Ben Carnow
@carniferus
Senior and sometimes Lead Character Artist at Bethesda Game Studios. 99% personal sketch/garbage art here. All opinions my own AI and NFTs go right in the trash
Upgraded to a Pruse Core One + and am enjoying the ability to print hilariously large vs my old resin printer. I need to start designing things that are not covered in tiny spikes pointing at every angle. 3d printers hate that one trick.
Found a rare naturally occurring IUD. So much better than those factory farmed IUDs full of chemicals.
I hadn’t forgotten this one, but it is prob the other piece. I never watched He-man as a kid so I had no idea who this was, but my brother got this action figure in a trade. For some reason I decided that this was “God.” My God has a flail arm.
Y’all ever see a beloved but completely forgotten childhood toy and then it decodes the secret of your whole aesthetic as if you’d glimpsed the Rosetta Stone?
We literally just now had a huge tree fall across our driveway and street. Dane saw a post I made and was on the phone with us immediately rounding up a chainsaw crew to come take care of it. That is the kind of man he is and what he brings to every team he has ever been on. Laid off by MS.
Here’s a really fun one! The iconic armor worn by the Dragonborn in all the Skyrim key art was made by Lead Character Artist Christiane Meister. The Steel Sword (and a majority of weapons in Skyrim) were made by Senior/Lead Weapon Artist Dane Olds. Both were just laid off by Microsoft.
Fun fact! When you start a new game of Skyrim literally the first thing you see is art concepted by laid off concept artist Ray Lederer. (I made the in game art.) A slap in the face to every Elder Scrolls fan.
Every timelapse reveals a hilarious lack of a plan. Also I think I like some of the early weird faces more than where I ended up.
A glorious oligarch sheds fail-sons without hesitation while fleeing consequence in the void.
A little more refinement and some ultra rough colors. Prob call this creep done. I unintentionally ended up with an id, ego, superego stack for the three center-most faces and I think that’s neat.
