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Jove
@joves-techart.bsky.social
Big Swedish goofball (like 6.5) making games, restoring win XP era computers, building robots & other artstuff <3
https://www.artstation.com/jove
https://www.youtube.com/@Joves_TechArt/featured
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After 20+ years of making art for games I find that the most satisfying thing about making something solely for yourself is that no one stops you, and tells you "hey that detail is unnecessary" or "No one in their right mind would notice this". Fuck it, biceps goes brrrr #blender #gamedev #indiegame
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Spent an hour and a half goofing around with a head for that knight model I've been working on

God, I really wanna make a game at these specs
October 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Finally got a bit of time on my hands this weekend so I've started working on some breathers for my skelly-person :D
October 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Managed to get the low poly muscle mesh and skelly each down to about 3.4K triangles.

The outer layer will sit at ~4K and then I'll use ~2K or so for the internal stuff which should put the total at ~15K tris, leaving some room for clothes and hair before I hit 20K 🤔 #blender #gamedev #indiedev
August 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Slowly making progress on my personal project, started rigging the low poly musculature mesh the other day 😤 #Blender #gamedev #indiedev
August 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hmm... kind of makes it look like the skeleton is wearing flesh mittens 🤔 #Blender #indiedev
July 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
After 20+ years of making art for games I find that the most satisfying thing about making something solely for yourself is that no one stops you, and tells you "hey that detail is unnecessary" or "No one in their right mind would notice this". Fuck it, biceps goes brrrr #blender #gamedev #indiegame
July 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Started splitting up my high poly #3D muscle mesh today, arms first 💪 #Blender
July 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I guess it would be silly not to point out, in these turbulent political times, that you can roleplay as president or prime minister in my game Democracy 4, which is in the steam sale right now omg! store.steampowered.com/app/1410710/...
Save 70% on Democracy 4 on Steam
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to ret...
store.steampowered.com
July 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
High poly #3D muscle mesh is mostly done, started experimenting with procedural materials based on dynamic thickness, curvature and cavity maps done via Geometry Nodes in #Blender.
July 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Here we gooo! (remember to KEEP VOTING my fellow EU folks if you still haven't since any erroneous, duplicate or straight up illegal votes will bring the numbers down.) #StopKillingGames
July 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
July 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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There is a pro-consumer rights movement for gaming right now called #StopKillingGames. It is currently try to pass an initiative to ensure that games that you pay for cannot be rendered completely unplayable after being sold to you, please consider supporting it.
July 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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The EU Initiative from #StopKillingGames is now over 2/3 of the required signatures! 677k at the typing of this post. Let's make history!

Can you think of someone who hasn't signed yet? Show them this link: eci.ec.europa.eu/045...

Everbody you know signed already? Tell them to spread the link!
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
June 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Either you keep what you buy, or you're informed upfront when access to what you buy ends.

There is no in between.

#stopkillinggames
July 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
A bit longer video about the #StopKillingGames campaign from the perspective of a software developer that raises some good points: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAVN...
Game Preservation Crisis: The Stop Killing Games Movement Explained
YouTube video by OliveBadger
www.youtube.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
If you are in the EU please spare 4 minutes to check out this short video about the #StopKillingGames campaign ❤️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zblB...
Stop Killing Games PSA
YouTube video by DesignerDave
www.youtube.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I ended up doing a simple normal map bake to add some detailing in the form of muscle fibers rather then sculpting the whole thing. #blender #gamedev
June 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Muscle mesh is slowly getting there, after that I just need to setup a layer for fat deposits, possibly a layer for major arteries as well 🤔
June 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Traditional tattoo design from last year that I cleaned up and detailed a bit on my good old Cintiq 21UX the other day ☠️
June 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Going slightly mad in #Blender
June 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Once upon a time I designed a concept for my ideal art store.

I then design a series of different shops around this idea and made them available as prints in my online store.

Art Store, Coffee House, Bakery and Pub.

www.dereklaufman.com/shop

Which one would you visit?
November 24, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Aaand some color, big fan of my new markers ♡ #art
November 10, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Now I just need to slap some colors on this thing 😤 #art
November 10, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Doodelidiii-doodelodooo
November 9, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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Tending to a Memory
October 28, 2024 at 5:32 PM