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I made an ice pattern mini collection for the P90 and MP9 for CS:GO! For some reason, I just really like painting ice. 😎

P90 Workshop Link

MP9 Workshop Link

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‪I made a couple of parrot buddies, and would like to share them with any and fellow bird connoisseurs! 💖🦜💖

My Creator ID Code: MA-1614-1745-5276‬

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Hi again! I made another set of custom paths for ACNH, with an ancient Greek theme this time. They’re more or less a border set, but I think you could use them in other combinations and with other ground bases for a variety of looks. I hope you like them, and please do feel free to share pictures if you end up using them! Also, if you’d like to come visit my island to see how I combined my tile sets or just want to say hi just send me a PM and I’d be happy to open my gate! 💖

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Hey guys, I have returned to Tumblr as I have something relevant to share with you! I made a modular set of Mexican ceramic tiles for Animal Crossing. It comes with several red squares, teal squares, porcelain blue, and modern black and white. There are also trim pieces for each, and two types of corners (for finishing off squares as well as turning corners for streets) which can be used interchangeably with any of the colors for a custom look.  You can use just one tile, just a few different squares with no trim, trim only, or go for the whole set-up if you're feeling fancy. I designed them to be versatile so that you can pick and choose what works for you (and your 50 allowed slots, lol). I included a whole bunch of photos to demonstrate how they can be put together and to show some ideas.  If you use them, I'd absolutely love to see what you do with them, as this is the closest I've got to true community game art modding in years and I absolutely love it. I've finished some additional path art as well as a couple one-off things, which I plan to post next! I'm already almost out of space on my design app, but as I publish things I can make more room to create new stuff.  Suggestions are always welcome, though hard guarantees are a little harder. :p My Creator ID Code: MA-1614-1745-5276

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Well, it’s been a minute or two since I’ve fired up the ole tumblr account, but I wanted to share this fancy fellow that we have just submitted for the 2018 Frostivus Call to Arms!

For this year’s Dota 2 Frostivus event, @chemicalalia and I have reworked our Serac the Seal courier with a new design and more polish everywhere!

Yes, he still SLAPS.

Please vote for him on the Steam Workshop here! Any vote helps! 🙏

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1574568481

(also, you can watch the showcase video until the end for a surprise.)

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It was just as fun to make as the other one!

This year, The International has an aquatic theme and a brand new reef terrain. Given that the Furryfish courier that @chemicalalia and I made in 2015 was overshadowed by being released in the middle of TI5 in a regular chest, we thought we’d give it a sibling, this time inspired by angelfishes!

Please support this fluffy courier by voting for it on the Steam Workshop here:

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=926207636

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Yay, it’s finally done!

Here’s Zephyr, a Queen of Pain set I helped @chemicalalia​ with!

Please support us by voting for this set on Dota 2′s Steam Workshop:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=921371026

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I’ve been creating skins for CS:GO since all the way back to 2013 and have had absolutely zero success with this Workshop. Dota 2 had always been my primary focus, but now that I’m back to being a solo artist and currently self-employed, it seems like a great opportunity (and possibly my last) to spend a month or two focusing solely on creating content for CS:GO and see what I can do.

So here’s my latest collection of randomized and tiling Spraypaint skins, after Hokusai's Great Wave and Japanese wood block printing. I’ll be submitting a handful more of these throughout the week, so check back a little later if you’d like to see them all!

Nami

Hope you like them, and, as an un-established artist in a pretty brutal Workshop, ratings are always appreciated!

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Here’s another collection of custom-painted FAMAS skins I did recently, inspired by the Pacific Northwest!

Cascadia

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I’ve been doing a lot of CS:GO Workshop stuff lately.  Here’s one of my latest collections, in the Gunsmith style!

Warbringer

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Got an early start on some skins for the Chinese New Year. Probably gonna try out a UMP-45 tonight too.  It’s been a while! 

Zhaoyu

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I never thought I'd see another Tinker set on the workshop, let alone create one.

Consequences of the Unforeseen

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The Dota workshop has me feeling pretty burnt out lately, so rather than jumping right back onto my Tinker set (which will probably never see the light of day anytime soon), I decided to block out some more TF2 stuff last night and today.  I got a new character started, the Soldier!  I only spent a few hours on her, the Spy and the Medic so far, but I got a solid start now and you can see where they’re heading.  I’d like to alternate between modeling out classes I haven’t done before and re-doing my old ones.

I’ve been hearing some talk lately on the subject of Overwatch and older characters (female ones in particular), and whether or not there’s a place for them in video games or if they’re just icky, and thought it seemed like a good opportunity to give it shot, myself.  I hope you like them! Everything here done in Zbrush and 3ds Max.

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While the rest of the world is all like “Overwatch”, I’ll just keep doing this like a boring old person.  I polished the Scout and Demoman models some more, and spent like a whopping 3 hours blocking in a new Spy.  Mostly to capture her face.   I'd like to sculpt out the whole team, the new ones as well as my old designs. 

Maybe I’ll whip out WIPs for their heads and bodies, so I can keep their facial features and silhouettes distinct from each other yet cohesive.  I haven’t had a lot of free time lately, but it’s so nice to work on stuff that doesn’t infuriate me... :p

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My submission to the Polycount CS-GO contest!  The theme is 70′s and 80′s scifi, and it was a lot of fun and a ton of work, since I got off to a several-week late start. 

If you like them, be sure to check them out on the Workshop!

Fun Fact #1: My mom came up with both my first and middle names (Shaylyn Alia) after reading sci-fi books (The Mirror and the Dune series). Fun Fact #2: Alia in Dune was known as “The Abomination” v:

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I have decided on radioactive purple!

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A rough sketch for a set I’m planning on making on my own.  I’ve wanted to do an alien tech-themed biomechanical Tinker set for ages, and he’s finally able to have cosmetics made on the Workshop!  I know it’s a bit out there for Dota, but Tinker is the most high-tech hero in the game, the most sci-fi,  and a walking Half-Life reference, so I’m just gonna go for it! :D

That said, this will probably be the last set I make for Dota for a while.  I absolutely love making Dota cosmetics, but it’s become too unreliable for me over the past year since the Majors stuff began, and I should probably start focusing on other means of income.  At the very least, dialing the Dota Workshop wayyy down to hobby-status.  It makes me sad, but I’m just getting too old for this kind of stress. v: