Xavier
@xavierck.com
character and tech artist in gamedev and going to therapy about it
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🧷co-founder + CEO @render-ready.com
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🗺 Los Angeles
🎨 https://xavierck.com
💌 XavierCK.3D@gmail.com
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🧷co-founder + CEO @render-ready.com
💬 he/him
🗺 Los Angeles
🎨 https://xavierck.com
💌 XavierCK.3D@gmail.com
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Xavier
@xavierck.com
· Oct 17
Now that the Great Exodus is happening...
Hi! I'm Xavier. I'm a 3D character/technical artist who's been in games for over a decade. I've worked on some stuff you've probably heard of and a lot you haven't.
And yes, I am the guy personally responsible for making Rivet jacked.
Hi! I'm Xavier. I'm a 3D character/technical artist who's been in games for over a decade. I've worked on some stuff you've probably heard of and a lot you haven't.
And yes, I am the guy personally responsible for making Rivet jacked.
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Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
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Hey look who's back from firing and will be in the shop Wednesday at 11am Pacific! It's our old friends cuttlefish bottle and hissing possum jar.
Leslielevings.bigcartel.com tomorrow!
Leslielevings.bigcartel.com tomorrow!
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hey look who's back from firing and will be in the shop Wednesday at 11am Pacific! It's our old friends cuttlefish bottle and hissing possum jar.
Leslielevings.bigcartel.com tomorrow!
Leslielevings.bigcartel.com tomorrow!
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If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
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My first post on Bluesky! This is a short video from our game Dome, which we’re currently developing. The game is still in its early phase. Hopefully, someone will see this post >.<
#pixelart #indiedev #darkfantasy
#pixelart #indiedev #darkfantasy
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My first post on Bluesky! This is a short video from our game Dome, which we’re currently developing. The game is still in its early phase. Hopefully, someone will see this post >.<
#pixelart #indiedev #darkfantasy
#pixelart #indiedev #darkfantasy
I need someone to use a large needle on the brains of people who insist on posting an animated GIF along with every fucking post they make in a thread
I'm trying to read the words you've written, not look at a bunch of TV show characters making Dreamworks Face
I'm trying to read the words you've written, not look at a bunch of TV show characters making Dreamworks Face
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I need someone to use a large needle on the brains of people who insist on posting an animated GIF along with every fucking post they make in a thread
I'm trying to read the words you've written, not look at a bunch of TV show characters making Dreamworks Face
I'm trying to read the words you've written, not look at a bunch of TV show characters making Dreamworks Face
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“Many believe Future Class’s failure will serve as a cogent reminder that allyship without proper support is simply performative.”
I can’t see why anyone would continue to support TGA when it clearly does not support game devs, just a circle jerk for the wealthy.
I can’t see why anyone would continue to support TGA when it clearly does not support game devs, just a circle jerk for the wealthy.
"We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people. You know where Future Class met that day? At a Starbucks.”
‘We were effectively props’: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Many believe Future Class’s failure will serve as a cogent reminder that allyship without proper support is simply performative.”
I can’t see why anyone would continue to support TGA when it clearly does not support game devs, just a circle jerk for the wealthy.
I can’t see why anyone would continue to support TGA when it clearly does not support game devs, just a circle jerk for the wealthy.
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work!
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work!
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
Engaging in further goopin
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Engaging in further goopin
A man who is completely and incongruously oversexified compared to the rest of the characters in the game so you have license to make everyone else into sluts
This goes doubly for games with no characters in them
This goes doubly for games with no characters in them
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
A man who is completely and incongruously oversexified compared to the rest of the characters in the game so you have license to make everyone else into sluts
This goes doubly for games with no characters in them
This goes doubly for games with no characters in them
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🥳New 30-min video out!
I dive into different ways to rasterize dynamic effects (explosions, attacks, etc.) using Niagara, and show how to apply them to foliage & particles. Check it out!⬇️
I dive into different ways to rasterize dynamic effects (explosions, attacks, etc.) using Niagara, and show how to apply them to foliage & particles. Check it out!⬇️
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
🥳New 30-min video out!
