Zen

@beak

Game dev • 3D artist • fucking tired Posts 18+ sometimes Overwhelmingly powerful gay bird who knows how to use a computer. He • They • ΘΔ

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Zen@beak· Jun 6

Really excited for some of these announcements, been hoping Square would do this for a long time.

Zen@beak· Jun 2

He is entirely hand-painted, I've spent the last few months pushing myself to get better and I'm really feeling it lately.

Zen@beak· May 27

Comfortably on pace for tomorrows Patreon project update, this month I'm doing a bunch of non-environment art work, animation and art direction shit- and of course client work.

A blurred pureRef screenshot detailing two large reference collections, one labeled "Player Moodboard: Magical immortal tech creature filled with anxiety, fear and limitless power." and the other labeled "General Critter/Creature Moodboard: High fantasy scifi THINGS, skittering metals, living stone and undefinable shapes with 9-5 jobs"

Zen@beak· May 15

Zen@beak· May 1

Redid the exterior of my WoW house, then basked in the moonlight and wrote another alts very gay TRP profile.

My Dracthyr's home, framed by lush, somewhat muted foliage. A mailbox in the foreground has a lovely Dracthyr creche crystal hovering above it, and another sits at a fork in the path up ahead between the building entrance and a small garden/workshop area.

The same house from another angle, the moon is bright overhead and two raptor plushies play on a see-saw.

The workshop area with small natural stone steps leading to an anvil, where a hammer rests. There is a forge just behind it and a long table stretching past the camera. An overgrown trellis offers an alternate view of the front of the house, where the crystal marking the fork in the path is visible again.

Zen@beak· Apr 17

Fragments of my spirit, divided and hidden amongst the island residents.

A Tomodachi Life mii resembling my fursona sits at a table looking at a boxed copy of the 2002 "Most Wanted" game The Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind.

He is now holding the box up while text underneath him now reads "You've given him a boxed copy of Morrowind."

Tomodachi Life mii resembling Red XIII from Final Fantasy 7 holds aloft a plain isometric cube, below him is the text "You've given him a Blender default cube."

The Tomodachi Life painting interface, showing the boxed copy of Morrowind in more detail.

Zen@beak· Apr 7

Massive shoutout to this obscure 1988 Phantasy Star fansite that decided to hand-draw all the games item icons. www.pscave.com/ps1/items/

Zen@beak· Apr 3

I require all my characters to fit into this image

Zen@beak· Apr 1

To the Vulpera who ran up and held my hand near the pond in Silvermoon: I was very distracted and couldn't give that moment the attention it required!

Zen@beak· Mar 31

Thinking today about all the inspiration material that gets made in the course of a project, how much never makes it into the final game but helps us imagine it's world nonetheless.

Zen@beak· Mar 28

I mod my fursona into games all the time but I've only just noticed how little standalone art I've actually done of him! I'm a crow, with fun additions

My fursona modded into Majora's Mask, pointing a sword at something out of frame.

My fursona in Minecraft, he's wearing iron armor and has a big glowing halo floating behind him.

My fursona in Teardown, he's blocky and holding a big sledge hammer.

My fursona floating on his own, not actually in a game for once, looking menacing.

Zen@beak· Mar 28

March was a mess of bureaucracy and back-to-back weeks of mental recovery, we chase off the doubts and find a roundabout way to achieve the same end without the human cost. I also talk about the importance of having a relief project with no obligations. www.patreon.com/posts/rounda...

Zen@beak· Mar 25

That chill is /all I've ever wanted/

Zen@beak· Mar 24

Retreating to my little comfort project, spent the whole month learning new shit and my poor withered brain needs a break.

A lizard-like creature standing on a stone tile floor in some kind of snowy valley, there are unfinished and untextured environment assets behind him. He is holding a long blocky half white crystal-like sword.

Zen@beak· Mar 21

Zen@beak· Mar 20

These two weighed the same in my mind

The iconic Halo 3 poster with the official game tagline "Return the Slab" on it

The haunting scene from Courage the Cowardly dog where King Ramses comes to demand that Eustace Bagge "Finish the fight"

Zen@beak· Mar 16

Teardown multiplayer means I gotta put my boy in the game.

A voxel version of my fursona running through the snow holding a sledge hammer.

A voxel version of my fursona standing in a large room holding a revolver.

A voxel version of my fursona sneaking by a neon sign while holding a shotgun.

Zen@beak· Mar 12

That animation gets me EVERY TIME, I've been playing so slowly because I keep stopping to take screenshots of him looking adorable

Zen@beak· Mar 11

My actual score versus "wait I have a screen colour grabber, how low can I get this if I DID actually cheat?"

Zen@beak· Mar 9

Oughhh he looks so politeeee

Zen@beak· Mar 5

Holy fucking shit please can people be normal for one god damn minute

Zen@beak· Mar 2

I am becoming deeply invested in this shows incredibly creative creature design.

Zen@beak· Mar 2

Holy shit

Zen@beak· Mar 1

I am /so fucking stoked/

Zen@beak· Mar 1

More exhausted than ever before, but holy shit they're done. Minus the fingers and upper arms but hey I'm symmetrical!

A photo of my arms, covered in tattoo'd bird/dragon scales from my knuckles down to my elbow.

Another photo of my arms and their scales, just in a different pose. You can see my huge MLM flag in the background, some string lights and some dakis hung up on the wall but we're choosing to ignore those because look at my fresh ink!

Zen@beak· Feb 26

Progress and morale, February was good to me and our environment art efforts. I go in-depth about the process of learning environment art as a character artist and talk a bit of shop about what that even looks like this past month. www.patreon.com/posts/beginn...

Zen@beak· Feb 25

He brings me immense joy.

My fursona in Majora's Mask, arms out pushing himself upwards, a text box on screen reads: "Whe"

My fursona rummaging through a chest, his entire ass is hanging out and his feet are doing that gay little swinging motion. The cute purple paw pads on his feet are visible.

Zen@beak· Feb 24

Thanks @punchystream.bsky.social, couldn't get it out of my head all week.

A bsky post from @punchystream.bsky.social:
"Remember, you can lock onto your opponents by pressing the R1 button. Try locking onto this post now.

Ok. Well done. That's all I can teach you. I hear there are other posters that can teach you more advanced techniques out there, but you'll have to find them yourself. Good luck!"

Zen@beak· Feb 24