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Nick Carver
@nickcarver.bsky.social
5.9K followers 500 following 440 posts
Artist & developer making a cool thing with cool people. Prev: Riot, Blizzard, Epic, Heart Machine, Phoenix Labs, Wildlife, FRD.
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hey #PortfolioDay
I do concepts, assets, art direction and real-time look dev for games &animation.
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hey #PortfolioDay
I do concepts, assets, art direction and real-time look dev for games &animation.
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Sarah M 🌈🍉🌻 @braverobynart.bsky.social · 18h
Hi hello #portfolioDay! Im Sarah, a snr concept artist in games, indi Dev, freelance #cartographer & #TTRPG designer from Scotland. I love being an artist and over the last 15 years I’ve worked on projects like #DeathsDoor, #SpyroReignited, Possessor(s), Campaign Builder: Cities & Towns & more!
A shipwreck on a mountain top, with a Japanese-style noodle bar inside. Secret area of deaths door. a ruined templed inside a cave covered in snow. Exterior and interior concepts for an old rundown bar with stained glass. Inside is a smokie dive with lots of plants and hanging cages for different creatures. Flooded street with a character skating over the water, ruined buildings and tech to either side of the street. Large trees grow through old buildings.
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 4d
I saw the final 30 minutes of Laputa on UK tv in the 80s and had no clue what it was. They never showed it again and it was 10 years until I managed to get a fansub copy of that magical movie about a castle in the sky. The fansubber filled up the tape with 3 eps of Escaflowne too - good times!
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 4d
Something I love that was especially precious pre-widespread internet adoption is moments where you got into some kind of important books/ movies/ music/ art in general that was otherwise unavailable from you. Like a friend who made you That One Mixtape, your random video rental one time, etc
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 6d
Bloodborne and Silent Hill: two of the greatest games of all time and also two of the foggiest - Coincidence?!?!
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 6d
Go whole hog, like fog in a bog that's surrounded by smog.
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 6d
Gamedev tip: If in doubt, fill it full of fog.
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Thomas Scholes @scholes.bsky.social · 6d
the saga continues;
- small room tests, borrowing prop textures for walls and floors, etc
- exploring another watercolor painting, now a kit
- back to the first room, exploring greater realism
- restart, greater UX focus but still seeking the spontaneous
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 9d
Fallen Angels (1995) - amazing cinematography and lighting by Christopher Doyle:
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Heather Penn @heatpenn.bsky.social · 9d
more level blockouts! #blocktober
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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 11d
terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.
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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · Aug 13
hire me! I know what I'm doing 😊
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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · Aug 13
Here's Archery, Badminton, and 100meters.

I made this in 4 weeks. Handled everything from code to character design, from background art to animations to gameplay. It was a promotional sports game for a big advertising agency.
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Avelynmyre @avelynmyre.bsky.social · Sep 9
Some Avelynmyre (aka "Aves") OC ref sheets and early devlopment sketches. She's gone through lots of iterations!
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 15d
Digging through some reference folders I found this photo of my son from years ago on Cleeve Hill.
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 16d
Wait 20 minutes to get into an online-only game that most people play without interacting (or wanting to interact) with a single other player... Modern gaming is stupid.
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 17d
Also, this ghoul is 81?!? How many blood boys does he have? 😂
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 17d
We've only ever been useful as customers or workers to these 'visionaries'. Now that technology is reaching a point where neither is a requirement for their continued wealth and power, they can quietly drop the promises of a tech utopia and instead concentrate on surveillance and containment. Yay.
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 19d
Something new for family board game night!
Creepy 1930s boardgame called Physogs where you have to place the correct facial features in each head. Creepy 1930s boardgame called Physogs where you have to place the correct facial features in each head. Creepy 1930s boardgame called Physogs where you have to place the correct facial features in each head.
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Katherine Lam @katherinelam.bsky.social · 21d
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Nick Carver @nickcarver.bsky.social · 22d
Me last night trying to explain why I'm watching The Great Waldo Pepper to my kids: 'It's about barnstormers in the 1920s! Robert Redford flew the planes and did his own stunts - including wing-walking!'
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Ladon Alex @ladonalex.bsky.social · Dec 17
camo
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SQUIDDY DOG @bigsquidman.bsky.social · Apr 11
Gas grab!
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 22d
Fungus Researchers
Ink drawing, a pair of fungus researchers up a tree
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