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Pete Dimitrov
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Senior Environment Artist at Rebellion on Sniper Elite: Resistance & SE5. Posting lots of art and work-in-progress broken 3D meshes. He/Him
Creating Game Art educational videos at https://youtube.com/@petedimitrov
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Pete Dimitrov @petedimitrovart.com · Dec 15
Here is my #artvsartist2023 Top rows are new art (from one giant project). Then few of my older works below.
#gameart #gamedev #UE5 #art
Art vs artist 2023 collage that has 9 image in a square grid. In order: a blue crystal floating in the middle of a ruined room. A purple crystal seen in a close up zoom. A green crystal seen even closer up. It's shards are square and shiny. Another image showing a sci-fi crown with a blue gem that sits on an alien head. Then an image of the artist - me - a gym selfie, wearing a blue tshirt and holding a smartphone. Followed up is a picture of a vortex VFX on a gap in a floor. The next image is a Japanese style shrine that is build from wooden structures. The next picture is lots of bamboo orangle candles, from the same project. Final picture is a large portal gateway from a sci-fi project full of metal. All of the screenshots were taken in Unreal 5 and Unreal 4.
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Further diorama work. #art
A UE5 screenshot of a diorama. It's a blue background with a patch of grassy and muddy floor. On top of that sits a red portal and some floating blue crystals. To the side there is a tiny mountain of rock with some crystals in gray color.
January 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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Further diorama work. #art
A UE5 screenshot of a diorama. It's a blue background with a patch of grassy and muddy floor. On top of that sits a red portal and some floating blue crystals. To the side there is a tiny mountain of rock with some crystals in gray color.
January 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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I spent lots of my teenage years painting fantasy art, more than a decade ago now.
Game dev then was just a distant dream.
Past years, I made it into the industry, fully focused on 3D art.
Now, I hand paint textures for my stylized project, an invigorating feeling of those teenage days comes back.
January 10, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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I've been meaning to mess about with the photo mode in #Control for ages - it's such a great-looking game. I finally unlocked the expedition outfit (something I never managed in my original PS4 playthrough) so it seemed like as a good reason to do so as any.

#VirtualPhotography #JesseFaden
Screen capture from the Remedy game Control showing the protagonist Jesse Faden, a woman with swept-back red hair. standing in a dimly-lit cave with stark white walls a rust-red sand coating the floor. She is wearing a blue tactical uniform complete with webbing and holding a pistol. Screen capture from the Remedy game Control showing the protagonist Jesse Faden, a woman with swept-back red hair. standing in a dimly-lit cave with stark white walls a rust-red sand coating the floor. She is wearing a blue tactical uniform complete with webbing and holding a pistol. Screen capture from the Remedy game Control showing the protagonist Jesse Faden, a woman with swept-back red hair. standing in a dimly-lit room with stark lighting shining on her. She is wearing a blue tactical uniform complete with webbing and pointing a handgun toward the camera.
January 7, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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One day I will open Github Desktop and immediately start writing my commit title in the correct field, instead of the Filter field, but today is not that day.
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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Painting textures. #art
A screenshot of a stone gateway with golden trims. It sits on an empty, blue background. In the middle of the gateway there is a blue vortex. The same gateway seen as before, but this time around its vortex is red instead of blue. The prop also sits on scarcely painted grass and dirt textures. There is a mannequin showcasing the scale of the scene too.
January 5, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Painting textures. #art
A screenshot of a stone gateway with golden trims. It sits on an empty, blue background. In the middle of the gateway there is a blue vortex. The same gateway seen as before, but this time around its vortex is red instead of blue. The prop also sits on scarcely painted grass and dirt textures. There is a mannequin showcasing the scale of the scene too.
January 5, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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New video is out. Not a serious one, for a change.
It's a blooper compilation of all the wonders of being a game dev (overjoyed with silly bugs).

All blue screens are fictional, and no game engines were hurt in the making. youtu.be/RPWz9-GIspY
January 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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New video is out. Not a serious one, for a change.
It's a blooper compilation of all the wonders of being a game dev (overjoyed with silly bugs).

All blue screens are fictional, and no game engines were hurt in the making. youtu.be/RPWz9-GIspY
January 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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I took the result of my graph as a sketch, and on top I sketched another time to give me less busy, bigger and chunkier shapes.

Going to hand paint and render further next. #gamedev #gameart #texturing
A tiling texture sketch. It features different sizes of stones. Some are large and chevron in shape, while others are small. The colors are muted cold grays for the stone surfaces and warm gray for the soil under and around them.
January 2, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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I've stopped running Discord and Spotify on my desktop PC, and it's kind of bonkers how much better it runs now.

The random GPU crashes I thought were from games? Gone. File Explorer hanging up? Gone.
January 2, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Started sketching a stylized cobble path material last night.

