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Froyok (Léna Piquet)
@froyok.fr
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"For those who come after" - Gustave

Aka Lady Bloom. ☀️🇫🇷
Principal Product Manager on Substance 3D Painter. Stay up at night to fiddle with shader stuff.
- https://www.froyok.fr/
- https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@froyok
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Froyok (Léna Piquet) @froyok.fr · Nov 16
Hi ! 👋
I'm Froyok / Léna Piquet, and I'm a Principal Product Manager working on Substance Painter at Adobe since 2014.

In my spare time I used to play with the Unreal Engine, but now I work on own game engine called Ombre.

I also experiment with shaders and sometimes draw stuff.
Image of a military character jumping over a fence in an industrial complex demonstrating a custom lens-flare effect. Image of my game engine Ombre showing a series of pillars lit by a light. Pillars far away have a bokeh effect on top of them. Image of my game engine Ombre showing a structure in the middle of a gray room being reflected. A bright red light is visible in its center. The sky is light gray and gives a hazy atmosphere. Image of my game engine Ombre showing a light in the middle of Intel's Sponza scene. On the right is visible some interface elements from the editor.
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makkon.bsky.social
more shots
view of the right turret array by the entrance of the castle. several bridges capped by towers with holes for firing arrows are visible some towers in the back behind the keep, looking up at them from the ground. they don't serve any purpose other than looking nice. a closeup of the keep's upper exterior. it opens up into many rooms and windows visible from the outside, presumably feeling safe from enemy fire at this height
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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makkon.bsky.social
big gothic castle in quake from last year. didn't make it for any other reason than I was using it to make new textures and enjoying myself.
screenshot of a long stone bridge overshadowing a medieval town. the bridge has a gatehouse in the middle, which leads to the entrance of a castle the entrance to the castle. tall towers and turrets are scattered everywhere, it's an insane and dysfunctional layout mostly for showing off the implausibly large keep in the center of the castle. octogonal tower with turret towers in the corners that go up the whole length. a higher up view of the towers at the gate, with the massive keep visible in the back
October 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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cyangmou.bsky.social
"Isometric games don't exist" is a guide with 40 detailed charts about perspective in videogames.

It teaches you everything about isometry and what all the other game perspectives & projections are and how they work.

You can download it for free on my itch page
cyangmou.itch.io/isometric-ga...
February 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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lvl374.bsky.social
🌗halfmoon🌗

halfmoonは死後の世界に行く前の案内所が舞台の短編アドベンチャーゲームです
halfmoon is a short adventure game set in a reception office for the deceased, the final stop before the afterlife.
February 15, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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fabinou.bsky.social
How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate:
fabiensanglard.net/quake_asm_op...
How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate
fabiensanglard.net
February 15, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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xavierck.com
If you're in need of some character or tech art work, I'm now open for freelance once again

I've got a ton of experience ranging from mobile/VR specs all the way up to AAA cinematic work, so hit me up!
xavierck.com Xavier @xavierck.com · Jun 30
Hey!

Do you need a highly technical character artist with almost 15 years of individual contributor and leadership experience? Looking for someone to wrangle your shaders? Or perhaps you need a person to assemble your character art pipeline?

That's me!

🎨 www.xavierck.com
📫 xavierck.3d@gmail.com
A highly stylized 3D knight character wearing red and white armor and brandishing a huge water cooled sniper rifle A large red cel-shaded boss monster from the Dragon Prince: Xadia Roughly 30 different avatars I made for Creature Crew Mr. Negative and one of his goons from Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)
February 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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thekinsie.com
Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free.

...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legally Free and has the in-development community patch packed in for ongoing support. www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut...
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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cotronis.bsky.social
My cover for Steelborn by Taylor J. LaRue.
Book cover for Steelborn. Depicts a woman with red hair in side profile, wearing armor and resting a sword on her shoulder.
February 12, 2026 at 1:47 PM
froyok.fr
I'm currently debugging what seems like an Nvidia linux driver regression. My shadow volumes are broken in Ombre, either some faces are missing or the actual shadow output is a bit scrambled with vertices going to 0. 🤔
February 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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occultgames.bsky.social
First post on Bluesky 👋

I’ve been quietly building this game for years as a personal project and this past year I pushed some of the hardest tech yet:
✨ Infinite chunk streaming
💡 Per-voxel bounce lighting
⏳ Sand simulation

