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Tamlin V
@tamlinv.bsky.social
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Artist, Illustrator, & Game Dev | sharks, pirates, and DMing | current work: escape rooms, props, zines, UE5 & ttrpg maps | (he/them) being a mystery | also can be found online as Tamayrs
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OVERY NOISY EXCESSIVE TILE MAP (I'm messing around in Gamemaker Studio with tiles by Szadi arts)
A large tilemap made of metal girder tiles & complex greeblie shapes. It is excessively overdone for fun XD. Imagine lots of metal clanging from a game character running over it. Same as previous image but zoomed into the corridors with blue light coming up from under the girders
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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An artist's (mine) fall 2025 work on PBR materials for #gamedev & #indiedev
A grid collection of images. In the center it says, "Tamlin V Fall 2025 Texture Designwork Ft. Material Maker/CSP/Physical Mixed Media" The grid is filled with imaged of 2d pbr textures for 3d computer models and game dev. There is sand dunes, rock, colour variation, ink like akin to marbled paper, normal maps, ambient occlusion and etc.
November 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Closest I've gotten to the rock texture I'm aiming for! The texture library is starting to look like I can fill up some shelves of it soon. #MaterialMaker #pbr
A blue normal map of roughish looking rock texture. Beneath it an orb showcasing the roughness and shallow chipped gashes floats midair.
October 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Aha #MaterialMaker 1.4 did manage to save my sand materials before the freeze! (pretty sure I did not add buffers where needed) #gamedev
Behold it is more sand material, with a orange dusty colouration texture that was used in the process to make it pictured above the sand
October 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Welp I've frozen #MaterialMaker ... I do hope i get to save my sand textures (pictured here moments before the incident)
thin light sand dune lines interspersed with more flat windblown sections, above this 3d rendered texture is the flat tiling ambient occlusion texture that is part of the overall texture
October 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Hey thanks! Hope you enjoy my art and shenanigans!
A shark holding a paintbrush in its mouth in a explosion fog cloud with the text, "Thank You !!! for 300 follows"
October 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Mocking up some level design/architecture & cityscape to hop around in #gamedev #AssetForge
A 3d modelled japanese alley of business in assetforge by Kenney, thin wooden beams crisscross above it Alernating rooftops and streets loosely modelled
October 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Reference overload cause it makes my brain function and pleased to do the art making
A reference board so big that all the pictures are like the size of ants
October 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Recently I've been throwing together some base 3d models for game design #Plasticity & #AssetForge
Setting up a street alleyway akin to Assassins Creed in AssetForge by Kenney A bunch of primitive shapes & building blocks modelled in plasticity
September 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Palm blade sketches
6 wide panels with rough graphite sketches of a single long palm leaf branch squished uniquely in each rectangle
September 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I've done it! I've cracked the code on where to get quality scans of historic boat design & drafting documents.
Archive search database with various pictures and names of different boats/their design diagrams/years. Think nice patinaed and yellowed old paper like a pirate map.
September 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Yesterday was good: Mac'ncheese & figuring out 3d printing visorak footsies. These lil fellas gonna need some retopology or switched normals on one lil part. Other than that I've figured out the right scaling and exporting knowledge to mess with some more Bionicle!
A visorak foot gcode file opened in Prusa gcode viewer. It is a ridged clawlike mechanical finger piece for the visorak foot? In this I'm going down to the layer of a misprint and examining what was happening on the 3d printer when it happened so I can fix it. The base 3d model file for the Visorak foot. The piston parts on the far end are not being properly read by the 3d slicers.
September 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Some messy 1st passes at Legend of Zelda scaling to character model
A height chart with meter sticks and head ratios that has messily sized to it character models of Link from BotW & TotK. One meter sized metal sheikah shrine block sits behind them all. A height chart with meter sticks and head ratios that has behind the semi-transparent anatomy models a scaled screenshot of Link and Impa from OoT.
August 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I've made a bit more progress on this WIP, but mainly it's been me being exhausted and brain fog today. I barely scraped thru my notes on UE5 today but I did so that's a victory
a strange digital art of layered patterns and fog and dungeon ruins
August 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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I've lined up the meter scaling to my anatomy study for character modelling. I've set it to 1.8m as to match the UE5 mannequin I'm working off of. Next up is lining up some scaled items and chara models from OoT & BotW/TotK. #gamedev
Anatomical figure/Skeleton that is lined up with ratio lines, included are: Heads to height, meters scales, & anatomical lines of key art anatomy reference points
August 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Design & composition thumbnail sketches
8 square tiles with gestural drawings of strokes and swoops sketched out in lime green. I'm playing with patterns.
August 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Kitbashing lowpoly character models akin to Ocarina of Time progress || anatomy study in #clipstudio / Geometry character kitbash in #AssetForge by @kenney.nl / Reference to n64 models arranged by @lalam24.bsky.social || #gamedev #indiedev
July 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Using #Kenney #AssetForge explicitly as it was stated not intended to be used in the q&a and making a character model to rig! I'm aiming for a model somewhat similar to some Ocarina of Time lowpoly npc's #gamedev
in the AssetForge software a human form is being shped out of multiple kitbashed 3d geometry and airplane fuselage parts The Death Mountain trail guard from, the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time. He's holding onto his spear, got his hand on his hip, & wearing his foxy Keaton mask. Let's face it. He's got some very nicely styled polygons.
July 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Success #3dmodelling #plasticity3d
June 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Picking back up on some CAD modelling for the first time in ages, yeag! #plasticity #plasticity3d
a flat outline of a french cleat mocked up in the cad software, Plasticity a french cleat (in 3d) mocked up in the cad software, Plasticity
June 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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I was in the middle of making a texture set to prototype games with before my kitchen ceiling attacked. this is where it's at now. 🖌️
A bunch of square textures being digitally painted/collaged/physically drawn and scanned. There are multiple colours/ leaves greenery/ rocks/ wood/ cobblestone. It is a work in progress.
June 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Cemetery sketching, many obelisk
Multicolored pencil sketch of a loose skeleton sketch, he is made of some ovals Multicolor pencil sketch of a bendy, thin, small tree
May 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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a black cat in a sparkly wizard robe and pointy hat looking nonplussed with a coffee mug in its paws. The cat is infront of a volcano. Written on top it says, " why is everything bullshit tho?"
May 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Messing around with lego block colours for art because i can
an image of a screenshot of some old manuscript showing a colour circle. Swatches of lego brick colours have been pasted around it allowing to see their contrasts and what colours go with what section. Kind of a pretty blocky mess
May 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Tiling things
sharktective in a square tiling size with a layer mask over the left half. (sharktective is a detective shark with a looking glass & a trench coat. He has silly peets/feets) sharktective tiling texture from befor but the left half of sharktective picture is overlapping his right half
May 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM