Jaron

Jaron

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Senior Animator at CD PROJEKT RED! I worked on Guild Wars 2, COD WWII, Marvel's Avengers, Never Alone, and some others. (He/Him/They) Check out my work at www.jganimations.com

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Hi everyone! I'm Jaron, Senior Animator at Crystal Dynamics. I've worked on a wild variety of things from Guild Wars 2, Call of Duty: WWII, a smattering of other small things, and most recently Marvel's Avengers. I do a lot of gameplay stuff. Here's a reel! #Animation #Gamedev vimeo.com/664052129

vimeo.comJaron Gittleman - Marvel's Avengers Game Animation ShowreelAnimation Reel of some of the stuff I did on Marvel's Avengers. Responsible for enemy animation ONLY, with the exception of the final shot with the Iron Man…

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Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

Game studios die twice, if not more these days.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

BioWare, which was once hundreds of employees across three offices, had around 50 staff remaining when EA closed the studio this morning. EA gutted BioWare after the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard last year, as we reported then: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Thought you were done with Night City? Well, Night City isn't quite done with you. Patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077’s Edgerunners 2 Update (2.5) are now available for you to ready up and review before going live on the streets tomorrow. Jack in to view the key changes: cp2077.ly/2.5_Patch_No...

It's cool to work on Cyberpunk, a world in which the net is a fractured mess of local networks because rampant AI destroyed it, and then watch it happen in real time in the real world.

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As someone who needs a translator for whatever the tech people are talking about, this was quite helpful as an explanation

between the catastrophic PHP vuln and the intermediate cert vuln and AI models that can turn a proof of concept into a bot net in like 10mins we’re in for a wild 24 hours

Recently just watched thru this whole show and without a doubt it's one of the funniest and most charming shows I ever did see. I wanna live in this city so bad

GKIDS Films@gkids.com

In this city, you never know what the day will bring. 🏙️ Take home CITY THE ANIMATION on Blu-ray Collector's Edition, packed with extras including a 72-page booklet, art cards, and a mini-poster! Out on December 15. Pre-order at the GKIDS Store! ☀️ brnw.ch/21x6pBr

I think one of the single toughest things about game development is making sure everyone is on the same page about the names of things. A throwaway name for a concept or a feature can end up being what you call it for the rest of production, or someone will call it something else and it will change

And y'all, I'm so bad at making things. A year will go by and I'll be like "What idiot called it this?", and reader...it's me, I did that

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At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

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New Edgerunners, new chrome, new playstyle? Sounds like another REDstreams! Join us this Wednesday, Oct 21st at 5 PM CEST for a closer look at Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Update (2.5) and some of the features coming to Cyberpunk 2077: cyberware customization, a new dual-wielding playstyle, and more!

Finished CONTROL Resonant last night. Had a pretty good time. While the set pieces and writing were fantastic, the combat kinda left a little something to be desired I think. The falter/dominance loop was sometimes too hard to maintain.

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CONTROL, level-wise for me has always been taking that moment from the original Max Payne dream sequence and cranking it to a billion. I think visually this game is that at its peak, I really loved everything about it. Tho the gravity flipping stuff felt a little clunky at times.

Despite my gripes with the combat I had a good time overall with CONTROL Resonant and I cannot fucking wait to see what comes next!

Finished CONTROL Resonant last night. Had a pretty good time. While the set pieces and writing were fantastic, the combat kinda left a little something to be desired I think. The falter/dominance loop was sometimes too hard to maintain.

Having to unlock things you weren't using just to boost power also didn't feel great, and made me wish there was a weapon wheel or something so all those powers could be at my fingertips in any combat scenario.

The enemy variety, visually, was great! But I didn't feel like I had to approach any of them differently mechanically, outside of the ones with armor or the extra weak points.

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If game studios are shifting to the Hollywood model, game workers are going to have to shift more quickly to the union model in order to survive.

Christopher Dring@dringo.bsky.social

Lower pay? Not usually. It’s just so they don’t have to fire folks once their job is done. They can just be reassigned by their actual company to a new project at another studio. It’s the Hollywood model, basically. The whole industry is semi-pivoting that way.

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Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

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I've just learned that Freeplay has removed me as a sponsor for Parallels due to an accusation from a speaker that I am a "zionist". Where did the speaker get this idea? Because Unpacking was included in a listicle in an online Jewish publication a few days ago. I didn't even know about the article.

Is Ace Combat 8 the greatest video game of all time? No. But also fuck yes it is c'mon are you fucking kidding me this shit SLAPS

It was pretty good! The dialogue was just kinda okay but that boy could squeak good when he screams so it was pretty funny. Wonderfully directed and shot though, really enjoyed the look and feel the whole way thru

Ace Combat 8 is pretty darn good so far even just 3 missions in. The new flight model takes a little getting used to but it didn't take too long to feel like an ace again B)

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Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...

epiloguegaming.comWhat Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue GamingEarlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...

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Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