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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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once again I like how the base color map turned into a little illustration!
a 3d texture representing the base color of the material
December 16, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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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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cute base color detail of an upcoming material...
a stylized postbox. It says "posta".
December 13, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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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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My first own model made with FreeCAD: my desk lamp. Switching from meshes to CAD is relaxing.
A screenshot of FreeCAD showing the 3D model of a desk lamp.
November 29, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Post your fav Pokemon, wrong answers only
A Flesh mutant from Stalker
November 24, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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Ah, so this is that new STALKER game that everyone is talking about... seems cozy, might give it a try!
A screenshot of STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl.
November 22, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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The sky is grey above the city that floats.

Unrelatedly, doing the Biennale in a few hours felt like going through contemporary art fast food 😵‍💫
industrial ugliness on the return from Venice
November 21, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Tourists: taking pictures of canals
Me: taking pictures of the mold
mold leaking out of the windows of a Venetian building
November 21, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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The Biennale was fun

(writing the alt text of this photo was fun too)
a sculpture built out of three mannequins eating each other asses perpendicularly. From their pelvis, what look like pocket watches or make up boxes hang out in a phallical way. Each man wears Mexican army uniforms. Behind the uniform, lingerie is visible.
November 21, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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The sky is blue above the city that floats.
Venice visible on the horizon. the sky is blue and the water too
November 21, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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Those fog volumes aren’t very convincing
a little canal with some weird small banks of fog upon it and some empty fields around. the ruin of a house is visible behind
November 20, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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I've assigned the "Call Asset Shelf Popover" shortcut to B instead of Shift+Spacebar, so that it is faster to call, like in ZBrush.

#b3d #blender
The keymap preferences window.
November 20, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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You can really feel that on Blender 4.3 sculpting performs so much better.

#blender #b3d #3d
November 20, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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If you want to test this on your own artwork, just open on one tab Bluesky and on another the original image in your computer. Switch from one on the other and... the horror 🤐

Now you won't be able to unsee this anymore. I'm sorry!

/end of the thread, I hope this gets addressed eventually
November 20, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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Every time you upload the same image screenshot from Bluesky, the colors get worse and worse :D
a screenshot from my Bsky feed.
November 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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I've already reported it through the form. More details on the tagging. On the left is the original image with the sRGB tag, on the right the image after upload.
when observing the properties of the original image on Windows, one can see that the sRGB tag is applied to it. when observing the properties of the image after upload, one can see that the sRGB tag has been removed.
November 20, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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A thing that buggers me is that images on Bsky are not displayed correctly, as they lose their sRGB tag. On the left is a photo on Bsky, on the right the orig. Same on iOS.
Every image uploaded here is slightly faded out.

@bsky.app a lot of artists moved here, please make our images show right ❤️
A comparison of two photos opened in the same browser (Firefox). The one on the left is faded; the one on the right is not.
November 20, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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I got the inspiration from some old overgrown tiles I saw in Perugia some days ago!
a reference board with many real-life photos of a brick pavement covered with overgrown grass.
November 19, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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To relax and get out of my comfort zone, I have created some stylized ancient tiles with Substance Designer. Very different from what I usually do, I've really enjoyed playing with colors.

www.artstation.com/artwork/EzN9w2

#madewithsubstance #gamedev #cgi #3d #b3d
A 3d render of a stylized floor with broken tiles and some moss growing in-between them. A closeup to the same tiles. The same material, seen from above as a whole.
November 19, 2024 at 7:52 PM