Variamech
@Variamech

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท lives in ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ. Character, Hard Surface artist. GameDev wannabe. No AI. Personal growth over empty results.

 Metro Vancouver - BC - Canada
artstation.com/variamech
Joined October 2021
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Variamech
@Variamech
Apr 21
Some updates to my game project. Gameplay - Started blocking out a Wall Ride and Wall Jump mechanic, the wall ride fells good, the Wall Jump is very janky. Camera movement and shooting while wallriding feels horrible. More polished version will follow. Lighting - I dumped Lumen and started using whatever non Lumen thing Unreal used before. Lighting got visibly worse (my fault not the engine), but no more pixel flickering on far objects and big performance gains. A bit more practice and I'll get better looking frames. Cheers!
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Lem@lem00001
Oct 29
Cutthroat competition on the streets of Night City
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Chinese people breaking containment is one the few good things happened this year. They are so unhinged its like we found a lost twin.
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It also confirms for me what I already knew, ai is meant to create cheap slop for the masses while the rich still get to enjoy fine high art, luxury, and craftsmanship
ye jhooth hai mai iska khandan karti hu@mushhpit
Oct 27
Hermรจs, Ralph Lauren and now Prada using real artists in their campaigns and taking the extra measure of mentioning so in the caption is an upstream indicator that the authorities of luxury (read: high craftsmanship) at large decide to not let it be marred or cheapened by AI.
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"What is mine is mine what is your is ours." EVERY FUCKING TIME. We fucking called it. If they want to put the genie back in the bottle, fine. But everything they did so far is free game, they made this bed now sleep in it.
Kotaku
@Kotaku
Oct 26
Microsoft And Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft kotaku.com/now-that-the-shoeโ€ฆ kotaku.com/now-that-the-shoeโ€ฆ
Community note
This article's title is sarcastic. It describes Microsoft and Epic's recent takedowns of AI-assisted ports of their games. Neither company has changed its overall stance on AI. x.com/TimSweeneyEpic
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Crateria ~ The Space Pirates Appear | Super Metroid
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Due to inflation I'm downgrading from ADHD to AD720p with ads
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VideoArtGame
@VideoArtGame
Oct 24
Pixel art | Super Metroid - Draygon Artist: @Moonshen_Twitt
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Bagus Mars@bgsmars
Oct 20
update on Motoko kusanagi focuses a lot on overlapping and layering, it all makes sense now
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this gif man...
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ValC // Comms open!@VALC_6
Oct 16
This is the gaming equivalent of a cancer screening coming back negative
IGN
@IGN
Oct 16
The Cyberpunk 2077 movie won't be a 1:1 adaptation of the game, instead telling a new story within the same universe. bit.ly/4B4Zxm5
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1/2 I'm very proud to announce today we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Metroid Database's online existence! We are older than Google! October 16 1996 - October 16 2026. HUGE thanks to @xuuikie for creating our new banner art.
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Happy B-Day to me! ๐Ÿ–ค So letโ€™s make a deal - if this caught your attention, you press follow
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Loull_Aroll
@loull_aroll
Oct 15
Traditional Chinese subtitle added to my Metahuman class~ Coloso ่ชฒ็จ‹้ซ˜ๅ“่ณชไธญๆ–‡ๅญ—ๅน•ๆ›ดๆ–ฐ๏ผ๐Ÿ“ข ไปŠๅคฉๆƒณๅˆ†ไบซไธ€ๅ€‹ๅฅฝๆถˆๆฏ๏ผ ๆ„Ÿ่ฌๅคงๅฎถๅฐๆˆ‘ๅœจ Coloso ่ชฒ็จ‹็š„ๆ”ฏๆŒ๏ผŒ่ชฒ็จ‹ๅปฃๅ—้Ÿ“ๅœ‹ใ€ๆญ็พŽๅŠ่ฏ่ชžๅœˆๅญธๅ“กๅ€‘็š„ๅ–œๆ„›ใ€‚ ็‚บไบ†ๆ›ดๅฅฝ็š„ๅญธ็ฟ’้ซ”้ฉ—๏ผŒColoso ๅœ˜้šŠ็ฒพๅฟƒๆๅ‡็นไธญๅญ—ๅน•็š„ๅ“่ณช ย ใ€‚ 30ๅคฉ๏ผŒไธ€่ตทๅฏฆ็พๅฏๅœจ้Šๆˆฒๆ“ไฝœ็š„MetaHuman๏ผ ๐Ÿ‘‰bit.ly/3VgQMF2 #coloso #3dart #unrealengine #ue5 #metahuman #charactermodeling #characterdesign #3dcharacter #loull_aroll #gameready #playablecharacter #onlineclass
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Marc Brunet
@ytartschool
Oct 15
Bye bye Photoshop. Never using you again! Check out this video on unique @MokoCreate features: youtu.be/hv6N9qE1yus Some of these still blow my mind.
