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salmikawolf.bsky.social
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@salmikawolf.bsky.social
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✧ friendly neighbourhood wolf ✧ they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ ✧

✧ Senior 3D Artist @ustwogames ✧

✧ Monument Valley 2 & 3, Assemble with Care & Alba: A Wildlife Adventure ✧

✧ https://fensartden.com/ ✧
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salmikawolf.bsky.social
i just love to have fun
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
salmikawolf.bsky.social
I joined @ustwogames.co.uk 9 years ago!

I'm so proud of the work I've been able to do during my career so far with them, and so happy I get to make games with the best bunch of people.

Monument Valley 2
Assemble with Care
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Monument Valley 3

I love making colorful art!!
Selection of levels from the game Monument Valley 2. Selection of levels from Assemble with Care showing different objects. A selection of characters from Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, mostly cute birds but a few people too. A selection of levels from Monument Valley 3.
October 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
salmikawolf.bsky.social
Monument Valley 3 is out now on consoles and steam!! If you're looking for a magical journey with outstanding music this one is for you ✨

store.steampowered.com/app/3132930/...
Bright yellow field of wheat with architecture coming out of it with the title Monument Valley 3 enlarged in the middle and a character standing to the side
July 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Here's a very early concept I did on Monument Valley 3, which later inspired art for a section of levels that made it in the final game.

Final art by @ianzell.bsky.social and design by @ludicryan.bsky.social & @ianzell.bsky.social (plus support from other folks for the final iteration!)
Concept of a lone tower with foggy black and white hills around with white trees. A stark red roof and red accent colors of a ribbon around the tower. A lone black and white tower with grey hills in the background. The tower has red accents, but also has a beautiful blue plant wrapping around the tower itself that the character is able to walk on to solve the puzzle. Art by Ian Zell
May 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
salmikawolf.bsky.social
Hey #PortfolioDay I'm Fen (they/them)! I've been working on art for games for almost a decade now :)

I make coloful environments and playful characters. I've been very lucky to be part of early concepting and art direction to polishing the finished game.

Portfolio: fensartden.com
Monument Valley 3 screenshots of different colorful architectures from moody night scenes to bright daytime scenes full of flowers A selection of characters from Alba: A Wildlife Adventure. Features several types of birds like glossy ibis and turtle doves, and cute characters you'll encounter throughout the game A selection of screens from Assemble with Care, a game that has each puzzle needing to repair various objects. Objects include old cameras, watches and projectors. A selection of Monument Valley 2 levels, showing various architecctures including a scene that switches from day to night
April 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
salmikawolf.bsky.social
Happy #TransDayofVisibility!! 🏳️‍⚧️

I'm going to keep putting trans flag colors and trans characters in every game I work on!!
A selection of isometric art from Monument Valley 3, each have a different variation of colors including pink, blue and white for the trans flag. App Store Interview Fen did including a trans character from the game Alba: A Wildlife Adventure. "As you roam through the Apple Arcade game Alba's sunlight-speckled forests and orchards, your objective is the photograph its people, places and wildlife while cleaning up the island. You'll interact with dozens of characters, among them Felix, a transgender man with visibly top surgery scars. "I suggested we include someone with top surgery because at the time I was doing a lot of research about that for myself" says Ustwo Games senior artist Fen Beatty."
March 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
salmikawolf.bsky.social
ATTENTION INDIEDEVS
Show off your art style
A selection of colorful and vibrant environments from Monument Valley 3 Characters and birds in Alba: A Wildlife Adventure in bright summer environments A selection of stylised and colorful objects in the game Assemble with Care A selection of levels from Monument Valley 2 showing dark and moody architecture as well as bright colorful scenes
March 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
salmikawolf.bsky.social
Early on in development for Monument Valley 3 I worked on a concept inspired by the Lempuyang Temple Bali. The goal was to get an idea of how we could push the level of detail as well as adding juice to how we handled lighting.

This didn't make the cut but I still think it looks good!
A large temple gate is opened on a sunset sky with a golden sun casting light onto the architecture. A lone character stands in the gate. Set in the isometric art style of monument valley. The real life reference of the Lempuyang temple in Bali. A large gate backlit by a golden sunset with a lone figure standing in the middle.
March 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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In a very early concept for Monument Valley 3, I was obsessed with the idea of the boat companion being a dragon like in wind waker. I wanted the player to be able to ride its head while sailing. Here was my concept for a first meeting!

