Ben Formaker-Olivas

Love to see it. Thanks LightBox!!

However hard you think it might be to keep pushing and doing your best while the industry you love so intensely crumbles around you, it’s a trillion times harder. (And this isn’t just isolated to game dev)

I had the absolute pleasure of seeing #Wildwood, and I am just in awe of LAIKA Studios’ artistry, dedication, and imagination. People in the audience (myself included) were gasping and exclaiming because it had us all so enchanted. This is such a testament to *human* ingenuity.

🔴LIVE - today we are VAMPIRES who like to have FUN!!!! I am so excited to make choices and vibe out and play this game!! that's right it's The Blood of Dawnwalker!!!! 🧛⚰️🦇🩸 www.twitch.tv/halfmoonjoe

steam: this game you've had installed for two years but never played has an update. we'll download it next week me: no you'll download it right now motherfucker. and i will sit here and watch it download. steam: so you're gonna play it? me: fuck you

Kinda wild but @nextplayau.bsky.social got offered a preview card for the next Riftbound set! 😱 #Riftbound

Massive shoutout to @riotgames.com for sending this incredible horde of goodies to celebrate the launch of Riftbound: Origins!✨ Very excited to dive into the game and hopefully pull some epic champ cards👀 #RiftboundOrigins #Gifted

🌱 Announcement! Next Gamedev PerkUp will be September 13th, 10am - 2pm @ Good People Coffee's gorgeous venue in Santa Monica! ☕ ✨As always, RSVP is required for attendance/name badge! We'll be doing some quick check-ins when folks arrive. We'll see u there! 🌞 🎊 tinyurl.com/GamedevPerkU...

Who am I gonna see there? 🤠

A new rules update for Commander coming with #MTGEternities: Mike Turian shares that starting with the set, Legendary Spacecraft and Legendary Vehicles will be eligible to be played as your Commander!

Had so much seeing @dimension20.bsky.social at the Hollywood Bowl last night! Met folks that flew across the country to come see this. Great way to kick off pride month 🏳️‍🌈

Heroes of the Storm is 10 years old today! I started one year later as an Associate Environment Artist. My first assignment was to redesign the "King's Crest" healing fountain to be more in-line with the game's final art style.

Blocking out the first half of this assignment. Gonna have Omega (awesome rig from Agora) roll forward and bounce up the barrels and crates to reach a door that it’ll open with a button press using the tail 🦝

Had fun being on Team Turtles, even if just in a small way 🐢🍕

I like to think of Blueprinting as Orc Speak. "You have thing?" "YOU HAVE THING!" "Thing valid?" "THING VALID!" "Okay now destroy thing and make NEW THING."

Radiance

*taps the sign with incomprehensible force* Any video game can bring back their FULL voice cast IMMEDIATELY during the strike, once they agree to enforceable AI protections via a SAG interim agreement, and the game CAN still keep its non-union actors after doing so.

Out on my birthday, "Perrenation" for #mtg and it feels right. "In botany, perennation is the ability of organisms, particularly plants, to survive from one germinating season to another, especially under unfavourable conditions such as drought or winter cold." Thanks to AD Forrest Schehl!

My "Tragic Romance" Secret Lair deck previews dropped! I'm so glad these have finally been released 🖤

wait-- we can post gifs now!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I've been playing Monster Hunter! How did you know? Here's a little work in progress I started last week! He's just too adorable not to make! 😭

Hey Bluesky, here's my "obligatory reel post that's gonna be pinned" later! I'm a 3D Animator in Vancouver who loves animating dynamic stuff.

90’s/Y2K themed party vibes were immaculate

Part 2 of the assignment. We were told to add motion along the X and Y axes. I also remixed some audio in Audacity to pan and follow the saucer from left to right across the screen.

Never thought I’d be so excited to animate a pendulum swing, but here we are 😌

I've been quiet on here because I have my head down job-hunting and also because the world is on fire, but I've been tweaking some of my animations and did a more extensive overhaul on this one. I think it's a big improvement!

Bari being released in Smite 2 means I can start sharing some of my work that I did one her! This jump is one of the most satisfying things I've ever gotten to animate. If you jump once it cycles back to the run, but if spammed it is a perfectly looping spin!

This was put on the back burner for a little bit, but I collaborated with @theycallmesal.bsky.social oRPG97 for him to add some 2DFX on this Ganondorf animation I made awhile back and the result came out amazing. Please be sure to check Sal's work guys! Rig by @stoff.bsky.social

Haven't had a chance to take advantage of the addition of videos yet so now's the time! Did a little turn-around composition of my Zelda models. #zelda #fanart #3d #model #gameart

Latest animation assignment—animate three different types of balls to show differences in weight and movement. I decided to add some environmental interaction for an added challenge. This was my first time animating a rigged prop too ⚽️🎳🏐

Bouncing ball assignment for my intermediate animation class. We move to using some simple rigs next since this is just an assessment, but it felt good to get this classic assignment out of the way 🤩

Devastating. :(

My bf and I hit the Arcane-themed boba experience in Koreatown 🧨

I’ve finally done it. What an absolutely amazing game @larianstudios.com! Can’t wait to replay on a joint campaign 😎

I spoke with trans and genderqueer developers about working in games in the US amid an anti-trans administration and harassment from online communities. Many feel left behind by the companies they work for. “Can’t piss off the bigots, because they spend money.” www.wired.com/story/game-d...

Another update on my Keyple game project --- Some of my recent designs for it. Finally making an full ingame shot is helping a ton with planning out the rest of my environments

I had a dream where the youths™ didn’t know what Pig Latin was, and I had to explain that it was useful for passing notes because phones weren’t a thing when I was a kid. Even in my dreams I can’t be young 🥲

Here's a little taste of the surfing in action! It's been so fun working on the animation for this, I can't wait for you to see more. ⚔️🌊

It's back! My process post for Storm the Seedcore, my most popular piece, is up on my site. thanks everyone who read and enjoyed it, and also thanks to those who asked for it's return. I hope to keep adding more of my processes over time :) www.jasonrainville.com/blog/process...

so this happened and it sucks, Splash Damage has always been the people, and not sure the studio will be the same ever again, I joined the studio in 2016 and made more friends over the span of these years than ever in my life

LA is going through it. This car got trapped just outside my apartment, and both my place and my parents’ house are close to fires/evacuation zones. Stay safe, and listen if you are told to evacuate. Make sure you get alerts: emergency.lacity.gov/alerts/notif...

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

For those evacuating with pets in LA: Hilton’s Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton, Tru and Canopy brands are all 100% pet friendly. Even cats! And a lot of hotels are waiving pet fees atm. Good on u Hilton! Pun intended: that’s hot.

If you cant afford art, or cant draw or whatever yourself, USE PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES NOT AI.

Put a drawing tutorial I made last year about raptor feet here. It covers some anatomical features and shares my approach to studying animal structures. I hope it will be helpful！ #tutorial #animal