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@dhabiheng

10 months

Does 20 year old art count?

🖌️ Thumbnail artist🖌️

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10 months

ARTISTS you can only use one Art picture to convince people to follow you. Which art piece you using? OK GO UWU

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@dhabiheng

1 year

When Jack Black turns into the character you designed 👀

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TF2 LIVES FOREVER !

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9 months

Advertise your account with one image.

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Advertise your account with one image.

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@dhabiheng

6 months

After 25 years so glad to finally be able to play as Ivan

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@dhabiheng

2 months

New graybox just dropped.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

This one holds a special place for me. I remember being super proud of it when I finished. Unlike most of the other things I do that I loathe.

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4 years

hot take: this is the most iconic piece of half-life promo art in existence

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@dhabiheng

1 year

Quote tweet with 4 projects you’ve worked on.

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1 year

Quote tweet with 4 projects you’ve worked on. Wow I’ve been so lucky it’s crazy

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@dhabiheng

3 years

the Sketch the Final

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@dhabiheng

2 years

Found! Original Half-life 2 Combine Elite...as you can tell from the 31337 on hit shoulder. Which, in my defense, was HILARIOUS back in 2001.

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@dhabiheng

10 months

I guess I picked the right one! 😂

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@dhabiheng

3 months

A side effect of working at Valve is the constant and steady flow (every week or 2) of email inquiries from valve manufacturers in China asking if I would be interested in ordering any specialty factory valves, valve actuators, and a whole assortment of valve related products😂

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@dhabiheng

4 years

From the archives, first stab at HL2 promo art that we felt wasn't the right mood for Alyx. Used this somber tone for the Gordon street pic instead and gave her more power in the Alyx/Gordon shot. She seemed too chic here too, hence the duct tape/hoodie added to the final.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

HE'S BACK!!! #TheOneTrueKing #Dota2 #BattlePass #TI10

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@dhabiheng

3 years

This has been cooking for a couple years now and I'm super excited for everyone to finally see this! An exciting take on the Dota world from @ashmasterzero and the world class animation of #StudioMir Let's Go!

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@dhabiheng

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@Ziimbiian_

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@dhabiheng

3 years

Eat like Marci. #DOTADragonsBlood

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@dhabiheng

2 years

I dunno, I think the art is pretty much finished early on in the development process too. #Dota2 #Lion

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@dhabiheng

4 years

There was a desire to give her an iconic weapon like Gordon's crowbar, and so the socket wrench was aimed towards that. We never followed through on making it a thing for her in the game though, so it was born and died here in this image.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

In the spirit of Half-Life: Alyx, dug up something I did a few years ago for a friend's brother who worked at @cyborgturkey (Robot Chicken), who was a big HL2 fan.

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@dhabiheng

5 years

I am not on the HL:A team, and so I avoided the trailer until it was released. Bravo! Cuz y'all got me fan boyin' #HalfLifeAlyx

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@dhabiheng

11 months

For the 10th anniversary of the Dota 2 release, a look at the proof of concept trailer that was thrown together. #dota2 1/3

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@dhabiheng

4 years

Playing around with voxels and they reminded me of the game that started it all for me. Who played this? King's Quest 3 is when I fell in love with games. My tribute to what started it all for me. #retrogaming #voxelart #pixelart #magicavoxel #nostalgia

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@dhabiheng

4 years

@JackathanOne @Iiboharz @matttwood Thanks, but i got this open. It's missing the texture but you can get an idea of what I had to work with.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

Love seeing the valve in the head and Alyx's gravity gloves in the #DeathStranding PC announcement. (Gordon's glasses too!)

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@dhabiheng

5 years

Btw...this is happening

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@valvesoftware

5 years

We’re excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our flagship VR game, this Thursday at 10am Pacific Time. Can’t wait to share it with all of you!

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@dhabiheng

2 years

@beat_crazey I looked through a bunch of old folders it, but couldn't find anything higher than that. I did come across this one though. Was for a mag cover.

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@dhabiheng

6 months

@Komegatze I actually had no involvement in HL:Alyx. It was in very good hands and I purposely avoided seeing much because I wanted to play an HL game as a customer for once 😂 WORTH!

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@dhabiheng

4 years

My only disappointment in HL:A was when i picked up a cigarette butt in one hand and a lighter in the other and wasn't able to make the two work together. BUT NOW.... (don't smoke in RL it's bad for you, in VR only your VR lungs get killed)

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@valvesoftware

4 years

Expand the world of Half-Life: Alyx. Find new community creations in the Steam Workshop, or make your own using the newly released development tools.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

Second attempt at #animation . This took waaaaaay longer than I thought it would. Hats off to real animators who have the patience for this. @FlipaClip

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@dhabiheng

2 years

Let’s introduce these gems to a whole new generation.

