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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

Got a promotion! 🍾✨💍

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

terrorists storming the capitol vs one black woman in a cute dress can you spot the difference, kids?

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melissa kelly 💙

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6 years

I see a post almost every day from artists apologizing for not posting art Y'all. Unless someone is paying you money for art, you don't owe anyone even a doodle. Take time off, let yourself be human, and stop making toxic promises to yourself. Treat yourselves better than that.

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1 year

I think it's cool finding this out from Twitter dot com and not my own company I think that's super cool

The Verge

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1 year

Activision Blizzard lays off esports staff as it faces potential dramatic changes for the Overwatch League

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melissa kelly 💙

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5 years

Huh... This is what my profile looks like. I never thought it looked pretty, I always wanted a tiny nose. I even got a nose job when I was 20 to at least straighten it out Seeing two gorgeous women with my profile feels so... surreal?

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

God I swear our own company tries so hard to slaughter any good will the actual devs who make the game have built Overwatch doesn't even use this creepy distopian chart, our writers have eyes. The artists: have eyes. Producers, directors, etc, as far as I know also all have eyes

Activision Blizzard

@ATVI_AB

2 years

With @King_Games ' innovative Diversity Space Tool, the character design process now has a tangible way of avoiding tokenism, stereotypes, and exclusion. Learn more about this new system on our Newsroom:

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2 years

just wait until he ults 😳

Overwatch

@OverwatchEU

2 years

Earnable Rewards 💪 New Control Map 🧊 #OnePunchMan Collab 👊 Seasonal Events 💘 #Overwatch2 Season 3 and an all new Battle Pass arrive Feb 7! Free to play for everyone on console & PC.

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

furries have been making bids for unique art for decades without harming the environment catch up

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

Skins take a looooong time to make The 3D model alone on one legendary skin can take 2-3 months This doesn't include the time it takes for concept, skinning, animation overrides, and potentially unique VFX and sounds

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@PushDustIn

2 years

Game devs, what's something that you wish the general public knew about making games?

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melissa kelly 💙

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6 years

I love going to a Women in Gaming event and getting stuck in a conversation with a guy who: 1. Explained to me the games Insomniac makes 2. Was soooo impressed that I was able to be hired 3. Explained to me GDC, the con I am currently at

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melissa kelly 💙

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6 years

She's all done! Just in time for #CutieSaturday ⚠️ALSO I'm starting my hunt for full-time, in-studio work!⚠️ Wanting to relocate to either the LA or Seattle area. Please RT to spread the good word! Portfolio: e-mail: missmissa92 @gmail .com

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

17 days

2nd round of layoffs this year alone Amazing job, Blizzard

Dexerto

@Dexerto

17 days

Microsoft laid off 650 more employees including Xbox and Activision Blizzard

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melissa kelly 💙

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10 months

It's wild how I haven't worked at Insomniac for two years but I've had my credit cards flagged for fraud. It's so chilll. So cool. I feel awful for my colleagues that have their unfinished work scrutinized ON TOP of having to freeze their credit scores for the holidays

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

these two approach you at a bar, wdyd?

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@BUSTAFELLOW

2 years

I literally closed the box after I opened my present from Megan I could not believe it

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

He's done!! I've been wanting to color this for a while so I tossed him into @Blizzard_Ent 's 2018 art contest! Now I'm gonna go put my brace on my wrist. Rest, my sweet baby... #Overwatch @PlayOverwatch #Reinhardt #OWL2018

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

no ty 😌🖤

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 years

@axl99 I think about that ALL THE TIME.

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

8 months

I think I still have a job ??? So far anyways... Slack is just full of everyone telling each other how much they love each other. This is nauseating.

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

I'm going to end this once and for all. No one is a game dev. You're all free now

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

I'm SO excited to announce that today is my first day as a Character Artist on @PlayOverwatch at @Blizzard_Ent !! WHAT???????

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

So uh... I guess I'm moving to Burbank, CA Because YA GIRL WILL BE AN ASSOCIATE ARTIST AT @insomniacgames WHAT THE FUCK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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@_mlktea

3 months

Eeeee!!! It’s finally here!!! ; u ; My first mythic is RELEASED!!!

