Zach Soares

Zach Soares

@voxels.ca

Voxel Art, animation and game design 🐟 Co-founder/Creative Director @bunnyhug.games 🐰 Made Moonglow Bay and many other things 🎨 Voxels.ca Bi 🏳️‍🌈 they/them EN/FR/PT-BR

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I'm available for work! - Characters - Rigging and Animations - Environments Art I've worked on Teardown, Vampire Crawlers, Moonglow Bay and many more! Feel free to DM me or email zachary.soares@zsinked.com

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To all the Moonglow Bay players and fans: thank you so much, and we are sorry we couldn't do anything special this 5th anniversary - we are kinda locked out of our own game, and it has been gutting me for a while...

5 years of Moonglow Bay Ty to all those who've played the game, and to those who continue to play it 🖤🤍

Bolsonaro is gonna flee to Florida any minute now, the coward and rat. Sorry, that’s an insult to rats

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VENCER

Aves do Brasil@avesbrasil.bsky.social

🇧🇷Araracanga 🌎Ara macao Conservação: Pouco Preocupante A araracanga é uma ave psittaciforme da família Psittacidae. 📷 Júlio Silveira

I’m crying of joy. Fuck yes 😭❤️ you fuckin did it my Brazilian family. Now let’s quash the fascists for good. Weed out all the stains and build a safer future

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I love being reminded that the audience really doesn’t give a shit about the developers. Like, forget that one of the most influential studios in our industry was just executed by its publisher, just make sure the product continues on the assembly lines!

IGN@ign.com

After hearing news of BioWare's closure on Wednesday, over 75,000 Mass Effect fans have signed a petition demanding that EA put another studio in charge of the franchise or license out the IP. https://bit.ly/4siIubW

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Less than 12 weeks ago, EA was effectively purchased by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law for $55B in a deal that saddled the company with around $20B in debt. 12 weeks. That's how long it took for them to shutter a decades-old studio in BioWare and deem people surplus to requirements.

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Maybe if you struggle this much to make "enough" money when you snatch up studios with the pedigree of Bioware and the likes of what was visceral games, you shouldn't be allowed to buy studios any more 🤷‍♂️ Greedy fucks.

HAHAHA wow I missed out on a marketing gig. But not only me, the whole marketing firm I would work with also lost out on the gig because the Client decided to do it all with AI after getting our quote for the work. what a fucking joke

This is where the industry funding is going btw, and we'll never see this come back. Even if investors pull out now to save their own asses, they'll have gained a massive lack of trust in tech (and inadvertently games as well) and we'll all be worse for it.

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it really does feel like they just got away with unprecedented amount of theft of expertise, and are now profiting off of it while replacing the professional opportunities for the very crafts and humans it trained on I never thought I would see the concept of expertise get so devalued

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Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

Here's a neat trick. Commit more resources to increasing your audience on PS5 with games and that can carry the console for another few years at no extra loss! Funner fact, those same games will fatten up your eventual PS6 lineup without performance concerns! Yay!

VGC@videogameschronicle.com

PlayStation 6’s memory costs alone exceed $680 per console, it’s claimed, potentially suggesting an unprecedented price tag for the next-gen machine. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/playsta...

Let's be real. They MUST know their PS6 audience is like a fraction of their current PS5 owners, right? Like, who has the ability or excitement of another console when the current one has such a small catalogue of exclusives?

There’s always a great rush of joy and contentment after I’ve completed an audiobook chapter recording ✨

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Kenney Shape is now FREE! (and it'll remain free, forever) ✨ Previously a paid tool, I'm releasing it as a gift to the community. Today's update will be the final one, with no further updates planned. That way I can focus on new software & projects! kenney.itch.io/kenney-shape

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Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Ze, an artist and animator in the North East of England. I'm an expert in voxel art, but don't let the cubes fool you! My range within the medium is broad. I'm available for illustrative work, game art and animations! Site: Voxels.ca Email: zachary.soares@zsinked.com

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This is time! We're again looking for animators capable of working in #Blockbench. Please share your most impressive blockbench animations in this thread, or please RT it if you want to help someone get a job on @hytale.bsky.social 💫

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Ze, an artist and animator in the North East of England. I'm an expert in voxel art, but don't let the cubes fool you! My range within the medium is broad. I'm available for illustrative work, game art and animations! Site: Voxels.ca Email: zachary.soares@zsinked.com

Using your phone camera to light the dark corners ahead (phone light control would be independent from player movement)

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going to animate our horror game character this morning. Best part is finding the character personality in the process

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Last one of the MC, resting (sat sideways on benches). We'll have the dog companion lay below them trying to sleep

Using your phone camera to light the dark corners ahead (phone light control would be independent from player movement)

Zach Soares@voxels.ca

going to animate our horror game character this morning. Best part is finding the character personality in the process

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Using your phone camera to light the dark corners ahead (phone light control would be independent from player movement)

Zach Soares@voxels.ca

going to animate our horror game character this morning. Best part is finding the character personality in the process

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⏰ATTENTION BLUESKY⏰ Are you working on an indie project you to show off? or just have something that you really wanna shout about to a room full of people?? Are you based in South East england or willing to travel there this November??? Down 2 Play are still looking for exhibitors & speakers (1/2)

going to animate our horror game character this morning. Best part is finding the character personality in the process

I’ve been working as a bearer for funerals for the last few weeks. Done 6 so far and I’m shocked at how….distant (?) English culture makes the whole process. There’s a very neat process though where we bearers bow any time we present, place or move the body. Very kind hearted

By distant, i mean that there’s no open coffin, once they’re dead, you no longer see the body and the coffin is kept at a distance behind a curtain. I’m used to Portuguese and Italian funerals where you go up and kiss the forehead, hold the hand of the deceased and make a muttering prayer.