Steve Stark 🌕
@sstarkm.bsky.social
Former: Supervising Background Designer for Netflix’s Castlevania: Nocturne. An actual vampire. He/Him
Hello! It's been a year and some change since I was laid-off from my previous job, and I'd love a new one.
My name is Steve and I have 7 years of experience in the animation industry as a background artist and illustrator. I've worked on shows like Castlevania, and card games like MtG!
My name is Steve and I have 7 years of experience in the animation industry as a background artist and illustrator. I've worked on shows like Castlevania, and card games like MtG!
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hello! It's been a year and some change since I was laid-off from my previous job, and I'd love a new one.
My name is Steve and I have 7 years of experience in the animation industry as a background artist and illustrator. I've worked on shows like Castlevania, and card games like MtG!
My name is Steve and I have 7 years of experience in the animation industry as a background artist and illustrator. I've worked on shows like Castlevania, and card games like MtG!
Me looking at New York, Jersey, and Virginia tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Me looking at New York, Jersey, and Virginia tonight
Seeing a professional artist on the other site go viral with an AI meme
October 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Seeing a professional artist on the other site go viral with an AI meme
Watching a geometry nodes tutorial be like
October 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Watching a geometry nodes tutorial be like
This image is funny but legit this is how 3D art feels like to me. The way I talk to other artists about shader node groups may as well be like two wizards sharing magical runes between each other.
October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This image is funny but legit this is how 3D art feels like to me. The way I talk to other artists about shader node groups may as well be like two wizards sharing magical runes between each other.
Scene setup as well!
October 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Scene setup as well!
Here's another vid to show the 3D-ness of it all!
October 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Here's another vid to show the 3D-ness of it all!
I think I finally am cracking the code on this 3D-Ghibli stuff. I watched an amazing tutorial on the trees from @AversionReality
that really helped me understand shader nodes way better.
I'm also using assets from @Reipart_
(The grass) and @FaruqTawsif
(The flowers).
that really helped me understand shader nodes way better.
I'm also using assets from @Reipart_
(The grass) and @FaruqTawsif
(The flowers).
October 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I think I finally am cracking the code on this 3D-Ghibli stuff. I watched an amazing tutorial on the trees from @AversionReality
that really helped me understand shader nodes way better.
I'm also using assets from @Reipart_
(The grass) and @FaruqTawsif
(The flowers).
that really helped me understand shader nodes way better.
I'm also using assets from @Reipart_
(The grass) and @FaruqTawsif
(The flowers).
Someone showed me the beauty of custom normals
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Someone showed me the beauty of custom normals
Alright we're getting places
October 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Alright we're getting places
Experimenting with Ghibli-style trees in Blender. Most of this is based off of @FaruqTawsif's amazing Ghibli-inspired asset library (link below), but I modified it to have a camera-vectored shadow texture on top, and a custom texture for the tree mesh itself.
October 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Experimenting with Ghibli-style trees in Blender. Most of this is based off of @FaruqTawsif's amazing Ghibli-inspired asset library (link below), but I modified it to have a camera-vectored shadow texture on top, and a custom texture for the tree mesh itself.
From the other site, but oh no
October 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
From the other site, but oh no
Detroit Lions - 38
Baltimore Ravens - 30
Baltimore Ravens - 30
September 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Detroit Lions - 38
Baltimore Ravens - 30
Baltimore Ravens - 30
It’s finally time.
September 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
It’s finally time.
Granted, I would’ve liked *more* tension in Caelid, but I would love to meet the person who saw this sight and unironically thought “this must be an easy area”.
September 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Granted, I would’ve liked *more* tension in Caelid, but I would love to meet the person who saw this sight and unironically thought “this must be an easy area”.
Today, the clown makeup comes off.
September 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today, the clown makeup comes off.
Everyone is preparing for Silksong by playing Hollow Knight, but I’ve already played it like 4 times, so instead I’ve been playing Paper Mario 64 with custom textures. Gonna play the remake of TTYD next.
August 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Everyone is preparing for Silksong by playing Hollow Knight, but I’ve already played it like 4 times, so instead I’ve been playing Paper Mario 64 with custom textures. Gonna play the remake of TTYD next.
Dunno how many newer followers have seen this stuff; but I've been working on a personal project in my off-time for about 8 years now called FOLK. It's a closer look at ordinary people set in extraordinary worlds.
I might even be working on the next piece for it 👀
I might even be working on the next piece for it 👀
August 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Dunno how many newer followers have seen this stuff; but I've been working on a personal project in my off-time for about 8 years now called FOLK. It's a closer look at ordinary people set in extraordinary worlds.
I might even be working on the next piece for it 👀
I might even be working on the next piece for it 👀
Was looking through old Castlevania: Nocturne art and found some backgrounds of the area of the Louvre that Olrox and Mizrak have some fun times in
August 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Was looking through old Castlevania: Nocturne art and found some backgrounds of the area of the Louvre that Olrox and Mizrak have some fun times in
Got to see a black swallowtail emerge from its cocoon within a 24 hour span
July 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Got to see a black swallowtail emerge from its cocoon within a 24 hour span