Jake Benbow

Let's give away some free textures! These sketchy tiling textures are a great base for stylized materials in Substance Painter + Designer, Blender, Unreal Engine, all sorts really! I hope you enjoy using them, and please share the love! 🙌 jakebenbow.gumroad.com/l/JB_TilingPainterlyTextures_Vol2

If you try to please everyone you will please no one, and the worst thing your game can be is unremarkable.

Wrapped up the work on the latest prototype I'm calling KinMerge. It's like 2048 with a light strategy layer, all dressed up with a Dune vibe. It's pretty fun to knock around in, if anyone would be up for playtesting and giving me some feedback I'd be chuffed.

I know prototypes are supposed to be quick and dirty greybox, but sometimes an idea needs a bit more of a visual element. This is the early stages for figuring out my slide and merge dynasty sim - 2048 meets Dune

Fool King is now on Steam to Wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/4380860/...

Alternative headline: Andrew Willson lays off everyone who worked on successful Battlefield 6 to steal all the wealth they created.

DF is losing some really amazing people today. They are some of the smartest kindest people you can ever work with. Please be on the look out for them as they search for what's next!

Been having lots of fun with Tears of Metal. It's got a bit of Mount and Blade or Dynasty Warriors thing going on, all wrapped up in roguelike runs

Game prototyping is going well, I'm nearly at the point where its worth showing to some people... any devs on here that'd be interested in playing and giving me some thoughts?

Hey friends living in the UK, would you care to add your signature? Fuck these damn data centres.

I’ve spent the past months getting back into game dev. Four learning projects of classic games to refresh my skills and build upon what I’d learned during game jams years back. I’m finally out of learning land and today I started proper prototyping on one of my ideas 🙌

Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

Little test in Unity. It's surprisingly painless to get textures from the iPad over to the PC, I could definitely see it being a viable workflow for some assets. If there was too much back and forth I could see it being a pain though.

More hand painted stuff in Procreate - leaf texture

Playing around with iPad workflows - sculpting in Nomad and texturing in Procreate

The Banished Vault is on sale! It's a strategy game about the difficult and terror of space travel. It uses nearly-correct math to determine delta-v, resources strictly tracked in the world, and dice rolls to simulate anomalies. There's lots more but the included manual explains the rest!

Friendly reminder that Trash City Turbo is now available to wishlist on steam. If its something you like the look of, consider adding us to your wishlist, re-shraes appreciated! store.steampowered.com/app/4484260/...

Looking for work in a PART TIME capacity at the moment, if anyone needs the help of a Level Designer or Unity Generalist get in touch! 5 years industry experience, most recent work was with Bithell Games on TRON: Catalyst

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

Inching my way closer and closer to finishing this piece! I'm actually pleased with how it's turning out. Also wanted to thank @jakebenbow.bsky.social! I've been using his painterly texture maps and they work so incredibly well! It's been an absolute joy to use. #3d #gameart #gamedev

Take a look at some of the work I got to do on TRON: Catalyst! (Check out the rest of the art teams posts too) www.artstation.com/artwork/K3o9QX

Here is a little selection of my work on Tron: Catalyst. You can see more in replies, in-game, and also work from previous titles linked below

Myself and the rest of the old Bithell art team have put together our own art blast for TRON: Catalyst! A lot of love went into crafting our version of The Grid, so please go and show some love to all the very talented folks that made it happen. www.artstation.com/artwork/oJeWGw

I’m incredibly excited to be starting a new position as a 3D Artist at @futurlab.co.uk this week! 🥳 It's another step in my journey and one I'm really looking forward to, with some fun projects on the horizon and a super friendly and welcoming team!