Nintendo of America

@NintendoAmerica

2 years

Now you’re thinking with Portals, and playing portably! The classic first-person puzzle games Portal and Portal 2 by @valvesoftware are available now on #NintendoSwitch in the Portal: Companion Collection! 🔵🟠:

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@dhabiheng

3 years

It's too bad I have to even say this...wasting precious characters. I could instead be telling you my opinions are my own.

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@dhabiheng

2 years

This looks like a PhysX demo from 2008

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@gunsnrosesgirl3

2 years

the vortex of a dust devil originates from a whirlwind on the ground Powered by heat from the ground and made visible by debris particles which become electrically charged through friction (triboelectrification) These electrical fields strength it -1/🧵

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@dhabiheng

10 months

W for gamers I reckon 😎

PC Gamer

@pcgamer

10 months

Another huge W for Gabe: Blizzard is going to start releasing games on Steam.

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@dhabiheng

10 months

@zzzlzlzlzlzlz I did 😊 Started with a photo on that one.

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@dhabiheng

5 years

1/ Today marks 20 yrs working @ Valve. I never thought I would work anywhere that long, let alone my first real job. They took a chance on a no experience kid out of college with no resume and a portfolio thrown in a folder on a server somewhere. It changed the course of my life.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

For the curious, I was able to open up the old reference file for the HL2 Barnacle image. The 3D head was pasted in separately.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

@JackathanOne @Iiboharz @matttwood Thanks, but i got this open. It's missing the texture but you can get an idea of what I had to work with.

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@dhabiheng

2 years

Lotta good stuff!

Steam Deck

@OnDeck

2 years

Good morning! It's been around a month since Steam Deck launched, and we've been listening to feedback and pushing updates at a steady clip. Here's a quick look at everything that's been added and improved to Steam Deck since launch!

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@dhabiheng

2 years

I’ll take “Things I made that I didn’t expect to become a thing” for 200 Alex.

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@TopHATTwaffle

2 years

Don't talk to me or my son ever again.

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@dhabiheng

11 months

3/3 Ultimately, we didn't use this to announce the release for other reasons but it's a good example of how something goes from idea to completion and the flexibility to create at a place like Valve. Here is the final result:

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@dhabiheng

1 year

It may not be the absolute worst, but it did have the distinction a few years ago of making EGM's own "Worst Game Covers Ever" list!

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1 year

Anti portfolio day where you show case your absolute worst, most embarassing work

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3 years

Quote RT with 4 projects you worked on.

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@dhabiheng

1 year

My path to games: ➡️ "Piroshky Piroshky" Bakery ➡️ Artist at Valve No clearer example of "right place, right time" and I know how lucky I am. Had I applied a couple years later it's pretty unlikely I would have gotten the job.

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@HillfortGames

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My path to games: ➡️Barman ➡️Barman ➡️Barman ➡️Waiter ➡️Waiter ➡️University ➡️Kitchen Staff ➡️Wait Staff Trainer ➡️English Teacher In Japan ❔ (Wait… what?!) ➡️Randomly Featured On Kotaku ➡️Ubisoft Osaka Junior ➡️Freelancer ➡️Ubisoft Montreal Senior ➡️Creative Dir. JBS.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

This is superb!

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@ValveTime

4 years

Here's the source for that high-res Gordon Freeman model .

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@dhabiheng

10 months

@capetra_3 It is 😆

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@dhabiheng

10 months

'Chicago Orthographic' Experimenting with importing Google Earth map data into Blender #b3d We need a city builder game that looks like this! 🏙

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@dhabiheng

2 years

Mine looks a little bland.

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@dhabiheng

2 years

Happy Year of the Tiger🐯!!! Reposting a sculpt I did for the Dota 2 New Bloom event (was the Year of the Horse🐴) #LunarNewYear

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@dhabiheng

4 years

In the words of Gordon Freeman: “!!!!!!!”

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@valvesoftware

4 years

Half-Life: Alyx. Now Available.

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@dhabiheng

8 months

The first photo would be so much cooler IF I WASNT HALF BLINKING

Liz Edwards 💙💛

@lizaledwards

8 months

show me you at the start of your game dev career Vs you now (Aka hotter, more confident, super cool)

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@dhabiheng

10 months

@TheDanidem @zzzlzlzlzlzlz yes 😀

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@dhabiheng

5 years

Been working on this, excited to get this out!

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@Steam

5 years

The new Steam Library Beta is coming September 17th!

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@dhabiheng

10 months

Love seeing this on Steam!

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@Steam

10 months

Overwatch 2 is coming to Steam on August 10th with its biggest content drop ever!

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@dhabiheng

1 year

@matttwood this guy? lol. I wish I had a pic of the 3d model, it looked a lot more "clay"

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@dhabiheng

3 years

March 25th on @netflix #DOTADragonsBlood

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@dhabiheng

4 years

What’s 1+1? NO, IT’S WINDOW!!! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

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@dhabiheng

4 years

1/ I was about to write how super proud I was of what the HL:Alyx team did on this game. But I feel like "proud" relays some sort of ownership over what happened. I had absolutely nothing to do with this game, I played it as a customer would, and it blew me away.

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@dhabiheng

2 years

"Valve is always hiring and we’re on the lookout for talented level designers who want to help us build more of this type of thing."

Dean Tate

@IamDeanTate

2 years

Hey #blocktober - here’s some stuff I worked on from the “Jeff” chapter in Half Life: Alyx. Beware: SPOILERS ahead. First up, some screenshots of the area where we train the player on how Jeff works. I referred to this area as the “training trench” throughout development.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

On a bit of a #nostalgia kick. Next up, these little guys had the most expressive animations in just a small 16x16 frame. I sunk hours into Lemmings. #retrogaming #voxelart #pixelart #magicavoxel

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@dhabiheng

4 years

So....Pretty much Dota 3.

DOTA 2

@DOTA2

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The Outlanders Update

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@dhabiheng

2 years

Pulled a hires frame from the teaser and made a Marci poster for a friends daughter

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@dhabiheng

4 years

New year’s resolution No.127: Learn to Animate. Since for some reason most IRL friends think i animate, I thought maybe I should try it. #myfirstanimation #2020resolution @FlipaClip

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@dhabiheng

4 years

Sometimes people wonder why its like I disappeared. This sums it up.

Olly Moss

@ollymoss

4 years

@Justinoaksford Just realising that I did 0 personal work this year. One of the nice things about working at Valve is the line between personal work and work work is very blurred. The itch is usually scratched pretty quickly.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

HEY PEOPLE! THIS!

Valve

@valvesoftware

4 years

Half-Life: Alyx, available March 23, 2020

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@dhabiheng

2 years

@SlappyCromwell These are Overwatch Soldier conversion mechanisms. Idea being that once proven in Civil Protection as a Metrocop you get to graduate to be a Combine soldier which involves memory replacement, among other mods. All things that make them less and less human the higher the rank. (λ)

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@dhabiheng

2 years

If Valve didn’t exist, the only place I’d consider.

Playdead

@Playdead

2 years

15 years ago today, game designer Arnt Jensen founded Playdead! LIMBO and INSIDE each took six years. Our current project, GAME 3, is even more ambitious. If you're a game maker, appreciate our work and want to live in wonderful Copenhagen, get in touch!

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@dhabiheng

5 years

@joewintergreen Haha cool you noticed this! Some Easter eggs are too hard to find, no one ever found the gman face I put in Eli’s lab. @mattwood

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@dhabiheng

10 months

@SamZaNemesis @epicplayer40 Yep! Blast from the last, nice to see!

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@dhabiheng

3 years

you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about

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@dhabiheng

5 years

When you set out to establish a pattern people will pick up on, but it will take at least 6-7 years before people would be able to recognize it. #TI9 #dota2

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@betwaydota2

5 years

❓ Did you know why #TI9 is purple-themed? The colours of each year's International is based on the original five in-game runes, in a rotating order!

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@dhabiheng

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@kllrfish289 It would have been better if it was him 😂

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@dhabiheng

4 years

2/ It is amazing from start to finish, and it finishes with one of the most satisfying game endings I've ever experienced. The HL:Alyx team didn't just raise the bar for what a VR game could be, they raised the bar for what digital entertainment could be. Again.

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@dhabiheng

3 years

Portal 2 was the first game I deliberately shirked my "everyone should playtest this to make sure we catch all bugs" responsibilities. I wanted to play it fresh. Worth it! It was amazing.

The Game Awards

@thegameawards

3 years

🎂 It's your cake day PORTAL 2. 🎂 Happy 10th Anniversary, released on April 18, 2011!

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@dhabiheng

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@joewintergreen @matttwood @mattwood Noclip into the opening the vortigaunt is extracting that thingy from, the yellow inside backing of that looks like solid yellow, but if you screenshot it and the increase the contrast in photoshop a face should appear. If you have no luck I’ll try tonight.

