I met comic artist Michael Avon Oeming at Long Beach Comic Expo 2016. He worked on comics for Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Portal 2; all stellar works if you haven't read those yet. We chatted a bit about his time at Valve, including telling me about Gabe's knife collection, one of which was carved from the bone of a whale's penis. No, I didn't make that up.
Show & Tell.
Masque
Baby. Released in Dec 7th 2013. Made by me.
At the End. Crafted in collaboration with Joy Jordan, for the SFM Discord's contest (voting next week!). I did the concept, scenebuilding, and props. Joy did the post processing, placing some of the particles, lightning, and refining the concept.
Why I don't wear Max's Severed Head anymore. (released in May 2011) Inspired by my time being bombarded with trade requests and insults in TF2 servers; all for some hat I got from preordering Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse. btw the "Why are you wearing that hat if you didn't want to trade it?" line was actually a real comment I received
The Sniper's Present
Here Comes a New Challenger. Collab between myself, Joy Jordan, and Lourny.
So, these dumb meme pics were made by turning off the lightning, disabling the phong (mat_phong 0), and using the AO's Outline. I took two photos, one with the phong and outline (phong needs to be on for the outline to work) and another without the outline and phong. Then I overlayed one photo on top of the other in Photopea and carefully erased the non-lining around the hat and character to achieve an outline effect. I used the clone stamp to erase the hat strap and any bright phong areas aroun…
Scary Creature Encounter Based on Juno's voiceline from Overwatch 2 Season 13 Battle Pass (Tier 17), where she says "Scaredy cat? But cats are the scariest creatures of all!"