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Daniel Dimitrov 🌈

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Concept Artist @ Milky Tea ✨ Books, plants, historical fashion, video games 🌿 Opinions are my own He/Him https://linktr.ee/dandimitrovart

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Daniel Dimitrov 🌈 @dandimitrovart.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hey everyone!

I'm Daniel, a UK-based concept artist working in the games industry. I love designing fantasy characters and props. ✨️

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Mariana Noronha @noronhatastic.bsky.social · 21d

Callout sheet for the motorbike! :D This is the motorbike that the characters in my personal project make together.

It is a means of transportation that allows them to get to volcanos up close to facilitate collecting samples and monitoring its behaviour. >

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Janna Sophia 🏔️ @jannaphia.bsky.social · 27d

Until It Bleeds 🩸

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✨ Vash Taylor ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ Open For Work @deuxdel.bsky.social · 27d

As I reach the end of my backlog, I've opened a couple of commission slots for October!

ko-fi.com/vashtheartis...

a print screen of the commission types and their base prices. Sketch commissions, $50+. Half-body commissions, $100+. Full Colour illustrations $600+

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Salix Games @salixgames.bsky.social · 29d

👻 This one special day…. In aid of @specialeffect.org.uk Salix Games has written a one off super spooky TTRPG and along side @liquidcrimson.bsky.social we are bringing it LIVE to you on Twitch! Details below

Overdue Exorcism- 3rd October 2025 - 6pm to 10pm BST. Featuring Dave Jones, Kathryn Vinclaire, Kit Harrison and Billie Fulford-Brown with Natalie Winter as GM

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Seddidiot @seddidiot.bsky.social · 29d

Commission of a Harengon Cleric. Had a blast doing outfit redesign for this little guy :D

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Mariana Noronha @noronhatastic.bsky.social · Sep 19

Warrior Painters is teaming up with the lovely folks at Concept 101 to enjoy the warm Autumn colours in a joint Painting and Drawing meetup at Greenwich Park, London UK on Saturday 11th of October >>

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Milky Tea @milkyteastudios.bsky.social · Sep 17

We’re excited and grateful to be nominated for a TIGA Games Industry Awards in the Strategy genre! ✨
Huge thanks to everyone who’s supported our journey. This means a lot to our team!
Let’s keep making seriously playful games #milkyteastudios #indiegame #gritandvalor #gritandvalor1949

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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · Aug 25

Art time. One of my environment art scenes from 2018. “The Animal Shrine”.

I’ve got gifs of it’s making - lots of them - but we will have to wait for a gif integration first. In the meantime here are some screenshots.

#gameart #gamedev #art #UE4 #3D

A calligraphers hut. It’s made out of dark wood and has gold trims and orange lanterns. It’s lit from the front in a theatrical way. The steps leading to its entrance are wooden and little flat stones are paved before. The entrance has fortune scrolls to each side with Japanese writings.

Few wooden structures in Japanese shrine style. Lots of orange and yellow paper lanterns light up the place that looks like in early, dark morning. A path made out of mossy flat stones forks in two directions. Between is a lion statue with orange bamboo lights at its base.

The previously mentioned calligraphers hut. The camera now looks up close to its entrance and the Japanese fortune writings and scrolls are more obvious. They have golden trims. Inside one could peer into a little writing desk positioned in the middle of the room. Outside, to the right, are lots of green, tall, bamboo plants.

The entire shrine and scene overlooked. To the left is the calligraphers hut seen before. In the distance are the wooden structures on a few levels, where the lion statue sits. Closer to us, on the right, is a stone lantern with steps in a circle, going upwards. On the different levels of the steps are scattered tiny animal statues and lots of bamboo lights. They overflow the scene in a warm orange, in contrast with the green tree silhouettes and the blue fog way in the back of the scene.

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AR Sullivan @arsullivanart.bsky.social · Sep 4

you hear a constant ticking sound coming from #swordtember #3 -Automaton

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Aysha @ Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · Sep 5

Layoffs wreck studios. Institutional knowledge is SO valuable in the games industry. When you eventually replace that laid off employee, I don’t care if they’ve got 30 years of experience and dozens of games under their belt. They still have to learn the pipeline, the software, the systems.