Its been an absolute pleasure to work with Mike and the team at Bithell Games for 3 fantastic years. Cant speak highly enough of the team, truly some of the best folks ive had the honour to work with! 🙌🙌👏👏

Another certified Games Industry™ moment 🙃🫠 Gutted for the team, and everyone else involved. I've spent the last 3-and-a-bit years surrounded by the funniest, friendliest, and most talented people I've ever worked with. Here's hoping everyone lands on their feet (they should, they're amazing)

✋ hiiii. i was affected by this this is sad, and i'm sad, because this team was utterly stellar. i've learned SO much from these wonderful people, and i've never felt more able to be myself than at Bithell Games because i'm me, i blogged about why Bithell Games means so much to me. see below!

In the wake of the announcement regarding redundancies at Bithell Games please go and follow these wonderful, talented people go.bsky.app/U1R3UmV

My time at Bithell Games has been fantastic, but today it unfortunately comes to a close. I've been fortunate enough to work alongside some great people. If you're hiring then I can't recommend them enough, they're awesome. I'll have personal news to share next week.

My partner finished her first CGMA class and has started to post some of the work. Its super awesome seeing her progress and how far she has come. www.artstation.com/artwork/5WgkPP

Ok I need to sort my schedule out, this is my first in-person event in years so be kind. If you are: - Going to Develop - Want to talk state of the industry - Want to talk production - Want to scream into the void Lets do a thing please, HMU 🖤

🟠 TRON: Catalyst is finally out in the wild! 🔵 Been a great ride making this, and a memorable first credit. I hope everyone enjoys exploring the Grid as much as we enjoyed putting it together!

Back on environment art, lemme tell you about @jakebenbow.bsky.social . This is Jake’s FIRST GAME, and yet he arrived guns blazing, and delivered so many of the most beautiful environments and vehicles in the game. He’s a superstar, and is respected across the team for being just..that..damn..good

Process breakdown for the rocks in my current personal project. Sculpted in ZBrush, processed in Houdini, rendered in Unreal.

Been learning a bit of speedtree for a personal project I'm working up. Very out of my wheelhouse but happy with the results, might revisit them again later to make a few tweaks. Shoutout to @artofdape.bsky.social, would recommend his excellent vegetation course to anyone starting out with trees.

#01 - Overgrown Would it even be a monthly challenge if I didn't immediately fall behind schedule... Definitely need to improve my speed and try to not get bogged down in the weeds, but I do think this turned out really nice! #Mayterials2025 #Mayterials @theclubdiscord.bsky.social

friends are calling this unhinged but I am calling it honest 💜 follow Crescent County on Kickstarter today!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

Hey everyone! I'm working on a small cozy game project for my graduation and I'm currently doing some research to the target audience and what you like about cozy games. If you would fill this form in for me, that would be lovely!🫡🙏 It's only a few questions, thanks! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I’m now available for work so giving this collection of personal work a bump. Any and all shares are deeply appreciated right now and portfolio link in the bio. Cheers and hope you’re having a great day.

Top tip for folks looking for 3D art jobs in games: have chairs in your portfolios. Doors. Fuck, have a really good bit of skirting board. Character art is cool and sexy and eye catching, but damn, videogames need like a really large number of doors.

Enjoying my new life as a freelancer, hopefully I can continue to find jobs, have some stuff hopefully sorted (touch wood!) but in case I don't, I am always looking for potential projects. Drop me a DM if your interested!

Hey bluesky! We're hiring for a few positions! Come work with us on Project D :) -> halfmermaid.co/jobs 🌟 Senior Character Artist 🌟 Cinematic Manager 🌟 Senior Environment Artist (European timezones) 🌟 Level Designer (European timezones)

Something in the works...

My partner is doing a sponsored 100 Miles over March to raise money for the WWF. I'd appreciate if you could spare a few quid for a donation that goes towards improving the planet for all of us! Link here👇 www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

We're #hiring interns at @gravitywell.games! The industry can be a little bleak right now, but it's important we provide these avenues still. Our last two interns had a blast: 💸Paid Internship ❤️Empathetic AAA Team ✈️We'll pay for flights + housing Apply here! gravitywell.games #gamedev #gamedevjobs

We have a release date! 🎉

Wood plank sculpt practice in ZBrush