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Seth Rutledge
@eldritch48.bsky.social
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He/Him Designer & cinematic illustrator. IATSE 891 Chronic world builder. I also write a lot of music. At this point in my life, I’m pretty rabidly anti-capitalist. NO AI. https://sethrutledge.com
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This is "Cleo", who remains one of my favourite characters I've ever made.

#Blender #Art #ConceptArt #Cyberpunk #SciFi #CharacterDesign
A young woman in her early 20s, wearing a greenish-grey hoodie and standing on a smoggy street with a building behind her. She has a shaved head, and synthskin panels break up her face. Instead of eyes, she has two large circular mirrorshade lenses grafted to her sockets. She doesn't look like she smiles much.
December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Gotta do a glowing giant mushroom forest at some point in your career.

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #Scifi #Landscape
Looking up at the bottom of a giant mushroom, with insects flying around it. The entire scene is lit with a soft magenta light.
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Bit of an older one, from my exploration of faerie living underground...the idea was the deeper you went, the more magical things became.

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #UrbanFantasy
A doorway in an old, rounded sewer access tunnel. There is trash on the floor of the tunnel., and a lantern hanging outside the door lights the scene.
December 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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This one is a little different - When I was on Snowpiercer S2, the Production Designer was looking for paintings for Wilford's cabin, and I whipped this up on spec. It ended up prominently displayed, and then a producer claimed it and took it home when the show ended.

#Art #Painting #Snowpiercer
Painting in the style of Goya's "Saturn Eating His Children": Two young men at night in front of a dead tree. One, wearing only a loincloth, is holding a club and standing over the prone body of the other.
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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This was another fun one - how do the decedents of a shipwrecked crew living inside an alien Dyson sphere grow food?

#Art #ConceptArt #SciFi #Blender #WorldBuilding
A hydroponic grow farm under artificial lights, deep inside the shell of a Dyson sphere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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From my project where demonic capitalists infect and corrupt India and its people.

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #Horror
A street on the outskirts of Delhi, where ropes of "cancerous" infection grow from and interconnect the buildings. A woman, mutated by the corruption to have an insect-like head, stands in front of a painted sign for a school.
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I liked this one - it was fun to "physically accurately" set up the hanging bulkheads that make up the bridge, and the monkey robots were fun to sculpt :)

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #SciFi
Three "monkey shaped" robots make their way across a bridge made up of hanging bulkheads through a sickly green fog with light from above.
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A slightly older one, but I like both the ship and the snow effect I got for the environment. #Art #ConceptArt #Scifi #Blender
A small starship landing at night on a snowy, mountainous planet.
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Here's another older one from my Dallas cyberpunk project...although this was supposed to be Louisiana. Rural cyberpunk has ALWAYS intrigued me.

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #Cyberpunk #Landscape #SciFi
A collection of "cyberpunk" band members gather out front of "Beaumont's BBQ", a ramshackle restaurant / club in the bijou.
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Here's another concept from my bio-technical empire that I was working on back in January. This is essentially a "repeater station" that transfers energy down the line.

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #SciFi #BioTech #Landscape
Biotech conduits weave their way through all levels of a jungle, looking almost like the rails to a crazed rollercoaster.
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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"The Affordable Care Act is 15 years old... That is why the Republican Party is trying to fuck it."
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I had a lot of fun on this project trying to imagine different ways to make robotic shapes that didn't have to be humanoid.

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #SciFi
A robotic, walking, octopus-like character standing in a faceted room made of metal panels.
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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From my cyberpunk world-building project in 2024. Was trying to show how construction and *aging* of structures in the neat future shouldn't be so mono-designed.
A row of shotgun shacks underneath an overpass in a cyberpunk Dallas at sunset. There is a floodwall "upstage" to prevent the river from overflowing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Pre #Caturday King!
My big, fluffy tabby cat, Fafnir, cuddles up to a gnome with a grey hat on the mantle.
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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From an older project, the idea was a graveyard where bodies were placed in biological tombs that grew around them.

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #SciFi
A dead humanoid body, placed in the fetal position, resting inside the "bones" of a pod shaped tomb that will quickly grow to be solid.
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Here's another image from the city of Myre, made this summer for a project.

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #SciFi #Landscape
Two amphibian humanoids talk beside a wooden market stall on a cluttered pier in a greenish fog.
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I made this almost 4 years ago, but it remains one of my favourites - not because it is flashy, but because it is not.

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #Landscape
A highway overpass crosses a local road with a gas-station on the right corner. A red pickup truck turns right onto the highway on ramp. It's late fall, and leaves gather in clumps on the road.
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I've always been drawn to "parametric" architecture, and structures that feel grown. Made this one in January, and it hits the high points :)

#Art #ConceptArt #Blender #Landscape #SciFi
Lattice-like structures and walkways through the jungle on a sunny day.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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From back in April. Trying to show a 'cyberpunk' city scene that doesn't tear down all the old buildings when new things are added. #Art #ConceptArt #Blender #Cyberpunk #City #SciFi
A cyberpunk city intersection at night, after a rain. The roads are wet, and the buildings are mostly lit up. A blue spotlight from off camera points at a man on the right side of the image.
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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She watches, and she waits. #Cat
A grey and white cat sits inside a grey felt "cat cave" and looks directly at the camera. This poster is biased, but he feels she is the most beautiful little lady.
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Happy Halloween :) #Art #ConceptArt #Blender #Horror
A village in the fleshy bowels of a great creature, made of bone and sinew.
October 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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So tonight is Devil's Night! #Art #ConceptArt #Horror #Blender
A demonic figure lit from below in a fog-filled abandoned warehouse.
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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QRP with your dark art🖤
Two people hooked up to a soul-sucking VR sim in a dark, dirty room filled with corpses and cancerous-like flesh growths.
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Something about rickety wooden platforms and caves that just resonates with me :)

#Art #ConceptArt #Landscape #Blender
A series of wooden platforms, stairs and walkways built inside a vertical cave, with sunlight streaming down from above.
October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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This was from a near future project, exploring the conflict between "solarpunk" rebels and the Corporate power structure. #Art #ConceptArt #SciFi #Blender
A large communal housing structure at dusk, sitting on the side of a forested hill.
October 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM