Oliver Lawson

Oliver Lawson

@olawson.bsky.social

https://kalapaint.app - Working on Kala Paint, powerful new painting software AD / Artist / TA / Programmer Cambridge based, learning/building a lot of random stuff. May occasionally post paintings.

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Sneak peek at some new themeing in latest Kala Paint update! I thought I just had weird retro taste always spending stupid amounts of time custom-themeing my Dear-ImGui/Qt programs in the past, but turns out there are other artists who get it too 😄 Thanks Thundeer!!

Thundeer 🦝@thundeer.bsky.social

i've been in love with kala paint every since i discovered it, and today they released a win98 theme that's soo gooood i have to share finally made me leave photoshop after almost a decade, and it keeps getting better every week! #kalapaint

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tons of things added and adjusted since Kala Paint came out! simply amazing to see all the art created with it a lil boost if you're looking to try it out over the coming weekend ^^

Kala Paint@kalapaint.bsky.social

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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Oliver is a good friend, experienced illustrator, and amazing coder too! He's only gone and built a new paint app around his super fast brush engine. "Kala Paint" is chock full of artist-first features, and growing in power, community, and interest by the day. Check out the free trial!

Kala Paint@kalapaint.bsky.social

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

a little Kala Paint painting between coding things @kalapaint.bsky.social I added a smoothed speedup feature to the Timelapse Manager for this that everyone can now use! I used it here to make the rendering stage play 6x faster(!). A bit more fun to watch without the sketch going by in 2 frames

Oliver Lawson reposted

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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Behold... Apparance Town Toy! Tinker with a tiny town. Fiddle with procedural forests, towns, and skyscrapers. Free download, link below. #ScreenshotSaturday #ProcGen

I've been using Sam's software (Apparance) as an insanely powerful runtime #procgen tool for Unity/UE games for the past few years and it's insanely underrated. Some of my work is on that article, check it out!

Sam Swain@sam.apparance.uk

If you're intrigued by our Apparance #ProcGen middleware, we did a great interview with 80 Level at the beginning of the year that covers a lot of popular questions: 80.lv/articles/the...

Few days learning #godot 2D by remaking Dungeon Keeper with Zelda assets so I could focus on code - digging! - NPC hijinks with courage/exploration goals/avoidance/etc, not just stamina/hp! - custom Navmesh to suit dynamic maps! - Fog, and shader minimap! - Save Files! - Local Multiplayer!

Hi BSky! Gonna be posting a bunch of different but always interesting things on this account. I've been an artist/AD in the games industry since 2010, the past couple of years I switched to TA and #procgen programming roles. Here's a 3d modelling program I'm making to learn C++ with #raylib

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