Early player character design by Lili Ibrahim
A wall of water presented against a beach shows a dragon-like boat meeting a new character for the first time. Birds fly around overhead.
March 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Here was an early concept for it - I was like what if it was like a cool window to a garden and plants happened as you play the level.... My concepts are always messy but they get the point across! I actually used one of my arted levels from Monument Valley 2 as reference for the window idea.
More whitebox level with final looking colors to it and a grand window silhouette but not as much architecture same as previous image but a crude drawing of plants growing between the architecture added on top Level in Monument Vally 2 that has a similar window-like shape that shows stark white architecture and a dark night scene through the silhouette.
March 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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aaa hello new folks that found me from my last post 🙈 I'm slowly posting a bunch of art from Monument Valley 3!

Here's another whitebox to final. Design by @xuhe.bsky.social and @ludicryan.bsky.social, art by me with help from the art team!
Whitebox level in Monument Valley 3, basic structures with only game design elements to it. Final art version in game, added a window like element of deep green and purple architecture as well as growing vines with bright pink flowers on the ends.
March 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Here's a closer up of one of the scenes in The Temple chapter in Monument Valley 3. Design by @vltmn.itch.io - art by me with help from the art team.

We decided to start the level lighter and then show the cover of night happening as you travel up the tower getting darker as the water rises 🌊
A whitebox design level with the base mechanics in it such as dark moody water on the brink of swallowing the main characters. Final arted level that has eerie bright yellow water and a city at night with lights in the windows, waiting to be flooded.
March 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Another before and after for Monument Valley 3! Initial design by Mairi Florence, arted final version by me with help and feedback from the art team!

I love getting to make designs shine with my art ✨
Whitebox version of a starting level in Monument Valley 3 Architecture half sunken in water, in various hues of blue. Final art and polish version in the final game.
March 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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We both wanted a level that pulled at players heartstrings, losing an important place to a natrual disaster as well as an important mentor figure.

I was really inspired by Wan Shi Tong’s library in Avatar the Last Airbender!!
An architectural inside of a library from the animated series Avatar the Last Airbender.
March 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Progress for The Temple chapter in Monument Valley 3. I worked with Olesia Zaidman in concepting out a scene where the goal was to have an ominous vibe and waters that were perilously rising as you puzzled through.

We both worked on potential puzzles for it and began blocking out our thoughts.
Reference images of architecture and rough drawings and models to show early vis dev of a chapter in monument valley 3. Dark waters and a dark vibe across with accents of red. More finished and polished direction of colors across this big tower you traverse up in the final game. The levels start with ominous yellow-green water and as you go up the tower the sea and architecture becomes a darker blue. At the top a bright red moon awaits.
March 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
salmikawolf.bsky.social
One of my favourite levels I got to do art for in Monument Valley 3, designed by Mairi Florence.

Absolutely loved the idea of showing townsfolk behind game elements!! It was such a challenege to balance visually but I'm super happy where it ended up.
A whitebox version of a town in Monument Valley 3, showing design elements that hide and show rooms of NPCs doing activities behind them. A halfway arted level. Showcasing the newer layout of the final design and some art elements and colors, but not fully finished. A fully colorful and lush town showcasing the design hiding elements. You can see a vibrant city and smaller rooms inside the architecture for NPCs to exist.
March 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Another concept from early development of Monument Valley 3 to the final version of it. I was thinking about how to make a big grand entrance for the player to set the scene.

Fun fact: There were 2 years between these images! You never know when an old concept can come back during development.
A grand entrance of wide stairs going up to a huge wall with a tall entry door. Rougher unfinished art ideas. A grand entrance of stairs going up to a huge wall with a tall entry door that is full of color and details of a town behind the entry wall. Water rising to meet the wall to show flooding.
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
salmikawolf.bsky.social
I also did a silly version where you pull the whole level out of a portal aha we did not know how to make that into a puzzle so we didn't use it in the end.
February 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
salmikawolf.bsky.social
During development of Monument Valley 3 I got to work on loads of cool concepts I'm super proud of.

This one was an early version of our portal mechanic, I was very excited by the potential mechanics for it. It ended up becoming a really fun few puzzles in the game ✨
February 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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hushhh habibi
February 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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runnin runnin runnin
February 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Fen-coded characters
Liaos from Dungeon Meshi Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist Haruhi from Ouran Highschool Host Club Todoroki from My hero academia
January 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Dungeon Meshi coffee station art by @chiou.bsky.social ✨💖 I also got the dungeon Meshi eco bag for groceries and it is so so good!!!! Making our kitchen the Meshi zone 🍳
Kitchen coffee station with various bits like a kettle, bean grinder and little tabby and white cat hanging out under a dungeon art Meshi print
January 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I'm not sure if it was automated, but it seemed to be because my accounts country was set to a different country than I am playing from but its super hard to change country as you need specific proof of address that I don't have and I can't change it myself.
January 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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After 8 years of playing @playoverwatch2.bsky.social I have been banned permanently with basically zero knowledge as to why this has happened to me.

When appealing I was told I was cheating which is something I've never done - I don't even play ranked as its just for fun for me.
January 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM