@SamSantala

👤 Creature/Character Concept Artist 💼 Prev: Rare, Ubisoft, SixMoreVodka, Volta ✉️ [email protected] 🇪🇺 Carbon-based biped

 Helsinki, Finland
bio.site/samsantala
Joined August 2012
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Whilst not one of the Riot/Blizz folks, I was let go from my role as a concept artist as well this week and am now looking for work. I specialize mostly in stylized or creature work, but I'm very interested in more character-based and historical projects artstation.com/samsantala
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Sam Santala retweeted
Sam Santala@SamSantala11h
Streaming some game dev on #twitch (working on UI mostly I think!) twitch.tv/samsantala
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Streaming some game dev on #twitch (working on UI mostly I think!) twitch.tv/samsantala
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Really not sure what to do about making a demo for my game now. I was hoping I could show it off, get feedback, build a community around this game. But now, if people are just going around cloning games with AI and releasing everything before it's ready... what do you even do?
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I think the only way to really ensure your games safety is to have an invested audience, to have unique IP. As Al assets and art become more ubiquitous, as code gets stolen and duplicated, the only real obvious differentiator will be the strength of the art style and designs
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I try my best to play as many Next Fest demos each time there is one. But man... everything is full of AI assets. Makes it hard to think the game is gonna be good if it's full of stuff like that.
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Sam Santala retweeted
Sam Santala@SamSantalaSep 24
LIVE on #Twitch streaming again. Working on more characters :) twitch.tv/samsantala
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LIVE on #Twitch streaming again. Working on more characters :) twitch.tv/samsantala
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This has potential :D
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Wikipedia has been doing some really awesome social media posts. They've been hiring artists & animators to talk about random Wikipedia articles or explain how it works. They could have just hired influencers, or made text posts. But this feels much more grassroots. I love it
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Post got really big so using this chance to say I'm professional artist in games myself, if you want to see my own work and follow me on a site I actually like, my links are here: bio.site/samsantala

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Really successful stream yesterday :)
Sam Santala@SamSantalaSep 22
LIVE on #Twitch. Streaming some character design on again :) twitch.tv/samsantala
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LIVE on #Twitch. Streaming some character design on again :) twitch.tv/samsantala
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I love Godot. I spent ages following tutorials for node programming in Unreal, and whilst I got some basics I always felt like I wasn't capable of moving past tutorials Now I've been learning scripting in Godot and I'm already moving on to making my own unique systems, its great
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I really miss the UK at the moment. I feel like it's usually a deluge of depressing politics and racism. But the World Cup & the supporters, the multiculturalism, everything has been the most positive vision I've had of my home country in a long, long, long time.
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Racism of papers like The Daily Mail is utterly alien to me and my understanding of the UK I don't get it now, I didn't get it during the fury at the Olympic ceremony for having a story of a young black couple as part of the show We should celebrate successes like Bellingham
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If you want to understand just HOW racist the UK newspapers are - you don't need slanderous Meghan Markle articles. You just need to see what they said about Jude before this World Cup started
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British identity is more than skin colour, its values, its community and what we believe ourselves to be We are a multi-ethnic society, & whilst not perfect, integrated better than many other places in the world Progressive people like myself should be louder in supporting this
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The death of Sony as a console company will not come from a lack of physical discs (something that feels pretty inevitable anyway), but because they started selling their *exclusive* IP on PC Marketplaces, removing the entire function of their console for short-term profitability
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Andy Burnhams new battle bus
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The UK education system is super efficient. It spends hundreds of thousands of pounds per student training kids to enter the workforce, then at age 18 encourages them to take unpayable loans which can be increased unilaterally so talent never wants to stay in the UK. 10/10
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Ahhh, another white nationalist riot in the UK. People who believe their culture is superior to everyone elses and want to show that by... -checks notes- Burning down their communities. Masterful.
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