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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!!

@izzylizard.bsky.social

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Principal Animator at Giant Squid, working on Sword of the Sea! He/Him. Musician sometimes! Loves music, art, video games, dinos, dragons... Especially dragons 🐉 💙 My tags: #animation

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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · Aug 19

SWORD OF THE SEA IS OUT NOW!!!!

Giant Squid 🦑🎃 @giantsquidstudios.com · Aug 19

From the visionary artist behind #ABZÛ, #ThePathless, and #Journey comes a new adventure:

Sword of the Sea - OUT NOW 🌊

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Alexandria Neonakis @beavs.bsky.social · 7h

Lol my friggen dad. What a guy

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 2d

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 52m

Saaaame. I’ve just been so nostalgic lately for old computers and old internet. I wonder why? :/

Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 1h

Feed the machine, literally?

Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 1h

It’s always fun to revisit old music, if nothing else to appreciate how your skills have improved or tastes have changed. I give my old stuff a listen now and again, wish I had more time to make more.

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☆ Siplick! @siplick.art · 3d

Ballpoint pen experimental piece for Tenebrae #art #furry

Traditional half body illustration of an anthropomorphic dragon character breating fire.

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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 9h

Very much welcomed when we do see them 🐉💖

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Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊 @emilylorange.bsky.social · 11h

Reposting my hooded crow from this time last year because I love his little fall vibes.

(Ref photo by Akbar Nemati)
🦢🐡 #art #birds

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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you so much for all your hard work putting this out every year. It's one of my and my partner's favorite things to look forward to in October!

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Adam @adamgryu.bsky.social · 10h

It's that time of year... 🍂
🎃 The Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is BACK for 2025! 🎃

This year we can support up to 800 players at once in this seasonal pumpkin carving MMO!

This year's update comes with new areas and new secrets to find.

Hope you don't mind if I re-use the trailer from last year! 😅

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SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · 11h

i got to star in a LIVE-ACTION SEGA COMMERCIAL for one of my favorite video game series YAKUZA/LIKE A DRAGON, getting to wear these costumes was so surreal, you can watch the commercial here @sega-west.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ddV...

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Tobokegao @tobokegao.bsky.social · 11h

my personal favorite gameboy track 'Develop' sung by Teto Kasane SV and Jin-san! (thanks also to @sdhizumi.com for the mastering)

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KodamaSoft / KodamaSounds @kodamasoft.bsky.social · 20h

👾 ECLECTIC RESONANCE Memories 2 🌠

Together, our past will be made anew.
一緒に、過去を新たに生まれ変わらせる。

#M3秋2025 #M3秋

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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 1d

Blend looks really nice! Good camera makes such a huge difference.

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🦎galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 1d

not much, but i felt like setting up a little trigger system that blends between designated camera + spring arm settings

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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 1d

Some things are constant. May your unemployed status not be for much longer!

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Lindsey Wailes @linwail.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #portfolioday! I don't have anything new to post since NDAs exist, but I am looking for work again. Please reach out if you need an animator, thanks! ^-^
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Lindsey Wailes @linwail.bsky.social · May 8

Hey everyone! I am currently on the lookout for 3D Animator roles!

✨I have almost 5 years experience in the Games Industry
🎨Looking for Animation, Concept Art, QA, and other similar roles.
💼 Open to Remote or near Boston/Rhode Island

Thank you!
#animator #animation

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Jaron | Animator GameDev looking for Work @veritonsils.bsky.social · 2d

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Jaron, a Senior Gameplay Animator! I've worked on a wide variety of titles from Guild Wars 2, Call of Duty, Never Alone, Marvel's Avengers and Perfect Dark! I'm on the job hunt now, so if you're looking for someone who can make things move, I'm your guy!

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This is "JaronGittlemanDemoreel2025" by Jaron Gittleman on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 1d

I have absolutely no room in my apartment to even think about it, but I've been feeling an itch to mess around putting together a DOS or maybe up to Win95 era PC. Just been feeling really nostalgic for it lately, felt like computers were so much more personal then.

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Myriame・．🦂 @mllepilgrim.bsky.social · 1d

I've reposted many posts made by folks who were recently laid off from Heart Machine, but here is a thread that highlights them all.

I am also including folks who were previously laid off & are still looking for work. I will be linking their Bsky posts, as well as LinkedIn.

Please, share this. 🖤

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

"Tears of the Mountain", the 3rd 2025 graduation short from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Luke Ashworth, Yehor Bondarenko, Alp Kurdoğlu, Romane Talva and Ange Yajima.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...

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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 1d

All of this is so true. It’s been so hard to disentangle myself from feeling that way, but the last few years really helped to teach me better habits and make progress.

You can still have days where you slip up, but that’s okay too.

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🦇👻 Boo Li Khaw 👻🎃 @juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been working for 15 years as an animator and I can tell you without a doubt, the best fix I ever found for imposter syndrome is living a full life where your days and worth don’t hinge on whether or not you were a good animator today.

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 3d

Work/weekends should be inverted.

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🌾 bull 🌾 @xylographica.bsky.social · 3d

Oh hey, it’s indigenous peoples day!
I’m a reconnecting Cherokee artist working with digital art, printmaking, and clay sculpture and pottery (:

Shop + comm page [comms open now!]: ko-fi.com/xylographica

A digital painting of a person standing in front of a Mississippian-style shell gorget. The gorget features an incised design of a panther, which is sharing its head with the headless human figure. The person is pale skinned, wearing a ribbon shirt and clay beads, and holding a Cherokee style pottery bowl with an incised looped design.

A digital illustration done over a photo of a campfire showing an out of place, painted-looking wolf walking at the edge of the firelight, looking across the fire at the viewer. It is backed with a dull red and its breath is visible in a plume from its snout.

A clay raven incense burner, with its open beak pointed up and smoke coming out of it

A woodcut print in black ink depicting a coyote-headed person muzzling their own snarling decapitated head with a wire

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Joel Finney | Sword of the Sea NOW!!! @izzylizard.bsky.social · 7d

Haven’t kept up lately but I played the hell out of 2 and 3!