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Robert Rose

@robear.bsky.social

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3d artist working in games, and also on paleoart and scifi animation personal project stuff in my free time, he/him https://www.artstation.com/xiaorobear formerly https://twitter.com/RgroseA

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hey, I've still got this account on here- hope it becomes a proper twitter replacement, now that it allows video I think it should be a lot more appealing to animators. I'm gonna try to post the same mix of oscillating between mainly dino and scifi content and my own 3D art that I post elsewhere.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 7h

I seldom do but only because I'm old enough to have learned without them, and then when working was taught not to rely on them to keep models as software agnostic as possible, in case of programs not having them implemented the same. But I should use them more, they're not dangerous to use yourself.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 8h

Related, I also feel like the Helldivers 2 theme is a very worthy spiritual successor / cousin, just as the game's tone overall is.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5hC...

Helldivers 2 Main Theme - "A Cup Of Liber-Tea"

YouTube video by RogetMusic

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 16h

6 foot model, 6 inch shorts :D

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RJducats @rjducats.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, #PortfolioDay 🌿

I'm RJ, a 3D Artist with a love for stylised environments and props.

I'm still aiming to find my first break into the games industry though it has been a rough year.

Would deeply appreciate any guidance from fellow devs 💙

🌐 www.artstation.com/rjducats
✉️ [email protected]

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 1d

Random fun Death Note trivia- I recognize all of L's computer hardware, a fun authentic time capsule. He uses an Apple Studio Display monitor, Apple Optical Pro mouse, and PowerMac G4 MDD model, all authentically from ~2002ish. It is also mildly amusing that L is a Mac and Light is a PC.

A screencap from Death Note's anime (2006) showing L's back in front of a computer, monitor, mouse and keyboard on the ground.

A thin flatscreen fullscreen Apple monitor with curved clear plastic edges and legs from the early 2000s.

A photo of an Apple Optical Pro Mouse from the early 2000s. It was black inside of a thick clear plastic shell, and had a red light on the underside. It only had one mouse button iirc

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 1d

Tiny bit more progress again, made one of the greeble panels in the 'greeble pit.' Once I decide what specific section my little EVA-suited engineer will be standing on, I will have to upres that specific section even further, inventing more detail than was on the movie model for extreme closeup.

A render of a WIP, untextured 3D model of the top-rear section of a Miranda-class starship from Star Trek. There is one detailed panel in the middle of an otherwise undetailed recessed area.

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weisuo @weisuo.bsky.social · Mar 25

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Bonnie Branson @artbonnie.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, #PortfolioDay I'm Bonnie and I'm a BG artist working in animation. Clients include Nickelodeon, WB, Cartoon Network, Netflix and more! I’ll be available for full-time or freelance work in the spring of 2026. I’m interested in BG design/paint/vis dev work! 🌺

Web: artbonnie.com
Insta@artbonnie

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 1d

(Small addendum to this, it looks like Struzan's choice angle was also not original, and was based on a 1994 Tim Eldred illustration!)

A black and white illustration of two Preybird Starfighters, by Tim Eldred. The angle of both is exactly the same as Struzan's, and a full bird design is visible painted on the undersides.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 1d

I don't believe that's the case. It actually looks like Struzan's version was essentially a repaint of an illustration done several years earlier by Tim Eldred, that appeared in the 1994 Last Command Sourcebook.

A black and white illustration of two Preybird starfighters by Tim Eldred, published in 1994, from the exact same angle as Struzan's 1997 Spectre of the Past cover.

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Joanna Kobierska @joannakobierska.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay , I'm a 3d artist specializing in extinct fauna!

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 1d

Look at the wraparound artwork Struzan did for the Indiana Jones books in the early 90s, complete with hand-drawn titles and author blocks!

16 year old me would stand in a mall B. Dalton and could feel the thunder & hear the music with one of these books in my fat little white suburban hands.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 1d

I also like the patterning or paneling on the undersides being vaguely evocative of wing feathers (which I feel was a reference to Star Trek's Bird of Prey doing the same thing)

Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 1d

They are! You can see that the more recent digital illustration from a TTRPG that Wookieepedia uses pretty heavily referenced it too, since again that was the best illustration out there of one. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Preybir...

A cropped portion of an illustration of a Preybird by Mark Molnar for the Fantasy Flight Games RPG, Star Wars: Edge of the Empire, with the ship at the same angle as Struzan's '90s illustration.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 1d

A great thing about Struzan's Star Wars book covers was when his artwork continued across to the back cover. Here is an example where the back featured two "Preybird" starfighters, a ship which at the time I don't believe had any fully-rendered high quality artwork of it.

The full front and back cover to the Star Wars book "Specter of the Past," featuring a colorful, dark spacescape on the back and borders with two Preybird starfighters flying in front of planets and moons, and a collage of Luke, Leia, Han, and Borsk Fey'lya on the front cover in front of a celestial orange glow.

A close up crop of just the section of the illustration with the two Preybird starfighters

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 2d

I also one day will do one... probably after years worth of backlog WIPs though. :D

Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 2d

The '80s Star Wars Droids cartoon has some good designs in it. Here are a few.

Model sheet for an imperial droid that resembles a cross between an astromech droid and a probe droid, titled "SNIC QC-5 Unit"

Model sheet for a unique freighter that has some features in common with the GR-75 rebel transport, as well as an offset, Millennium Falcon-like cockpit that doubles as an escape pod.

Model sheet for a "Passenger Liner," a long narrow rounded ship.

A model sheet for a ship called the Argo Moon, which looks especially like a ship that could have been created as a kitbashed model.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 2d

I made a meme for my tiny hill

A meme following the "I sleep" vs "real shit" template, but with images of Luke Skywalker instead of the regular template, meditating on top and in Ben Solo's rage-filled memory from The Last Jedi. On the top, "I sleep" section, I have several things that are often unpopular with Star Wars fans- "retcons, midichlorians, sequels, special editions," and on the bottom I have "Anaxes War College System."

Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 2d

A great angle, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I call it a star dreadnought! (my very minor hill to die on)

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 3d

The Kiss

#paleoart #berensart2025

"fighting dinosaurs" fossil reimagined as The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 3d

Relevant, here was some Melee fan art I did back in the 2000s
#nintendo #fanart #melee #smash

A digitally colorized pencil drawing showing Mewtwo from Pokémon sitting floating in the air, eyes glowing, while Marth’s sword swings itself at Marth from Fire Emblem. Marth is drawn in a very cartoonish, stylized way.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 3d

Of course, of course. I respect them for trying out various approaches to adding more content, though!

Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 3d

My hot take: Smash Bros Brawl was better than Smash Ultimate.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 4d

Little bit more progress on the rear hull of the Miranda class. This is the total surface area that I need for my planned render- just have to detail the crap out of it (and do an equally detailed rollbar going overhead.

A 3D render of the rear top section of a Miranda class ship from Star Trek. Some parts are very detailed, with modeled panel lines. Other parts have no details at all. There are no textures yet, just solid colors.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 5d

Little bit more WIP progress