#gamedev #indiedev #voxel #procedural
February 12, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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dryad.technology
This object is a legitimate masterpiece of design
A yellow "caution wet floor" standee. The bottom is flared so it looks like a banana peel. Standee, deployed
February 8, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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spacemacchiato.bsky.social
A few more for ya
A fuzzy low-res game screenshot of a dark room. A hooded figure stands in the corner while you navigate your inventory. A fuzzy low-res game screenshot of a purple ufo that has crash-landed in a swamp. A fuzzy low-res game screenshot of a messy cabin interior. Think evil dead and David’s lair in Alien covenant. Also there’s a big fleshy flower in the corner. A fuzzy low-res game screenshot of an old cabin sinking into the darkness of a swamp.
February 4, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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liamwong.com
Edinburgh after dark
Photography by Liam Wong of Edinburgh at night in the fog. Warm brown colors over the old architecture of Edinburgh's old town: The Royal Mile. Many street lamps have a soft glow to them beyond the fog. The streets are cobbled. Photography by Liam Wong of Edinburgh at night in the fog. An old staircase leading upwards. Soft glow from the old street lamps light the way. Photography by Liam Wong of Edinburgh at night in the fog. An empty road: The Mound. Several street lamps light up the sky. Photography by Liam Wong of Edinburgh at night in the fog. An empty street scene with an old monument. A red traffic light appears on the right - nobody is there.
February 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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eteogames.bsky.social
How the grey, heavy skies of Half-Life 2 set the scene for a dystopian sci-fi tale: @konstantinosd.bsky.social pays homage to the work of Viktor Antonov in our first article on Skyboxes.

www.eteogames.com/skyboxes-des...
Designing Oppression in the Skies of Half-Life 2
How Half-Life 2 art director Viktor Antonov created skies that were vast, heavy, and deeply moving.
www.eteogames.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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froyok.fr
The recap of my third year of development on Ombre is finally available:
https://www.froyok.fr/blog/2025-11-ombre-dev-blog-3/
OMBRE Dev-Blog Year 3 | Froyok - Léna Piquet
It's November, which means it is time for another year long recap of the development of my own game engine. I'm a bit late compared to the anniversary date (November 5), but this year has been hectic ...
www.froyok.fr
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
froyok.fr
The recap of my third year of development on Ombre is finally available:
https://www.froyok.fr/blog/2025-11-ombre-dev-blog-3/
OMBRE Dev-Blog Year 3 | Froyok - Léna Piquet
It's November, which means it is time for another year long recap of the development of my own game engine. I'm a bit late compared to the anniversary date (November 5), but this year has been hectic ...
www.froyok.fr
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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dylanbrowne.bsky.social
Combining AccumulationDOF and my Lens Flares works well
February 3, 2026 at 11:07 AM
froyok.fr
"I made a real PS1 game in 1.5 months (Making of Yume Nikki PS)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsA2sQ-rThU
I made a real PS1 game in 1.5 months (Making of Yume Nikki PS)
In this video, you'll learn how I make PS1 games and how Yume Nikki PS (demo) was developed in just 1.5 months.Twitter: https://twitter.com/EliasDalerGame: h...
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February 3, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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jbikker.bsky.social
Marcin Zalewski informed me that his blog post on real-time hair rendering using ray tracing is now available:
mmzala.github.io/blog/hair-ge...
This is nice work, in which he compares NVidia's hardware accelerated hair to several alternatives, including Reshetov's Phantom Ray Hair Intersector.
February 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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juretriglav.bsky.social
New post on how to do real-time diffuse global illumination using surfels and #WebGPU: juretriglav.si/surfel-based... #threejs
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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xavierck.com
I had the pleasure of working with [REDACTED] on these 12 portraits over the last few months of 2025, and it was a fantastic technical and artistic challenge.

I have permission to talk about some of the technical process, so I'll post a bit about that below!
12 portraits of low poly characters with faceted shading and diffuse textures. Most of them are wearing business attire
February 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
froyok.fr
I have been running Kubuntu at work for a few months now (I'm on Manjaro at home).
Since I installed this machine my audio levels have been quite low (sometimes roughly at 50% despite the system reporting 100%).
Finally fixed it today, I can blast my ears and ignore my colleagues again ! 😄
February 2, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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dylanbrowne.bsky.social
Check out my quick look at the brand new production quality depth of field method added to UE5-Main over the weekend for Cinematics, AccumulationDOF, I am so excited about this and it works so damn well!

#UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #Cinematics #Cinematography #VFX #TechArt #Rendering
February 2, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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briankaris.bsky.social
I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...
Nanite Tessellation
Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...
graphicrants.blogspot.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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thegamebakers.com
Time to climb! Cairn is available now.

Mount Kami awaits, unconquered.

This is what you trained for: fight for every meter of the climb and rise to the challenge.
January 29, 2026 at 5:03 PM