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Belden Pham
@calvlath.bsky.social
Animator (contract) @ Blizzard Entertainment

Prev. Dauntless, Fae Farm, Ubisoft Montreal, Mercury Filmworks.
Portfolio: https://www.beldenp-art.com/
Personal stuff

Vail Ripper by Kiel Figgins
September 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Tennocon's art and animation panel is dope, but I love love love that they showed their thumbnail passes for both gameplay and cinematics. Sooooo coooooool!!

Also the BTS on the Yareli Prime trailer was peak. Best girl energy for everyone.
July 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The big day is finally here: www.ThisWeekinVideogames.com is officially live! It's 100% ad-free and you can sign up for free to get access to our news, reviews and previews, or become a supporter to get more exclusive content.
www.ThisWeekinVideogames.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Today is my birthday! I just got laid off! 😆🎉 Anyway here is my work. lungjaw.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Painted my xiv character again yipeeee

#ffxiv
June 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Emet-Selch was one of the characters I was especially proud to work on for the set. One of the greatest «villains » with a fantastic character building. So I paid a lot of attention to his pose and expression here.
#MTG #MTGxFinalFantasy #FFXIV
May 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Stoked to be starting as a contract animator @ blizzard entertainment at the end of April! yipEE
April 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Hello #PortfolioDay!! I'm Nat, an animator in the games industry! Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate has launched so I can share a snippet of some of the animations I worked on during my time as Animation Lead and Motion Capture Director.
We animated in MotionBuilder and Unreal Engine 5 🥸
April 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
youtu.be/N17wHsoHiG0?...

I made a short video detailing gameplay animation, along with some responsibilities you could expect on the job.

The hope is to help shed light on some aspects of the role, as well as help newcomers have insight into how to gear their work for an application.

#animation
Gameplay Animation: An Overview
YouTube video by Calvlath
youtu.be
April 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Updated my demo reel as a birthday gift to myself :) enjoy!
April 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Good talk at the game career seminar about working as a foreigner in Japan - I asked them to be honest about salaries in tokyo, and they did it! Including some cost of living comparison
March 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
derust derust derust

#animation
March 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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My job at Netflix has not been renewed for another season, along with many incredible colleagues at Night School. The day I found out I got this job was one of the best days of my life, and it’s devastating to see it come to such a sudden end.

If anyone needs a game designer, let me know 💔
January 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Crushed to hear that the other shoe has dropped on Phoenix Labs today. Thinking back over the end of an era with a great team and wanting to celebrate some of the great work we did together

www.nicholaskole.art/projectdragon
January 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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this is a project I've been working on off-and-on for a little over a year. please view the youtube mirror for full credits -- lots of people were kind enough to lend their skills for this project
youtu.be/o643ntm3-p8
December 15, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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five seven reload
December 6, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Dauntless Awakening reel!

Probably about time I post my stuff here anyway, twitter is exhausting these days.

#animation
December 5, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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📌✨Pinned Post✨📌

I am an Associate Art Director working in R&D at Riot Games. I like to chat about #gamedev and animation.

I've got lots of ways to keep in touch, but you can always catch me weekly on @dlchypetrain.bsky.social and the #DLCbookclub.

❤️🎮
linktr.ee/latienie
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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Another sword unsheathing ⚔️
November 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Maybe we were too hard on JJ Abrams for "Somehow Palpatine returned."
November 6, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Another day in the life of me being an environment artist 😔 #gamedev
October 22, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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This little guy is from Moss 2. He’s based on a dung beetle. He pushes his rolling cannon around, mounts, and fires it.

I’d animate the bug itself moving. But the way the cannon reacts is nearly 100% generated using my spatial tools. Primarily the physics and aim tools. He was so easy to animate!
October 22, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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Hi everyone! Posting here too: I’ve been affected by this week’s layoffs at Riot and am looking for work !

I have over six years of experience animating for video games and have worked in Unity, Unreal, and Riot’s Proprietary Engine.
Some credits: League, Oxenfree II, Kena, Foglands
Aharonit.com
October 17, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Batman vs Cylinder
October 18, 2024 at 1:49 PM