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Matteo Scopel
@scopelmatt.bsky.social
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material artist.
I like photos of dirty buildings, reading tomes, pixels that move and enlightening ideas.

he/him | in Italy

https://artstation.com/matteoscopel
https://matteoscopel.com
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scopelmatt.bsky.social
Matteo Scopel @scopelmatt.bsky.social · Oct 20
Hi, Bluesky :)
I’m Matteo, a material artist. I like studying the physical composition of materials and their history and recreating them in 3d. Here are some renders. I’m currently looking for work!
In my free time, I’m working on a small narrative-driven game, on which I’ll share more one day.
A drawer containing nine samples of marble. It is 3d. A rocky wall inspired by the Icelandic cliff Gerduberg A piece of Tartan cloth. A sci-fi trimsheet full of pipes and switches.
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johnkazart.bsky.social
Continuing on #ConjureSDF v0.3, a from the ground up rewrite for Blender 4.5+

Rendering SDFs at a lower resolution gives a proportionally larger increase in performance.
for ex. at 75% resolution, performance can be up to 2x higher.

#blender3d #b3d #blender #3dart #3dmodeling
May 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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johnkazart.bsky.social
Slowly working on #ConjureSDF v0.3, a from the ground up rewrite for Blender 4.5+

Per primitive colors have been on my to do list for a long time, but other features sadly always took priority. But not anymore👀

#blender3d #b3d #blender #3dart #3dmodeling
May 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
Yesterday I've watched Flow and I loved it. The atmosphere is quiet and evocative of a bigger and non-intelligible world. The personality of each animal and their animations are so well created.

And the fact that, behind the scenes, it's all made in Blender and EEVEE makes it even more impressive.
The movie poster of Flow, featuring a cat swimming in water surrounded by fishes.
January 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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valigiablu.it
🧵 Addio Facebook e Instagram: è ora di ricostruire le nostre case digitali | @ariannaciccone.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/facebook-ins... via @valigiablu.it
Addio Facebook e Instagram: è ora di ricostruire le nostre case digitali - Valigia Blu
La radicalizzazione di Mark Zuckerberg, l'assalto all'informazione e alla democrazia della nuova oligarchia tech americana, addio a Facebook e Instagram: è ora di ri-costruire la nostra casa digitale.
www.valigiablu.it
January 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
My ancient marble collection ended up in Adobe's selection for the Substance Designer Insanity Awards this year. I'm in great company, wow!

www.behance.net/gallery/2173...
the marble collection
January 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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foxh3ad.itch.io
My little liquid containers are done and ready to be seen!!
Check it out on the link!

#props #3dart #blender #b3d #marmoset #render #portfolio #substancepainter

Link: www.artstation.com/artwork/x3NvO1
January 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposted by Matteo Scopel
troglodette.bsky.social
🔥SUBSTANCE DESIGNER 14.1 IS LIVE 🔥
helpx.adobe.com/substance-3d...
January 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
Hey #portfolioday!
I'm Matteo, a material artist from Italy currently looking for work 🎨

my full portfolio is here: www.artstation.com/matteoscopel
if you want to get in touch, you can send me a DM or write to matteo@scopel.email
a stylized venetian door tartan cloth a marble sample case a stylized floor made of bricks
January 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
If you are looking for reference pictures, the Italian ministry of cultural heritage catalogued thousands of artifacts, monuments, archeological and natural sites with descriptions and pictures here: catalogo.beniculturali.it
Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali
Catalogo generale dei beni culturali dell'ICCD. Esplora il nostro patrimonio culturale attraverso un'interfaccia all'avanguardia, collegando i dati secondo il paradigma dei Linked Open Data. Contribui...
catalogo.beniculturali.it
January 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reposted by Matteo Scopel
chapps.bsky.social
Speaking of faces peering out at us from the ancient past, this encaustic mummy portrait from Roman Egypt is a stunner. The Greek inscription on the neckline of the tunic - the common language of the eastern Mediterranean at the time - identifies the boy as Eutyches.🏺 1/

100-150 CE
#MetMuseum 📸 me
The young boy in this remarkably lifelike portrait looks calmly at the viewer, his head in three-quarter view. His hair is short and dark, with some lighter brown highlights; he has dark brown eyes and long dark lashes. His skin is what we would typically call 'Mediterranean' - looking tanned from the sun or genetics. A slight smile appears on his bow-like pink lips. He is dressed in a white Roman tunic with a narrow purple clavus (a vertical stripe) over the right shoulder. A mantle is draped over the left shoulder. The boy wears his dark brown hair short, with locks brushed to both sides of the forehead. The inscription in dark purple pigment below the neckline of the tunic is in Greek, which was the common language of the eastern Mediterranean at the time. Scholars do not completely agree on the inscription's translation. The boy's name ("Eutyches, freedman of Kasanios") seems indisputable; then follows either "son of Herakleides Evandros" or "Herakleides, son of Evandros." It is also unclear whether the "I signed" at the end of the inscription refers to the painter of the portrait or to the manumission (act of freeing a slave) that would have been witnessed by Herakleides or Evandros. An artist's signature would be unique in mummy portraits.
December 14, 2024 at 10:40 PM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
I like Piranesi's etchings of the Emissary of Lake Albano, an 1800-meters long channel built 2400 years ago. You can feel his admiration for this giant ancient abandoned infrastructure
An etching depicting an underground channel with giant pillars An etching depicting an underground channel and a big door An etching depicting an underground channel
December 29, 2024 at 9:35 AM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
Fun fact of the day: the Romans had a goddess who protected the sewers of Rome and she was called Cloacina 🙃
December 29, 2024 at 9:20 AM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
Oh, how I feel you, Q Girl!

#qud #cavesofqud
The first paragraph of a book called "Disquisition on the Malady of the Mimic" in the game Caves of Qud. It says: I'd like to reproduce a perspective I recently shared with a friend, a lamplighter by trade and an artist too, who shied away from a typography tournament at the festival of Ut yara Ux because of a fear in her heart. She suffers from the malady of the mimic, the all too common sickness that makes us feel like we're performing our lives instead of inhabiting them, that we don't belong next to those who've won success nor do we deserve those same successes when we've won them ourselves. I've counted myself among its victims in the past, and occasionally I still do.
December 23, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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partyinthefront.bsky.social
I made a mini Isle of the dead!
It's a mix of hand-made stuff and 3d printed details.

The 3d printed architecture stuff (barely visible) was made in blender, while the boat and figures are a remix of collected STLs including a virgin Mary freebie
A miniature diorama of Arnold Bocklin's Isle of the Dead, seen from the front. A boat with 2 mysterious figures, sliding on dark green water, approaches an island composed of rocks and cypress tree.
December 23, 2024 at 8:57 AM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
The annual winter release of Darktable, my favorite raw developer, is out! This time with a lot of UI improvements.

www.darktable.org/2024/12/dark...
darktable 5.0.0 released
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.0.0. To build from source, do not use...
www.darktable.org
December 22, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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kursadkr.bsky.social
Using Geometry Nodes in Blender for creating Biomechapods.

I created a robotic shape generator in Geometry Nodes for a scenic Unreal Engine project, using curves and sketched side profiles to produce background static actors.
#b3d #blender #geometrynodes #procedurelism #sciart #3dart #3dcg
December 20, 2024 at 9:45 PM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
A walk in Venice turned into this stylized material.

www.artstation.com/artwork/XJGm50

#madewithsubstance #gamedev #b3d #cgi
A stylized 3d material showcasing a Venetian building facade. There are a wooden door; a window; a postbox; the number of the building. The wall peels off revealing bricks; at the bottom there is a base of bigger bricks. A slight mold covers everything. It looks a bit painterly. Same scene as before, but frontal.
December 16, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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docseuss.bsky.social
new article. it's about what cozy and wholesome games are, why shitty people like them, and why I really liked I Was A Teenage Exocolonist.

docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen...
i was a teenage exocolonist (and so can you)
I’ve realized that I’m much better at discussing broad ranging theory than individual games, just because it’s easier to find ten games…
docseuss.medium.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:23 AM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
cute base color detail of an upcoming material...
a stylized postbox. It says "posta".
December 13, 2024 at 4:19 PM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
As I interact with Caves of Qud, I feel a bit like Bastian in The Neverending Story. I open this artifact and let the fantastic land appear in the eye of my mind. The glyphs become what they represent, and for a bit, I am no more and what is is my bizarre character in the land of Qud.
December 12, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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konstantinosd.bsky.social
This review put a smile on my face. www.eurogamer.net/caves-of-qud...
Caves of Qud review - come in and get lost
Our review of the dizzyling deep roguelike RPG Caves of Qud.
www.eurogamer.net
December 10, 2024 at 7:10 PM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
Here is a real life implementation of my fog shader.

#gamedev #fog
The landscape of Perugia with a sea of fog
December 7, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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troglodette.bsky.social
Always wondered how bitdepth exactly works? My colleague Laurens Corijn recorded a perfect tutorial to introduce this concept with many visuals and examples ✨👨‍🏫

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtG...
How Bit Depth & Dynamic Range Affect Your 3D Textures | Adobe Substance 3D
YouTube video by Adobe Substance 3D
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:32 PM
scopelmatt.bsky.social
don't let anyone convince you that you need anything more than voronoi noise in your life
December 3, 2024 at 12:07 PM