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feigndev.bsky.social
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@feigndev.bsky.social
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NSFW artist and game developer. Currently making Feign an open world fantasy crpg for adults.

www.patreon.com/slaen
Expect bugs, jank, and placeholder assets! I'm a solo indie dev and things take time but I'm moving as fast as I can.
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feigndev.bsky.social
Making the pickup mesh for the slime hood and 🤔 I'm tempted to rig and animate this by itself now. Maybe slimeball NPCs?

lol #indiedev #gameart #UE5 #gamedev
UE5 viewport screengrab showing a pink shiny sphere with very glossy plump purple lips from 3 different angles. It's in one of the test maps with a default generic sky and green grass plane in the background.
February 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Needed a quick break from environment work and made this slime hood. When I get the time I'll connect it into a status effect or cursed item that will trigger from a slime's attack scene.

#indiedev #gameart #UE5 #gamedev
UE5 screenshot of a player in a chainmail bikini, leather gloves, and a sword on their back, with a pink slime hood on their head. They're standing in a test level - a plane with a generic repeating grass texture and sort of a gray blue cloudy sky.
February 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
...and that's the last story critical room I need to light for the next build!

#indiedev #gameart #UE5 #gamedev
UE5 viewport screengrab. Another dimly lit cave. This time there's a rough path, almost stair like ascending in the center of the image. This path is lit by a couple of torches and wooden spikes. The top of the path isn't visible, blocked by a stone pillar but an ominous orange glow leads the player's eye to that goal. A few imps stand in tpose throughout the scene to give a sense of scale.
February 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Even more lighting work!
One of these days I need to do actual models and textures for all the props 😅 and some actual VFX work on the fire too.
Time to light the next room!

#indiedev #gameart #UE5 #gamedev
UE5 viewport screengrab of the same imp cave interior I've been working on for the last few weeks. This room is the kitchen / cooking area for the imps. Along the walls there's a lot of clutter of barrels, crates, tables, wood piles, and different pots and pans. In the center of the room is a lit fire with a cooking pot suspended over it. There are imp cooks in tpose at various points around the scene to give a sense of scale. The whole scene is dimly lit, in oranges and green blue and there's a lot of smoke / fog in the scene.
February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Back to lighting work. I should make dungeons with less rooms - then they'd be faster and easier to light.

#indiedev #gameart #UE5 #gamedev
UE5 in game screen grab. A dimly lit cave in oranges and pale blues. The cave is cluttered with barrels, crates, and a few bits of furniture. Imps standing in tpose are scattered throughout the scene to get a sense of scale.
February 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
PSA: For anyone doing shader / material stuff - Ben Cloward's stuff might be able to save you some time

www.youtube.com/watch?v=joAU...

This literally would've saved me a few hours 😅 and it was just two nodes that I needed to change.

The more you know 🌈✨

#indiegamedev
Post Process Action Lines - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 58
YouTube video by Ben Cloward
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January 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
feigndev.bsky.social
🌀 Yes, yes, don't try to fight it. That's it. You must ~Text Block~ my every command. 🌀

Super early WIP of 2d scene effects. The basics are working, now I just need to make it look good.

#indiedev #gamedev #UE5
UE5 in game screenshot. An imp in the center of the image looks up and to the left at the player character. The are set against a gray checkerbox background. There is a bunch of 2d UI stuff going on. There's a dialogue window along the bottom of the screen that reads "It- it's moving! What's-". There's a dialogue button on the middle right that reads "Continue". Then over the entire screen there's a light faint swirl patter and in the center of the screen in dim lettering it reads "Text Block". lol #hypno
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Oh you know, just uh, animating some stuff.
Mildly suggestive NSFW - very much a WIP
January 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Early morning, coffee, music, and a whole pile of animation work. The indiedev fever dream. Let's go.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSxO...
Tool Live Sacramento 1998 [Remastered]
YouTube video by ToolArchive
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January 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Ok, here's a super quick and dirty tutorial for painting stylized textures for 3d models. Think Wayfinder, Overwatch, League, etc.

#gameart #tutorial #indiedev #3dart

1/10
Maya viewport showing some flatly lit textures in shades of gold applied to a gray model super imposed over the texture sheet for the 3d model. There is some horrible bright green text reading: Stylized texturing tutorial quick + dirty graphic design == my passion
January 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Imp chef textures done!
Gonna hop back to the imp scene animations now.

#indiedev #gameart #UE5 #gamedev
UE5 in game screengrab. Showing the imp chef outfit from 3 angles a front left 3 quarters, front right 3 quarters, and back 3 quarters. The outfit is a floppy chefs hat, grungy apron, leather pants, rope belt, and leather metal studded bracers.
January 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Monday morning... 😴
But the low poly and the bakes are done for the chef outfit! Time to paint.
Maya viewport screengrab. Showing the imp chef outfit, where he's wearing a chef's hat, apron, tied with a rope belt, and bracers from 3 angles front, side, and back. The outfit has normals and occlusion applied.
January 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
New "equip" animation for the starfish parasite. Still wip but I think the idea is there.
January 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Imp chef! Older sculpt that I wanted to touch up and get in game.
Zbrush viewport screengrab. 3 views of a 3d sculpt front 3 quarters, side, and back 3 quarters. It's a chef outfit for the imp character complete with chef hat, apron, rope belt, and of course spiked forearm bracers. He's in shades of brown in front of a gray gradient background.
January 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Quick and dirty setup for the imp's head to track player location but it's working enough for now. Just using socket locations set by a dialogue trigger.

#indiedev #UE5 #gamedev
January 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
One more cave room lit!
I'm going to mess with some imp animation blueprint and scripting stuff today and hopefully start getting the guard scene put together.

#indiedev #gameart #UE5 #gamedev
A dimly lit cave interior mostly in shades of blue and orange. Wooden braces support the cave wall and ceiling. A makeshift barricade / gate using barrels, rope, and wood scrap is in the middle of the image lit by 2 torches. Roots hang from the ceiling. A few mushrooms are scattered along the sides of the cave. 3 imp models stand in t-pose at various points to give a sense of scale.
January 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Textures! and ready to rig. I should do a polish pass and get stuff to pop some more but this is mostly a background NPC outfit and I still have one more outfit I'd like to get done for this next build.

#indiedev #gameart #UE5 #gamedev
Unreal engine 5 viewport screengrab of the imp merchant outfit textured. Pretty much everything is shades of grungy brown and worn. The model is shown from 3 angles front 3 quarters, side, and back 3 quarters.
January 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Got the bakes done. Got freshly brewed coffee. Time to paint textures.
A maya viewport screengrab of the 3d imp merchant outfit model shown from 3 angles front, side, and back. The anatomy has a dark gray shiny blinn applied, and the outfit mesh a normal map and occlusion pass applied with a lambert and is shades of dark gray to white. The outfit itself is a ragged vest, pants, and boots, with a large shackle around the characters neck, left wrist, and left ankle.
January 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Happy New Year everyone!

I'm back to work and just finished up the retopology on the imp merchant outfit. Gonna make some coffee and do some bakes.
Maya 3d viewport and UV editor. In the viewport are 2 meshes in 3 quarters view. It's the low poly retopologized mesh of the imp quartermaster from a few posts previous. One mesh has a black and white checker pattern applied to check for texel density. The other is showing the wireframe highlighted in white and green. The UV editor is showing the current UV layout of the mesh from the 3d viewport.
January 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
One cave room mostly done! Only like 8 more? Then the connecting hallways of course. Lol, no problemo.

#indiedev #gamedev #UE5
A dimly lit cave interior shown in Unreal Engine 5. Furniture, barrels, and crates are scattered and piled on the sides of the room. 3 imp models stand in tpose around the room for a sense of scale. At the back of the cave a deeper tunnel entrance can be seen and is highlighted in a warm orange light.
December 20, 2024 at 9:42 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Textures!
Purple pants!!!
Gonna go and throw some weights on this and get it in game.

#indiedev #gamedev #3dart #gameart
Unreal Engine 5 in game screenshot of an imp. He's wearing a mostly leather outfit with a corset, purple pants, cuffed big steel toe boots and leather bracers. There are pyramid shaped metal studs on pants, corset, and left bracer. He has red skin, yellow eyes, and is standing in the same hastily lit void that I use for test lighting assets.
December 19, 2024 at 8:10 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Bakes are done! Time for more coffee and texturing. The joy of the simple things in life.

#gameart
Maya viewport screengrab. With low poly version of the imp boss outfit now with an occlusion and normals applied to the material.
December 18, 2024 at 2:59 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Imp boss outfit - retopology and UVs done!

#gameart
Maya viewport screengrab. Lots and lots of gray. On the left is a wireframe view of the lowpoly imp boss outfit. On the right is the UV layout for the outfit.
December 18, 2024 at 1:37 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Got some textures and materials on it! This one has been a lot of fun (I really really want to make an armor set). But I need to stay on task and do the quest scene this was made for.

#indiedev #gamedev #3dart
Unreal engine 5 viewport screengrab of the star creature now with textures. It's all slimy and shiny looking. The eye is a glowing yellow / red and one side is shade of dark purples, the other side is light pinks and blues.
December 16, 2024 at 7:22 PM
feigndev.bsky.social
Quick and dirty sculpt this is going to be for a helmet and possibly an armor set for the player.
Zbrush viewport screenshot of a starfish sort of looking creature. Shown from a 3 quarters front, side, and 3 quarters back angle. It has 6 arm tentacles, a large eye in the center of one side, and a circular orifice surrounded by 3 chunky teeth in the center of the opposite side. Each arm has a set of 3 suckers running down the center length of the arm.
December 16, 2024 at 1:25 AM