I dive into different ways to rasterize dynamic effects (explosions, attacks, etc.) using Niagara, and show how to apply them to foliage & particles. Check it out!⬇️
I dive into different ways to rasterize dynamic effects (explosions, attacks, etc.) using Niagara, and show how to apply them to foliage & particles. Check it out!⬇️
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your boy had time this week to run an ART SHOWCASE for one of my favourite games of the past few years. big thanks to @charlesboury.fr for chatting with us and sharing his work!
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
your boy had time this week to run an ART SHOWCASE for one of my favourite games of the past few years. big thanks to @charlesboury.fr for chatting with us and sharing his work!
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an old Kate Bush drawing from 2021
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
an old Kate Bush drawing from 2021
I'll give you three guesses, and none of them can be NSFW.
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I'll give you three guesses, and none of them can be NSFW.
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low polyamory
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
low polyamory
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
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Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
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We're currently 60% off as part of the animal fest!!
Just look at what players are saying
feel stupid => s.team/a/1679210
Just look at what players are saying
feel stupid => s.team/a/1679210
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We're currently 60% off as part of the animal fest!!
Just look at what players are saying
feel stupid => s.team/a/1679210
Just look at what players are saying
feel stupid => s.team/a/1679210
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Ambrosia Sky: Act One is available now!
Your homecoming is not what you expected. An alien fungus has claimed your past and your present. Fight back with every tool at your disposal before it takes your future.
Maeve is waiting.
ambrosiasky.com
Your homecoming is not what you expected. An alien fungus has claimed your past and your present. Fight back with every tool at your disposal before it takes your future.
Maeve is waiting.
ambrosiasky.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Ambrosia Sky: Act One is available now!
Your homecoming is not what you expected. An alien fungus has claimed your past and your present. Fight back with every tool at your disposal before it takes your future.
Maeve is waiting.
ambrosiasky.com
Your homecoming is not what you expected. An alien fungus has claimed your past and your present. Fight back with every tool at your disposal before it takes your future.
Maeve is waiting.
ambrosiasky.com
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HI I GOT LAID OFF TODAY HOW ARE YOU
so uh, I need a new job, during one of the nastiest times in the games industry. SICK
I'm Nate! I've been in the industry for 6 years now. Experience in Unity, Unreal.
Been a 3D Artist mostly, have worn the hats of Outsourcing artist, VFX Artist, Art Lead
help
so uh, I need a new job, during one of the nastiest times in the games industry. SICK
I'm Nate! I've been in the industry for 6 years now. Experience in Unity, Unreal.
Been a 3D Artist mostly, have worn the hats of Outsourcing artist, VFX Artist, Art Lead
help
yooooo it's #PortfolioDay innit
Howdy I'm Nate! I make-a the 3D model. Sometimes it's #stylized Characters, Sometimes it's pew pews, and even sometimes it's something else entirely (environments I guess idk).
Anyway hi, good to meet you, follow me and I'll repost cool art or somethin.
Howdy I'm Nate! I make-a the 3D model. Sometimes it's #stylized Characters, Sometimes it's pew pews, and even sometimes it's something else entirely (environments I guess idk).
Anyway hi, good to meet you, follow me and I'll repost cool art or somethin.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
HI I GOT LAID OFF TODAY HOW ARE YOU
so uh, I need a new job, during one of the nastiest times in the games industry. SICK
I'm Nate! I've been in the industry for 6 years now. Experience in Unity, Unreal.
Been a 3D Artist mostly, have worn the hats of Outsourcing artist, VFX Artist, Art Lead
help
so uh, I need a new job, during one of the nastiest times in the games industry. SICK
I'm Nate! I've been in the industry for 6 years now. Experience in Unity, Unreal.
Been a 3D Artist mostly, have worn the hats of Outsourcing artist, VFX Artist, Art Lead
help
Making a grisly stew (oatmeal) out of a combination of my fallen foes' bodies (oats) and the runoff from a slurry made of their liquified dead comrades (oatmilk)
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Making a grisly stew (oatmeal) out of a combination of my fallen foes' bodies (oats) and the runoff from a slurry made of their liquified dead comrades (oatmilk)