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Brazil spent the 30 years fucking its game industry with bureaucracy, high taxes and shit education. But now they will create meager grants to select devs. Both the right and left parties are losing their minds trying to get credit. Pathetic. Brazillians devs are talented already. We don't need help, we need you parasites to fuck off.
Rรฉpublique
@republiqueBRA
Oct 14
๐ŸŽฎ ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Lula assina decreto que regulamenta o Marco Legal dos Jogos Eletrรดnicos, permitindo que produtores acessem recursos da Lei Rouanet Games, da Lei do Audiovisual e do Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual; a medida tambรฉm cria a Game Brasil, uma plataforma pรบblica para catalogar e promover jogos nacionais, com investimento inicial previsto de R$ 1,4 milhรฃo.
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The aim is to sell tokens instead of quality games. A well designed finished game is rare and make way less money than selling AI tokens and garbage assets to devs who might never ship anything. Epic current model is too generous, you need to actually ship so they can make money. The new model is keep devs constantly spending money.
Tim Sweeney
@TimSweeneyEpic
Oct 12
We have a huge pivot underway here at Epic, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration. The aim isn't to do the same stuff with fewer people, but to enable everyone here to build MORE and BETTER stuff, and to bring the benefits to all teams using Unreal.
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szspagna
@szspagna
Oct 9
Replying to @ArtFacility
Why are we even arguing around this? Programming is creative problem solving, even if it isnโ€™t art. Itโ€™s personal labor and intellectual property. The person who engineered a solution deserves to benefit financially if a sizable portion of their intellectual contribution is used by some business. Pay people for their work. Art is not to be protected from AI just because itโ€™s art. Thatโ€™s just circular thinking some artists might participate in. Art like any profession should be protected alongside programmers because both used their minds to create something, and both deserve to profit from the fruits of their labor. AI steals that labor without compensation and then seeks to undercut the very people it was trained on without permission. This is different from tutorials and open source gifts to community members. Tutorials and open source were made with the understanding of a mutually beneficial exchange. The teachers pass knowledge to create good practices and create a community of competent professionals that might one day work besides them. Open source contributors gift their labor to fellow programmers under a similar social contract. AI companies have no such interest in this contract. They want to become the sole suppliers/gatekeepers of labor and knowledge work by making cheap automation replacements for labor. The intention is to steal from the people you plan to replace. There is no real end goal of collaboration or growing a professional community. This is no different than the current firms buying up individual medical practices and then establishing themselves as the only viable source of employment and labor supply of medical practitioners. The cost of medical services never goes down; they just shift whatever the medical workers were earning to the executive class. Thatโ€™s the end goal here and instead of artists and programmers being dumb and arguing over which job is special or has inherent dignity/social value, they should band together and push against this takeover of labor from the executive class.
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Technical Animation In Video Games second edition is finally here! ๐Ÿฅณ Copies are already landing in people's hands, and being able to hold a copy myself is truly magical! I hope the knowledge contained within helps you make something great - from my mind to your mind!
Matt Lakeแต€แดฌ@MattLakeTA
Sep 29
Technical Animation in Video Games returns for a second edition! Included are nearly 100 new pages, major rewrites and factors to update the text for the latest software versions, plus corrections, bug fixes, and rewrites throughout to communicate more info to you!
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critter
@BecomingCritter
Oct 6
1. atoms arenโ€™t fat 2. your mom is made of atoms
๐ŸพEneasz Brodski
@EneaszWrites
Oct 5
the "Hard Problem" in a nutshell: 1. atoms aren't conscious 2. humans are made of atoms 3. humans are conscious 4. so at least one of 1-3 must be false Panpsychists say #1 is false Dualists say #2 is false Illusionists say #3 is false Materialists say #4 is false
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Korvas@KorvasKolibri
Oct 5
Person named Yuri Stern being stern about the yuri of their game Bravo Kojima
#1 KLBR CONNOISSEUR๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ@dailyyakuzashi
Oct 5
oh dear I think I know the exact post that led to this decision
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