Overwatch

@PlayOverwatch

3 months

One Ultra-sized season coming up 🤩 🦸 Ultrawatch themed Premium Battle Pass 🎀 Pink Mercy’s return for 100M players 😈 Mythic Calamity Empress Ashe ✨ And SO much more Season 11: Super Mega Ultrawatch launches June 20 💪

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

You know what drives our diversity? The devs! We have people who work on the game from these cultures. That's it! That's literally it. If this creepy chart was made for the executive team to let us do our thing, that might track.

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

10 months

Artists, show us your improvement over the last 5 years! From making Overwatch fanart to making Overwatch... devart (???) cannon art (?????)

Ying Liu 🌷🌙

@yingleberry

10 months

Artists, show us your improvement over the last 5 years! Raihan 🐉 and Niran (Lifeweaver) 🪷

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 years

day-3 claire is me at the end of working on an asset

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

Pulled apart this cute little hearth to make cute little Hearth Paladin she's tired of this unholy bullshit

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

Trunks is another word for boy panties Concept by InHyuk Lee: Made

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

Well boy howdy #IamPOCinPlay I'm a 1st gen Iraqi American and a character artist at @insomniacgames I'm an industry baby but I've got three prettyyyyy sweet titles under my belt and CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO SEE HOW COOL THEY ARE!!! 🖤🖤🖤

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

I only wish people shat on tech bros this much for crypto mining, too. I hadn't heard about how destructive this stuff was until artists got involved and I think that SUCKS.

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

The last suit I made at Insomniac is FINALLY ready to be revealed!! #SpiderManNoWayHome for the Remaster 🕷🕸 Thank you so much Damon Cimarusti and @GavinGoulden for pushing this through legal for me and getting renders 🥺 Full post on my ArtStation 👇

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

Venusaur is DONE. I can finally put my trainer and him together 💚 Hilda's face is modeled after the ultimate #cutieSaturday @Mort3mer Venusaur concept by the talented @arvalis

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

This is the first skin I've made that's been publicly revealed and there's no render I could ever make that would show this skin off better

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

1 year

Omg not our pride voicelines getting leaked!!!! 😭😭

Fronvie 🍉

@krabbydaddykrab

1 year

a classic

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

Just spent the last couple days doing some portfolio reviews. While I can't do individual feedback right now, I wanted to share some links for getting hired for art in video games! Some advice may not be directed at your field but the rules of art portfolios pretty universal 🔽

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

The cleric you've been sassing all day and you just used your last potion

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 years

@beautifuldaddi You responding to yourself in 2015 is sending me

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

1 year

I made this 🤍☕️ Her backpack has little pressure gauges that jiggle around too 😭🤍🤍

Overwatch Cavalry

@OWCavalry

1 year

Upcoming #Overwatch2 Item Shop Skin: Barista Sojourn ☕

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

If gaming companies can make more normal looking clothing like Blizz did with the Mercy cardigan, I'd be decked t f out. Stop with the giant decal of your logo on a graphic shirt. Stop that.

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

1 year

lifeweaver is perfect

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

Remembering when my shitty ex shit his pants because he refused to get up from his League of Legends game

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

As someone new to the industry & has no clue who they're talking about, this is why whisper networks don't work The most vulnerable people are new (usually young) people (usually women) who literally cannot know what happened at past events unless someone tells them

Betty Jiang

@BettyWanJiang

4 years

Remember the bald headed crusty assed "well known" artist who went around groping female devs, and ended up having his face bit after trying to pour drinks down the throat of a girl whose already very intoxicated at the Massive Black workshop after party ?