Needs bit tweaks because it's overly noisy and I think the shapes are too small and busy, but it's fun.
A Substance Designer screenshot. Top shows a graph. Lower part shows a cobble material on warm gray soil.
December 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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This year was my first full year doing educational videos on YT.
We are sitting 100 subs away from 500 and any help to reach that would be appreciated!
Topic of videos is stylized art, 3D art and game dev in general. I also made a full tutorial course.

www.youtube.com/@PeteDimitrov
A 3 by 3 grid showing a total of 9 YouTube videos. Their thumbnail reveal stylized 3D art and portals in blue and red hues. Some of the thumbnails feature a person (me). There are logos of Unreal Engine 5 and Blender and some of the captions on the thumbnails read "Part 1 - 3D Model the Gate - Blender and UE5 Tutorial", "Making WoW Style Textures - Painter, UE5 and Blender Devlog", "What are Mipmaps in Game Engines?" and more.
December 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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This year was my first full year doing educational videos on YT.
We are sitting 100 subs away from 500 and any help to reach that would be appreciated!
Topic of videos is stylized art, 3D art and game dev in general. I also made a full tutorial course.

www.youtube.com/@PeteDimitrov
A 3 by 3 grid showing a total of 9 YouTube videos. Their thumbnail reveal stylized 3D art and portals in blue and red hues. Some of the thumbnails feature a person (me). There are logos of Unreal Engine 5 and Blender and some of the captions on the thumbnails read "Part 1 - 3D Model the Gate - Blender and UE5 Tutorial", "Making WoW Style Textures - Painter, UE5 and Blender Devlog", "What are Mipmaps in Game Engines?" and more.
December 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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PSA: if running mongodb, better update it or it’s gonna bleed your heap

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MongoBleed explained simply
CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:
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December 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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For Christmas my brother and I got our mom back into WoW after years break. Preparation for the new expansion. It’s been tons of fun.
December 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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I’ve been making game dev videos on stylized art for a few months now. If you fancy watching some, head to the link below. Any help through subscribing, likes, views is much appreciated! #indiegamedev #art

youtube.com/@petedimitrov

Thank you!
A screenshot of a list of YouTube videos. They have various thumbnails featuring a stylised art tower. It’s full of crystals and magical glow. The tower is made out of stone while the background is blue. On some of the thumbnails, there is a person (that’s me). Titles read and mention things like “Start of a 3D Diorama”, “Blender and UE5 Techniques”, “Hand Painted Textures, VFX and Retopology”, “World of Warcraft style art” and more.
May 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Exporting portfolio shots of our work on "Mud and Thunder" for SE:R here at Rebellion.
In the meantime, have some early blockouts from Design vs finalized Envo Art. #gamedev #art #gaming
(Design - Chris Palmer. Environment Art by me)
A screenshot from engine showing an early blockout of a V2 space for the game Sniper Elite: Resistance. There is a rocket in the middle and around it there are gray and orange blockout structures. The floor is gray and tiling. Same angle as before, but now the scene is fully fleshed out with art. The map is "Mud and Thunder" from Sniper Elite: Resistance. The scene depicts an enemy bunker full of rockets and military pieces. The player is to wreak havoc on that and stop the Nazi forces. The landscapes around the rocket are all lush and full of grass. The roads are paved and muddy. Screenshot from our proprietary engine "Asura".
September 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I wanna morph into a baby head pigeon and be put into Doom as cannon fodder annoying mob, always there, tormenting players for eternity. Bliss.
A close up of a painting from Paolo Veronese called “The Adoration of the Kings”. It depicts few baby beads with bird wings flying downwards on the canvas. A close up of a painting from Paolo Veronese called “The Adoration of the Kings”. This second shot is a close up of another baby face. This one is at a comical angle. The colors are warm and bright. The bird wings are dark and teal.
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Giving this a bump, hope is to be making a posting work in the new year again.
deswalsh.bsky.social Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hi I'm Des and I do prop and environment art in the games industry and here is a collection of some of my personal projects.
December 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Short summary video showcasing what we are making during my free 3D Art and Blueprints YT game dev course.

youtu.be/ut0rskJ-F4I

I wrapped up the tuts last month. Any help spreading the word is appreciated!

These took months to make and sadly algos haven't been very generous. Hope people enjoy it.
A video thumbnail showing a yellow grid floor with a portal on top. The gate portal is colored red and has a vortex. An arrow points to it and text reads "Make a 3D Portal?". Next to those is a picture of my face, in a typical YouTube surprised expression.
December 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Holidays + Steam Deck + Tomb Raider. What else could one ask for?

Happy holidays to everyone! I hope you get a well deserved rest and fun.
A picture of a blue blanked on top of which is a Steam Deck. Tomb Raider Go is running on it and the screen is filled with low poly art images of a jungle and Lara Croft.
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Holidays + Steam Deck + Tomb Raider. What else could one ask for?

Happy holidays to everyone! I hope you get a well deserved rest and fun.
A picture of a blue blanked on top of which is a Steam Deck. Tomb Raider Go is running on it and the screen is filled with low poly art images of a jungle and Lara Croft.
December 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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I maintain a curated list of animation learning resources, links to handy sites, books, reference, etc. www.ninjadodo.net/animlinks.html
Animation Resources
www.ninjadodo.net
December 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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I decided I'm going to isolate the gate and work on it as a mini diorama. I'll add grass and a path around it and figure out my grass textures, stone pavings, foliage, before returning to the bigger scene.
#gamedev #gameart #art
A UE5 screenshot of a gate with a portal. It's made out of stone and has golden motives. The background around is dark blue.
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM