Indie dev building something new 🦊 Exploring AI + game development Sharing the journey

Joined May 2025
Here’s a bit of my hand-painting process in Blender. I’m not an expert, so any advice is very welcome!!! I usually start from black and paint while thinking about where the light comes from #GameDev #3D #Blender #IndieDev #Texturing #speedpaint
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Had a creative block, that’s why I haven’t posted. Thought I had nothing worth sharing… not true Been exploring the game idea and making rough sketches. Ugly, but very valuable for me and the process #GameDev #IndieDev #AIArt #3D #thinking
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I usually go from general to detail, but this time I tried a different approach. I started with the details and will blend them into broader changes later. Wish me luck šŸ˜… #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Blender
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Not a big update today. I’ve been exploring ways to improve the textures and see if they fit my art style. Starting to wonder if I really know my direction… or if I should go back to planning #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Texturing #Blender
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Found something interesting šŸ‘€ #PicoBerry meshes had more vertices but fewer faces than #Meshy Turns out it splits the mesh into parts (not perfect cuts), that’s why Pretty useful for game dev PD: UVs are chaos :3 #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Unity
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#PicoBerry is by far the most accurate so far (based on the references). Great textures, solid mesh. I’ll check the UVs next, but I like that some parts come already separated. Very nice work @UModeler šŸ‘ #Unity3D #Unity #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev
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Tried #PicoBerry today šŸ‘€ For a beta tool and my first low poly attempt, this is pretty impressive. Topology is better than most tools I’ve tried #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #LowPoly
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Fixing the textures now. UVs aren’t great except for baking, but for simple hand-painted work, it should be fine #GameDev #AIArt #3D #Blender #IndieDev
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I’m continuing with the retopology of a character generated with #Meshy. At this point, I’m not even sure if I’m saving time with AI… or just spending it fixing things šŸ˜… Maybe I just need to improve my workflow somehow #GameDev #AIArt #3D #Blender #IndieDev #Retopology
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There are still some topology issues, like you can see here… Looks like I’ve got a lot of work ahead šŸ˜… #GameDev #AIArt #3D #Blender #IndieDev #Topology
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#Meshy also has an animation system… not great, to be honest. I’d still prefer doing animations by hand, but it might be useful for references. I’ll test it later once I fix the weights so I can compare results #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Animation
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Still experimenting with my workflow. Tried #Meshy for retopo… not great. Then tested #Hi3D, is better, but still not quite there. Re-applied textures with #Meshy and now jumping into Blender for manual fixes. Wish me luck šŸ˜… #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Retopology
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I think topology is one of the biggest challenges here. The mesh can look good at first, but the topology is usually a mess… even after remeshing Any suggestions? I’ll keep experimenting šŸ¤” #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Meshy
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Been playing with AI for 3D… some generations are straight up garbage, others are surprisingly decent šŸ˜… You really have to iterate to get something that matches what you have in mind. Not gonna lie, this is fun #GameDev #AIArt #IndieDev #3D
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I ended up fixing it in Photoshop Honestly, I could’ve done that way earlier and saved a lot of time, but I wanted to push AI and see its limits. Turns out you still need technical skills or you get stuck pretty fast. interesting šŸ‘€ #GameDev #AIArt #IndieDev #3D #GenerativeAI
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Still iterating on my AI game dev workflow. I'm building characters piece by piece (body, clothes, head...), but running into a scaling issue, even when I specify proportions, it just ignores them. Kinda frustrating tbh šŸ˜… #GameDev #AIArt #IndieDev #3D #GamedevWorkflow
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I drew this character a while ago, so I tried to recreate it using the same visual style 🦊 It’s not as simple as drag & drop, I had to rebuild each piece one by one and use them as references for the final version Pretty fun process to be honest😊 #gamedev #indiedev #AI
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I'vee been working in the game industry for 6 years now, and on indie projects for almost 15 years (omg I'm getting old) Now I want to try something new with AI development, and explore its limitations on a solo project I'll keep posting updates 😊 #gamedev #indiedev #AI #AIdev
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