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 years

Being an artist is so badass You literally think of something and then conjure it into existence We're goddamn magical 🧙‍♀️✨

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

My friends fiance left Microsoft to start at #TelltaleGames His first day was Monday Today he came in to a check and instructions on how to file for unemployment The incompetence would be funny if it wasn't so fucking infuriating Fuck @telltalegames You actively ruin lives

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 months

not me making a bug in jira just to find out my own game got me

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

8 months

I can't help but laugh--but like not a good laugh--that the folks at Riot that I just messaged and asked I they're okay are messaging me now 😭😭😭😭

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

Lemon honey tarts! 🍋🐝🌱

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

the feed's sleepin on takoyaki zen

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

just can't stop making robots and foxes!!

Lilly Arredondo

@parasiteDoll_

2 years

What was the first game you worked on and which was the latest?👀

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

CAN I GET A SHEEEEEEEEEEEESH Just got promoted from associate to mid character artist on @PlayOverwatch !!! 🖤🤍🧡 😭

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

@BalkyBoi @losing______you @1followernodad Love is wanting the best for your partner, not wanting ownership of your partner.

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

The ArtStation challenge is over but I think I'll keep messing with this later!

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

1 year

There's confidentiality on sensitive topics and then there's radio silence. Saying nothing to T4 about OWL after the announcement is wild. Absolutely goofy behavior. AND T4 HAS GOOD NEWS TO SHARE TODAY. This shit's like clockwork lol

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

All done!! Toon shaders are NEAT!! I had a ton of fun with this project and learned a LOT about modeling hair and new shaders Thank you so much to @Lolimoog for their amazing design!! 🌸 #3dmodeling #3dart #gamedev and a belated #cutieSaturday @cutiesaturday

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 years

@babsdraws MY QUEEEEN

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

@egoraptor You need the perfect male form

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

This is so many words to say actually nothing lolol. He cites procedural work--something devs have been using for years--as "ai", that's just straight up incorrect. AI is no where close to making game-ready assets. 2D AI art that's made is unusable, no turnarounds, no callouts

Jon Lai

@Tocelot

2 years

we're entering a new era in AI-first game creation ☀️ up to now AAA games like Red Dead Redemption 2 cost $500M and took over 3,000 people 8 years to make with generative AI, small teams can ship at near AAA quality but at a fraction of the cost & time a few thoughts 👇

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 years

Happy birthday, pretty lady 🖤🖤🖤 @Mort3mer

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

When you apply the wrong material again

SLEFFY

@DecibelOverkill

4 years

cube croissant

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

DC not deploying national guard meanwhile back in 2020 it didn't seem to be an issue

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@BeschlossDC

4 years

Please take this seriously: The Defense Department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol, reports @byaaroncdavis .

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melissa kelly 💙

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4 years

I’m so weepy haha this is my first trailer drop in industry and WOW. What an absolutely insane feeling I really really hope you guys love these games even half as much as we do. They’re SO special and everyone put their whole hearts into them (also they’re really fun)

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

1 year

This article is such a circle-jerk. Wow. I actually can't pick one part of it to talk about it. It's so overwhelmingly bad. TLDR: Bobby is still Bobby and gets credit for devs' great work and passes the blame of any failures to a conspiracy against him

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@Variety

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“Playing games is such a visceral experience,” Activision Blizzard CEO Kotick explains. “We’re getting to the point that the game itself is able to create its own content in real time. That will be exquisite.”

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

And some of y'all will EXPLAIN yourselves like "Sorry my foot got cut off, but I brought my iPad to the hospital and I'll be posting soon! Sorry! I'm so sorry!" Like Jesus. You don't owe anyone even an explanation. You don't owe anyone your hard work.

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

It feels weird to say but today is my last day at Insomniac 🖤🕸 I'm so amazed at how great these devs are and how kind everyone has been to me these last few years. Love y'all tons!! 🥂

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

They're DONE! Two oni boba cuties 💙🧋🌸 Concept by @danipanteez

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 months

@NinaModaffari I got charged $250 for missing my appointment to go over how my ADHD meds were working 🤪

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@_mlktea

3 years

unfortunately an evergreen tweet

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

Wait “five golden rings” are just 5 more goddamn birds???

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 years

So uh... I asked He said yes @thunderdom3 and I are hella engaged

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

2 years

when you're yelling at me on the internet, this is who you're yelling at

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

These "what's your hot take" are lame and just circulate more bad energy as if things aren't a bummer enough as is ✌️😊

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

We get all pissy when people ask us for free art yet here you go, doing the same thing to yourselves. People know where the unfollow button is if they're really that pissy about it. But chances are, in the giant flooded news feed, no one notices. It's just you bullying yourself.

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 years

Best workstation I've ever had ✨💕✨

Insomniac Games

@insomniacgames

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New year, new decade, new office #2020

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@_mlktea

1 year

@Jay3OW This one

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

1 year

Update: We've now had comms from our general manager which is a positive. I'd love if the Overwatch Team and OWL were more linked in the future My heart hurts for the people on OWL who've lost their jobs 🖤🤍🧡

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 years

All done!! 🧟‍♂️💜👻 Some fan art for ⁦ @monsterprom ⁩⁦ Happy belated anniversary!! 🎂🍰🥂

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

@ZachJLandes @Gizmodo They're patenting the code and nodes they wrote. This is a garbo clickbait article with no proof of anything in it, just buzz words. Lazy journalism

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

5 years

I've only had Strive for a day and a half but if anything happened to him ... #StarlightBrigade @TWRPband

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@_mlktea

4 years

@HannahTempler I feel this pain

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

4 years

"I'm leaving. Try and stop me." 🔥🩸⚔

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@_mlktea

4 years

gal pals harley & ivy 🌿♦

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@_mlktea

5 years

YAS. ⚠️QUEENS AND KINGS FROM ALL AROUND⚠️ WE HAVE SO SO SOOOO MANY INTERNSHIPS THAT OPENED TODAY Environment Programming Core Design PM Character UX Animation Rigging Writing

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melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

3 years

No matter how good you think your workplace is, there's a whisper network. There is always a whisper network. This is more than Blizzard. This is more than game dev. When it's rotten from the inside, there's strong incentive to keep it very private.

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@_mlktea

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@b0gur girl, our team only makes art not your precious silly funny patches dm aaron

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@_mlktea

6 years

@kchironis "I WANT my industry to be volitile and unsure!"

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@_mlktea

6 years

I GOT OFFERED AN ART TEST. I'M MOVING FORWARD. WISH ME MORE LUCK!!! M O R E L U C K

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1 year

She’s finally LIVE!!! Llama pajama is THRIVING!!!!! 💖🤍🩵 Amazing concept by Tina Wei (tinaweiart on insta) 🎨 Rig by Marcy Lee 🦴 Weapon by Carson Steil 🔫 Skin by me >:3 🦙

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@_mlktea

6 years

My dog likes to sit in the passenger seat so I have to click the seatbelt so my car doesn't beep at me. And sometimes he buckles himself in, but a picture looks staged af. I FINALLY got him on camera doing it

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@_mlktea

4 years

Just watching my company BODY this dunce

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@_mlktea

4 years

@ugobananas Don't threaten me with a good time

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@_mlktea

5 years

I'm the bad guy duh. - @billieeilish based off of @ElsaSketch 's drawings of her (next tweet)

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@_mlktea

4 years

bro this sucks

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6 years

HOLY SHIT. HOLY SHIT. I HAD NO IDEA. THATS MY ART ON A GIANT BOARD AT BLIZZCON. WTF WTF. I'm hurrying to make it to the opening ceremony and just YELLING "HOLY SHIT" when I run past it lmao

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@_mlktea

3 years

I just realized, it was almost 3 years exactly that I went from being a student making Overwatch fanart looking for studio work to being hired to work on Overwatch as a character artist 🥺😭😭 Younger Melissa would be so proud<33

melissa kelly 💙

@_mlktea

6 years

She's all done! Just in time for #CutieSaturday ⚠️ALSO I'm starting my hunt for full-time, in-studio work!⚠️ Wanting to relocate to either the LA or Seattle area. Please RT to spread the good word! Portfolio: e-mail: missmissa92 @gmail .com

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4 years

It’s pronounced “new-tell-uh” WHAT THE FUCK.

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