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Ana Steiner @anasteiner.bsky.social · Sep 5

✨ I've just added some new prints to my store! ✨

www.inprnt.com/gallery/anas...

Also there's an extra 15% off right now! 🥳

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Daniel Dimitrov 🌈 @dandimitrovart.bsky.social · Sep 2

Swordtember Day 1 - Shell

#swordtember #swordtember2025

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Daniel Dimitrov 🌈 @dandimitrovart.bsky.social · Sep 5

Swordtember 2025 - Moss

#swordtember #swordtember2025

A stone sword with a leather handle covered with moss for swordtember 2025.

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Ana Steiner @anasteiner.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am currently available for freelance work!

I've got 15 years experience in the games industry and I can offer concept art / illustration / character, set or prop design / visual development / art direction!

🎨 www.anasteiner.com
✉️ [email protected]

Any reposts would be much appreciated! ❤️

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Paula Lucas @paulalucas.bsky.social · Sep 2

Welp, I've just found out that my role has been made redundant 🫠... So I will be looking for work!

If anyone is looking for a 2D/3D Generalist or Art Director for games (particularly specialising in stylised projects!) please shout! From concepts > modelling > animating thru to implementation 💛✨

Cute cartoon car brightly coloured and stylised with an ice cream on top of it

Still frame from a 3D stylised crow model, a non-humanoid vtuber from my own design.

Illustration piece of a dark woods, in greyscale.

Still image of a gif, of a stylised Bearded vulture in low-poly 3D. Designed, rigged, animated by myself.

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Daniel Dimitrov 🌈 @dandimitrovart.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you!

Daniel Dimitrov 🌈 @dandimitrovart.bsky.social · Sep 2

Swordtember Day 1 - Shell

#swordtember #swordtember2025

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · Sep 1

It’s now 6 months from when I was let go so any shares of that post is very much appreciated. ⬇️

Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · Aug 13

I have been in the industry 14 years now and have been part of 14 games and many of them and my personal work can be seen on my portfolio and I'm available for environment work in the UK, Here is some work for 4 of them titles.
#gamedev #3dart

www.artstation.com/pikminman

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · Aug 29

In 1933 the Nazi Party looted and destroyed the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sex Research) in Berlin, the first clinic for modern gender-affirmation surgeries in the world. The Institute's library and archives were publicly burned.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · Aug 27

US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

US government orders states to destroy trans education materials

The US government has ordered 46 states and territories to destroy education materials referencing trans people.

www.thepinknews.com

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Daniel Dimitrov 🌈 @dandimitrovart.bsky.social · Nov 4

Moon sword 🌙

I started this as a lil swordtember sketch but never got around to finishing it then. I guess better late than never 😅

#swordtember

Sun/Moon inspired sword design with golden details and blue/purple stained glass at the hilt.

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electriceve (ICantThinkEm) @electriceve.bsky.social · Aug 27

PINK MECH PINK MECH ☺️ what’s your favourite kind of camo?

it’s taken me a while to get some nice pics but here is my Grit & Valor mech painted up in a very me, historically inspired desert camo ^.^

always love a chance to paint a mech. so thank u to @milkyteastudios.bsky.social for sending this!

A walker mech from Grit and Valor painted in historically inspired pink desert camo

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Natalie Spitzel @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · Aug 25

I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but

I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated.

If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience.

thank you

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Daniel Dimitrov 🌈 @dandimitrovart.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm so sorry 😭

Daniel Dimitrov 🌈 @dandimitrovart.bsky.social · Aug 24

That's awesome, congratulations!!! ✨️

Daniel Dimitrov 🌈 @dandimitrovart.bsky.social · Aug 24

Went to the Wallace Collection yesterday

Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830)
Portrait of a Lady

David Roberts (1796 - 1864)
Lierre: Interior of Saint-Gommaire

Anthony van Dyck (1599 - 1641) Philippe Le Roy

Studio of Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
Portrait of a Lady