Technical Artist @ ZA\UM | 🏳️🌈 | Previously: Ubisoft, Codemasters | BAFTA Connect 22/23 | Views are my own
Game Devs, join a union. It’s truly the only way to fight back against the endless waves of redundancies and means if you get caught in one there’ll be someone there to help you fight it personally!
UK game devs: https://gameworkers.co.uk
Joining once you’ve received the letter informing you you’re at risk, is too late.
Union membership is a preventative measure, not a reactive one. Join NOW!
@shivoa The most recent F1 title still used Ego! So it's not totally dead
Spent about 8 hours over the long weekend learning Linux 101. Feel pretty comfortable using the command line now.
As a little project to test my abilities I set up a locally hosted Apache2 server, setup a couple of VirtualHost sites on it. Relatively straight forward but a nice little proof of ability.
Every time the person says "Header File" in this C programming tutorial series the generated closed captions say "Heterophile" and it gets me every time
Can’t believe some fuck ruined what was otherwise an incredible day for my friend. I’m so upset for them and wish I could make it better in some way. I hope the negatives pass and the positive memories are what stand out in the end
How am I meant to add logging to my Python code without making my Python code a complete and utter mess?
This greatly upsets me. I don't want lots of random calls to LOGGER spammed in all my code
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Just used a python metaclass for the first time in several years. First time since moving from 2.7 and it worked with little to no debugging. I am far too happy about this achievement.
Writing code like this makes me feel like I maybe deserve my title of tech artist? Lol
Need UK based personal trainer recommendations.
Totally unsure as to how remote Personal Trainers work too, so any explanation on that would be great.
If you’re from Leamington Spa area and have a irl PT recommendation, i’ll also happily take those!
Artstation Trending right now
Sorry to the devs that worked hard on it, but it hurts :(
In case you wanted my thoughts on Discord's new GG Sans font:
It hurts my eyes to look at it, it kind of ghosts, does that floating-off-the-screen thing
Need a good video game to spend my Christmas holiday playing. Suggestions? Something meaty but achievable.
Coming down from a 2 hour session of hyperfocus. Time to curl up and sleep for a billionty years
Alright #TechArt what's your favoruite bit of software, or tool or technique for making things easier for everyone else?
I'm doing a lot of digging into package managers and deployment, need inspiration and resources
A fun, insightful, sometimes surprising game to play.
You answer one question at a time and all you have to do is gauge whether you're above or below average. Afterwards you see what side everyone else has picked. Obviously, in a perfectly representative sample of people who assess themselves correctly, it should always be 50:50.
So the real challenge in this game comes after each reveal: Why is this skewed?
Got access to post on Cohost, but it feels like a way more "serious" place. Everyone's writing cool editorial pieces and I just wanna post shit like
"hahaha, saw the coolest dog today, it went ZOOOOOM up the path"
Mastodon is dead, long live Hive?
I'm alright, thanks, this is like when I got Snapchat just as all the "in touch" people were moving over to Kik (I still don't know what it is) and Whatsapp.
I will not break the habit of a lifetime of being super-slow to adopt the cool popular platform.
as a legit intro: Hello!! My name is Chris (he/him) 🏳️🌈, and I am a Senior VFX Artist at Blizzard on the Overwatch 2 team, just recently left Mediatonic on the Fall Guys team.
I've been in games for just over 3.5 years and before that I was a games recruiter, and before that trained as an Actor!
I love stylized Visuals (any medium) and big PUNCHY colourful animation! 👏
