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Richard Schmidbauer - he/him - Artdirector at @SkywardAssembly, Indiedev, Freelance Artist and Art Director, 3D art, environment art tech art and pixelart. I love horror, scifi, pop culture, nature, mystery, art and ruins among many other things. No AI

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Since it's ~Spooky Season~ I might as well share some of my spooky artwork!

Doing art with a low palette color count is always a challenge, but it's kinda soothing as well. Also >>> pink rules

#spooky #halloween #horror #darkart #pixelart #skeleton
October 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Just rediscovered this 1Bit top-down Zelda like RPG mockup I did a while ago. It's called "Morguetown" and thought to be a weird mashup of a post death western where you play a skeleton undertaker that has to save the city from... idk yet..

#1bit #pixelart #mockup #gamedev #indiedev
October 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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"A solemn gate adorned with signs of foreign tone and light. Drawn to it, slowly made my way, felt glass and iron cut my skin, my spilling blood a sacrifice to all the horrors kept within."

Full art and process vid > www.artstation.com/artwork/qJmnXn

#illustration #environmentart #horror #occult
October 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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I sometimes loose track of what it was that brought me into #gamedev. For me it was building games from scratch, with #pen #paper and #imagination.

Brought some stuff to family vacation. Designing a dungeon deck with my kids. :D

#gamedesign #gameart #analog
September 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I am a big fan of horror movies and especially the pulp horror movies of yore. The movie posters of those hold a special place in my heart. This is a faux movie poster as a little fun hommage to the genre!

>>> Artstation bit.ly/4kJ5XxU

#horror #pulp #popculture #fiction #movieposter #design
June 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Death Crusader ---+

A relentless carcass bound to armor by heretic ecclesiarchy. A creature like this usually heralds worse thinkgs that follow in the wake.

#pixelart #fantasy #creature #creaturedesign
May 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Trying to push PixelComposer 3D features as far as I can. Worked on 3D style lowres pixelart radar displays for -/%$$$%.df. Not sure why my PC responded so strangely today. Something felt off ...

#pixelart #3D #procgen #indiedev #gamedev
April 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Inner Oculus is finished. There is a second layer for the outer bulge. It was quite the challenge to create a fully procedural eye texture

Textures done in Substance3D Designer, Modeling in Blender.

#procgen #gamedev #3DDesign #Blender #Substance #SubstanceDesigner #gamedev #indiedev
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Scatter Splines on Splines is opening up a ton of possibilities in Substance Designer I have long been waiting for. Designing proper ocular blood vessel patterns for example XD

Also debuging these is strangely calming.

#substance #substanceDesigner #procgen #texturing #3D #gamedev
April 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Just made a more useful Cartesian to Polar node for Substance Designer. I kinda got frustrated by the built in mode and I really wanted to make circular pattens better without using scatter circular (as it has it's own problems).

#substance #substancedesigner #procgen #tools
April 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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I love pixelart explosions. Always did. Really glad that I can do a bunch of them now for m ewr32tg2rt ------,,,,,,,n..'*ÖÄ

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#pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #metalVector
March 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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I'm a big Minecraft fan myself... so I decided to make a creeper themed vintage style poster for my kids ^^

#minecraft #creeper #poster #vintage
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Starting the year off with a three part series about my thought on AI (LLMs) and the entertainment industry. It's a critical take on the matter but hopefully worth the read! Let me know your thoughts.

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January 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Hey! I'm Richard Schmidbauer, Freelance Artist and Art Director from Germany. I do lot's of stuff including illustration, pixelart, 3D and tech-art. Let me know if I can help ^^

#pixelart #illustration #gameart #art-direction #3D #gamedev #indiedev
January 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Missing so many birthdays cause I'm abstaining from socials as much as possible. So this year for my birthday, to everyone whose birthday I missed Happy Birthday!

To celebrate I made an artwork for us all. With all skull and occultstuff y'all like ^^'

#pixelart #occult #birthday #skull #neon
January 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Happy Holidays and a happy new year to you all! here's a favourite pixelart piece of mine. I love christmas and I wish everyone the best!

#pixelart #christmas #occult #illustration #darkart #xmas
December 24, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Had fun sketching up this lil' mage guy.

#pixelart #1bit #monochrome #mage #pixel-art #gamedev #indiedev
December 10, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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More 1bit because why not ^^

Undead Crawler

#pixelart #1bit #fantasy #illustration #gamedev #indiedev #monochrome
December 5, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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You can't slide through the week without some pixelart, can you. I know I can't myself! Here's some of my creature ideas with some minimalist UI on top.

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #1bit #gameart #conceptart #retro #gaming
December 3, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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Store plug before Christmas. If you want to enjoy Christmas in stylish Cyberpunk/Techwear style, look no further. I've got a new shirt up on my stores AND it's proper christmas themed.

linktr.ee/visionvortex0

#christmas #apparel #christmassweater #techwear #cyberpunk #fashion
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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“Folks were calling her witch. Couldn’t be further. She’s been bound to the aspect of lower void long ago. No magic involved, just will.“

#pixelart #1bit #characterart #characterdesign #pixel-art #blackandwhite #monochrome #digitalart #visionvortex #TheHaze #monochrome #retrostyle
December 1, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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@gameengines.bsky.social
I would like Unity, Godot, Construct please!
November 30, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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If you are looking for some alternative greeting cards for christmas... some with a lot of pixelart actually... I just updated my store on redbubble and will probably add another card these days :D

www.redbubble.com/people/visio...

#pixelart #christmas #xmas #greetingcards #gamedev #indiedev
November 28, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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At some point I need to make this an actual game ^^ But first things first... got some work to do on our current projects. But I still love the style and the ideas the mockup is giving me.

#pixelart #gamedev #mockup #gamemockup #adventure #action
November 22, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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This is so important. I have explained it multiple times to clients over the years ^^
cyangmou.bsky.social Thomas Feichtmeir @cyangmou.bsky.social · Nov 20
So many new active people on bluesky! Amazing!

I have a gameart/pixelart tutorial gallery on Ko-Fi.
ko-fi.com/cyangmou
Follow to get e-mail updates.

It's also the hub for tutorials I create with @akjarosz.bsky.social for " #Pixelart for beginners"
Follow her too!

#arttutorial #art #gamedev
November 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM