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Jake Benbow

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11 months

Been asked a few times about my texturing so I made a video explaining this histogram scan technique that is core to how I quickly lay down interesting shapes and strokes early on

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Jake Benbow

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2 months

These four painterly tiling textures were the backbone of my latest project so I thought why not share the love - they're now available to download for free if anyone fancies taking them for a spin. Use them however you like! Link to the Gumroad page down in the replies 👇

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Jake Benbow

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9 months

My greasy spoon cafe project is finally done! It's taken longer than anticipated, but exploring this hand painted style has been really fun and I've learned lots along the way. Artstation post linked below with some more renders and some breakdown bits too 👇

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Jake Benbow

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11 months

More progress, tables this time

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Jake Benbow

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9 months

Little steamy vfx pass for the coffee. Very outside of my wheelhouse, but it was very fun to dive into some different stuff and I think it came out pretty well!

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

24 hard surface studies, over the past couple of months. Just a drop in the ocean in terms of learning. #Blender3d #b3d

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Jake Benbow

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11 days

More Substance Designer goodness, a rock wall material study. Feeling good about the progress I'm making with these studies, and loving how quickly I'm able to rattle through them. It's nice to not have a project take months to complete! Artstation post in the replies👇

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Jake Benbow

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1 month

Just wrapped up another material study in Substance Designer - a bamboo wall this time. Getting more comfortable in the program, feels less and less like I'm floundering. Who knew consistent practice would turn out to be so useful? Artstation link in the replies 👇

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Jake Benbow

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10 months

Little sparky box for the cafe. Far too detailed considering it's shoved up in a corner, but hey that's what personal work is for right. Base colour appreciation image too, very fun to paint this

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Jake Benbow

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2 months

My latest project, the Club Backrooms, is complete! Very happy with the results, thanks to everyone that's followed along with my progress and given me support on it, greatly appreciated. Artstation post down below with some more renders and some breakdowns too 👇

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Jake Benbow

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14 days

Merry #PortfolioDay everyone! I'm a Junior Environment Artist working in the games industry, based in the North West of England. I'm moving more into stylised art and love making things that feel sketchy, and have recently been neck-deep in procedural material studies 👇

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

Today's hardsurface study turned out pretty nice. Really focused on getting a more dynamic base shape established #Blender3d #b3d

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Jake Benbow

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15 days

Another material study wrapped up - concrete wall panels. I've been really enjoying Substance Designer in a way I haven't before, feel like I'm starting to understand things more with these studies. Artstation post in the replies for more renders and breakdowns 👇

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

2 years

today's hardsurface study in #Blender3d #b3d . Another nice one, if I do say so myself.

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Sat on this for a day and now I'm looking at them again, I'm happy to call these done. It was a long process with lots of experimentation and iteration, but when I look back on where it started from I'm really happy with where I've ended up. Now to make a small scene for them...

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Jake Benbow

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8 months

QRT with props Some oldies from the dead uni project 💀

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@PikminMan

8 months

QRT with props!! Time to crack open old fave I have for this.

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Jake Benbow

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11 months

How it started vs how it's going - RT with yours 👇

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

Today's hardsurface form study in #Blender3d #b3d . I like the boxy industrial look

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Jake Benbow

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1 month

It's cool to see how flexible this material is - these variations come from just swapping the initial tile generator, not changing any other values. Big believer in the procedural approach

Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 month

A new little portfolio piece - Dusty Flagstones material made in Substance Designer Going to try to spend more time in Designer to figure out ways to incorporate my own style into materials as I move more towards stylised art. Artstation link below 👇 share's appreciated!

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

today's hardsurface study in #Blender3d #b3d . Don't know why I keep gravitating towards these colours, I don't even like Halo

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Jake Benbow

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11 months

I love being able to shove the camera in weird places. This is resting on top of a ceiling fan

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

Starting to dial in this workflow of using tiling materials, mesh decals, and masks. Red for edges, green for dirt, and blue for some painterly colour variation. Got my trim sheet set up with decalmachine too which is making things breezy, it'll be my go to trim tool from now on

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Jake Benbow

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6 months

doodle in Plasticity

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Just got an email regarding an end of year portfolio showcase project from my uni, where they've created a category where you MUST use AI generated concept art as a base to work from...

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Jake Benbow

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9 months

A couple of my favourite assets that I painted for this scene, base colour renders

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

More Plasticity shenanigans, hard surface form study

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Jake Benbow

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7 months

Happy #PortfolioDay everybody. I'm Jake, a junior 3D artist in the games industry, and I dabble in props and environments during my spare time too

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Jake Benbow

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11 months

Old uni project from last year. I did some great work on this project, but I don't feel compelled to go back and finish it off. It's been months and my mind is moving forward, not backwards

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

Always a merry #PortfolioDay when you have new-ish stuff to show off. I'm an environment artist based in Nottingham, currently working on top secret stuff at Bithell Games. Some of these are WIP, and I'm revisiting my Dishonored inspired scene soon👀

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Had a small eureka moment about how to push this further. You can bake the decals from decalmachine to a normal map, then import this to Painter to use as a micro normal input. This way it contributes to the generators, giving you edge wear and dirt on decals too!

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

8 months

The breakdown for my last project is here! In this article I walk through the approach to my hand painted textures, breaking down the what and why of each layer. Thanks to Beyond Extent for reaching out and giving me the opportunity to share this insight with all you lovely folk

BeyondExtent

@BeyondExtent

8 months

Always wanted to create something that feels like it’s your own style? ⭐ Jake Benbow takes us through the process with his latest scene and dives into his inspirations, and how to combine them into your own creation!

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Jake Benbow

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5 months

For low detail surfaces and props, I'm just using tileable paint stroke masks. Vertex colour provides base colour and value, and then the mask adds the juice. These all use one material and one tiling texture, and then get some grunge from a procedural AO node.

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Been working on some little props to test out this painted base generator

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Fixed the render issues and did a quick lighting pass to see how the surfaces were playing. Re my last post about it being too stylized, I've started to approach it a bit more like a realistic prop - adding some more mid frequency roughness and height noise, think it works well

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

Blender hardsurface study #b3d #Blender3d

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

2 years

Today's hardsurface study in #Blender3d #b3d . Not sure about this one, think I started well and then got a bit lost

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

2 years

today's hardsurface study in #Blender3d #b3d

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

Other props are starting to come along too. Definitely a work in progress, need to bring the style more in line with bottles, make the shapes and the colours more graphic

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

2 years

yet another hardsurface study in #Blender3d #b3d . Less form on this one, more just the details in the front.

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

10 months

It's that time again, happy #PortfolioDay ! I'm Jake, a Junior 3D artist at Bithell Games. No new finished work to show since last time, but I'm nearing completion on this stylized greasy spoon scene!

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

Calling this a first pass at these bottles, going to move onto some other props and make a little diorama sort of thing out of these. As always, the scope creep is real

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

It's always cool when you make smart materials that just work when you slap them on a different prop

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

2 years

today's hardsurface study in #Blender3d #b3d . Shoutout to @HubertKrzykal who gave me some great feedback on my recent designs which I've tried to think more consciously about during this design

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

Checked out Plasticity for a couple of hours, quick model based on a recent design by @_8bitwizard . Coming from Blender I love the usability, the focus on hotkeys makes it feel much more intuitive and quick to model than something like Fusion. Really cool tool

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

Today's hardsurface study in #Blender3d #b3d

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Had some really insightful feedback over the past day or two which has helped me to steer things closer towards a style I'm happy with. There's been lots of information to digest and balance, but it's starting to feel like there's an end in sight

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Time to start getting some renders in before deadline

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Been working on this tiling wood material for my cafe scene. Building this on top of what I learned with the ketchup bottles has helped me to cement some rules for this style, and now I'm feeling more confident about creating the rest

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Jake Benbow

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5 months

Got a nice gradient on these lights thanks to the linear gradient node combined with some mirrored UVs. Because it's UV based, not a bespoke mask, I can use the UV editor in Unreal to control the values of the gradient, and can easily create duplicate meshes with different UVs

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Jake Benbow

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10 months

Spent a few days making some paintings and some flyers to clutter up the walls

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

another hardsurface design study in #Blender3d #b3d . Took two days for this one, ended up looking like some sort of coffee pot thing to me

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

haven't done one of these in a while. I wanna get back to hardsurface more regularly, I think it's what I enjoy the most. #b3d #Blender3d

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

bit of hard surface, inspired by @boltondynamics 's recent videos. Want to get into a habit of doing more design studies. I wanted to keep going but I remeshed it before detailing and it made Blender crumble, it was like stop motion. Won't make that mistake again #b3d #hardsurface

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

lunchtime Plasticity doodle, with a cheeky Blender render

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

it's always pretty neat to walk around and be able to play around with the stuff you've made

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

Got some nice cycles renders of my last design from Plasticity #b3d #Blender3d

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

Been working on these ceiling lights for a few days, really fun piece. Sort of iconic to me for the Dishonored setting so I wanted to do it justice. Next job is to turn them into actual lights, exploring some options whether I go down the emissive or subsurface route

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Jake Benbow

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11 months

Got these seats modelled and textured, particularly happy with how the painted metal frame came out. Also played around with lighting and colour grading, trying to lean into the stylisation in those aspects also

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

Just dropped an Artstation post for these props - been a fun project, excited to elaborate and create a full scene in this style. Special thanks to @RDurandArt , @LeeCurtG , and @GrizzlewoodArt for giving me great feedback along the way Artstation link below for more 👇

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

another #PortfolioDay , this time with some WIP to show from my current scene. I'm graduating in a couple of months, then I'll be on the hunt for my first permanent role as an environment artist in the games industry

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

18 days

If you see this post some of your materials! 👇

Tobias Koepp

@TOBLAR0NE

18 days

If you see this post some of your materials! ✨

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

2 years

What up #ArtistOnTwitter I make cool sci fi shapes

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

Confetti is a uni that has a dedicated games art course where they're charging students tens of thousands of pounds, promising to give them the skills to find a career as a concept artist within the games industry whilst undermining them in their own curriculum...

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 month

A new little portfolio piece - Dusty Flagstones material made in Substance Designer Going to try to spend more time in Designer to figure out ways to incorporate my own style into materials as I move more towards stylised art. Artstation link below 👇 share's appreciated!

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

dissertation stuff in Blender

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Made some clutter books over the last week or so, was nice to chip away at them slowly whilst on holiday. Initially wanted to make them very detailed and elaborate, but with how they're repeated across the scene it made sense to strip them back a bit

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

The ceiling lights came out pretty good in the renders

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

today's hardsurface form study in #Blender3d #b3d . this one was a welcome break today

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

We're getting somewhere

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Wrapped up this stone wall material, really fun project and definitely a process I'll be revisiting in the future. Check out the Artstation link below for more 👇

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Been playing with different approaches for the lights and landed on a subsurface material. Feel like it really sells the illusion of there being a bulb underneath the glass sphere, you get that nice falloff on the edges. Always fun finding new techniques

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Please, please, nobody consider going to Confetti to study anything related to games. The lecturers are completely out of touch with the industry and they aren't capable of readying you for it, they just want your money.

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Jake Benbow

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2 months

Renders are underway for the nightclub corridor and coming out very nice. I had a month or two away from this project and lost all momentum on it but I'm glad I returned to it, I think it's my best stuff so far.

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Jake Benbow

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11 months

Bit more progress on this scene, started applying a trim sheet to the blockout and got these ceramic wall tiles done. This felt like the first material I've made in Designer where I've solved problems and worked with intentionality without relying on tutorials, nice breakthrough

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Jake Benbow

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2 months

Been fighting Artstation for the past few hours trying to lay stuff out, what a frustrating platform. Have a spare render that didn't make the cut.

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

starting to get some renders of this radio. Having some difficulty getting the surface to read as nicely in Unreal as it does in Painter

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

2 years

hardsurface form study in #Blender3d #b3d . Had to re-upload this, missed an error in the other renders. Also, thanks to all the new followers over the past month or so, cool to see my work resonate with people.

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Jake Benbow

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9 months

Starting to get final renders

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

1 year

Wrapped up the screen, and I think this is about done. Need to get it over into engine and see how it's looking for renders, but the end is in sight. If anyone is up for giving me some feedback, please reach out🙏

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

There's lots of talented artists on those courses who've produced great concept art that people could work from, but rather than encourage students to collaborate and develop their communication skills they'd rather chase trends...

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Jake Benbow

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6 months

The people who claim developers' opinions don't matter are the same ones that call developers lazy, and they'll be the same ones moaning when in the midst of a tidal wave of AI slop that they brought upon themselves

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Turns out they're also already teaching the games art course to use AI for brainstorming ideas. Many of these are students wanting to become concept artists, and they're being taught to let an algorithm think for them. This is how they're preparing students for the industry

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

Just finished my final tweaks on this project, calling it a day. There was a lot of back and forth and little tweaks here and there, but I'm pretty chuffed with how it turned out over the course of a couple of weeks. I'd appreciate some Artstation love ✌️

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

quick plasticity doodle, looks like a snake

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Jake Benbow

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9 months

trying to make more mundane shit look pretty

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

The worst thing is those students won't even know they're being misled. Students put blind faith in what lecturers say because of perceived experience and status. Students trust that uni's know what they're on about, and they get taken for a ride because of it.

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Jake Benbow

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6 months

Another radio! Been fun to continue with the stylised texturing and bring it to something more techy and sci fi. Shout out to @BrianSumArt for the amazing concept from his book "AftrMrkt". More renders and all that jazz in the Artstation link below 👇

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Jake Benbow

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5 months

Made a little cable generator for the wall boxes in my corridor scene. It's a bit clunky and probably not entirely necessary for this project, but it's the first real thing I've made using geo nodes and it's been fun to solve this series of problems on my own.

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

I'm all for Sherwood Forest giving insects RPG stats

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

More uni assignment progress - got some nice hand painting done on the door, starting to get a feel for some of the brushes and techniques. Making decent progress, things are starting to come together

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Jake Benbow

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9 months

A week or so's worth or progress, left to right. Lots of little additions and reworking of old bits, makes the whole place feel a little more textural and lived in

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Jake Benbow

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9 months

Very chuffed to say that today was the final day of my contract at Bithell Games, because tomorrow I'll be back as a permanent member of the team! It's my first full time gig in the industry, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to carry on working with a great bunch of people!

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

more dissertation stuff, but Plasticity

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

Done modelling here. Decided I'm just going to bake the high poly onto itself cause I ran into issues with retopo from Plasticity and I want this to be a quick project. Wireframes and UVs are going to be dirty but I'm happy to chalk this one up as a texturing exercise.

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Jake Benbow

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1 year

They'll go into an interview in a couple of months time thinking that employers want to see how good their prompts are, and they won't know what hit them

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

10 months

Does anyone know of any good streamers that regularly do 3D art content? The art category on Twitch is just full of people drawing anime girls

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Jake Benbow

@jakebenbow

2 years

today's hardsurface form study in #Blender3d #b3d

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Jake Benbow

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1 month

shameless piggybacking throwback to this Dishonored inspired project I was working on last year as I neared the end of my uni days. This project had some good bones but I took a break and never got back to it...

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1 month

Doors of #Dishonored2 appreciation post. Look at these textures!

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Jake Benbow

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9 months

Coffee time ☕️

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Jake Benbow

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2 years

hot damn it's #PortfolioDay again. I'm Jake, a junior 3D artist in the games industry with a particular taste for all things hard surface and sci fi portfolio: email: jakebenbow @live .co.uk #3dart #gameart

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