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@dhabiheng

5 years

Rise and shine Ms. Vance, rise and shine. Coming March 2020! 🤩🤯

Valve

@valvesoftware

5 years

We're thrilled to announce Half-Life: Alyx, a new full-length entry in the Half-Life series, built by Valve for VR. Return to Half-Life in March 2020. Pre-purchase now on Steam.

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@dhabiheng

3 years

4 MORE HOURS #DOTADragonsBlood

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@dhabiheng

1 year

fyi it's pronounced: ZA-bee it's not pronounced:

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@dhabiheng

1 year

@matttwood * quickly looks for any of the concept art that might still exist from claymation TF2 *

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@dhabiheng

4 years

@Iiboharz @matttwood no 3D render under that. Although it’d be a stretch to say it was COMPLETELY hand drawn. I used a lot of photo sourcing for the water splashes and some metal textures to overlay on different parts of the suit and background.

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@dhabiheng

5 years

Finally started playing around with the Unity engine recently. I’m floored at how easy they make it. Brb gonna go make a game.

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@dhabiheng

4 years

Also from a few years ago. #RedArt (I cheated and made it more red, but don't tell anyone.)

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@dhabiheng

7 months

got out of bed every morning

ya momma hoe ‼️

@RickRossPizza

7 months

please brag about something you did in 2023 .

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@dhabiheng

4 years

Glass donut & bread cup! #blenderdonut

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@dhabiheng

11 months

2/3 We had wanted to announce the wide release with a trailer and after seeing a branding piece by the talented Ben Huen, I did some quick screen captures from the HL model viewer and comped it in After Effects over the audio track of the James Bond: Skyfall teaser.

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@dhabiheng

2 years

@matttwood Ambient lighting is key

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@dhabiheng

1 year

@metrocopnet it's comms! and Resistance stole em to use themselves

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@dhabiheng

4 years

@beat_crazey A lot of different photo source pasted together. Mostly from white water rafting photos 😉

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@dhabiheng

3 years

I’m really proud of all the hard work that led up to this moment. 🙃

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@dhabiheng

2 years

I love how the the brain suddenly registers how high this plane is as soon as the sky writing starts. Until then there is no reference point.

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@dhabiheng

2 years

Narrator: This isn’t CGI.

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@boomborks

2 years

This CGI is insane...

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@beat_crazey The goal was to bring in a new theme that was very different from the established themes we shipped with, so the mountainous and snowy set accomplished those goals. We pulled from the Cascades of Valve's home state of Washington which is pretty much the same as what you see in BC

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@dhabiheng

4 years

For the uninitiated. Look at this 16 color beauty!

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@dhabiheng

2 years

A few hours ago someone @‘d me attaching a Half-life 2 concept drawing I did years ago and haven’t seen since. Before I had a chance to save the image or reply they deleted it and now it’s gone forever…. Please send again!!!

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@dhabiheng

4 years

Have come across a lot of people who didn't know about a couple really useful things when using #photoshop . 1.) You can hold down SPACE when drawing lines or marquees to adjust the starting position

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@Iiboharz @matttwood For the record, I was looking for the old files and I found them. Can't open them anymore (old xsi .scn file) but saw one called barnacle_cover. So im less convinced there wasn't a scene I painted over. So im changing my answer to "yes". (so long ago!)

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@dhabiheng

4 years

In 1992, 13yo me didn't know what i needed to do to make a game. So I just made mockup after mockup. Found a box of old floppies with the images. This game was a point/click adventure after I saw a screenshot of Willy Beamish at the back of PCMagazine (still haven't played WB)

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@dhabiheng

3 years

People! LOOK! One of the many things about this show that stands out is the amazing score from @DM_LA . You get a taste of that here in this teaser.

DOTA 2

@DOTA2

3 years

NEW DOTA: Dragon's Blood Teaser Trailer! Premiering March 25th on @netflix , this exciting take on the Dota universe from @ashmasterzero (Thor / X-Men: First Class) is brought to life masterfully by @StudioMir2010 (Voltron / The Legend of Korra)

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@kllrfish289 Actually I remember him helping me make the Heavy's arm look right, I had a hard time with the lighting.

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@dhabiheng

1 year

...who am I kidding it IS the absolute worst.

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@dhabiheng

2 years

Slowly getting back into art again... anything I do now looks the way it did back in 2010 though and I've identified the culprit as brushes. (Let's pretend it has nothing to do with my own skill) Anyone have any favorite PS brushes or resources for brushes?

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@dhabiheng

3 years

Ok I’ll go.. ....uhm. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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