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Artist at Valve Software. Former architect and urban planner. Apprentice bladesmith by the ABS. Amateur motorcycle racer at CVMA number 554.

Seattle / Paris / Sao Paulo
Joined June 2009
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Wraith King Bronze Casting process. ( Starting over to make this into a thread ) First I 3d printed the pieces I wanted, I decided to go only for the head, helmet and crown #dota2 #bronzecasting
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This printer from Stratasys prints in two materials, the white one is more brittle and can be removed, but I learned my lesson to avoid using my hands. Because there is some force involved, when it breaks on a sharp corner, it can cut and cuts deep. #dota2 #bronzecasting
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Wraith King's bronze casting project. This is a long going project with many mistakes and learnings, so hang with me :) It all started with deciding the scale and 3d printing the pieces I wanted. #dota2 #bronzecasting
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The leftover can be cleaned on an ultrasonic lye bath. I tried later with lye at home without the heat and ultrasonic, and it takes forever to melt #dota2 #bronzecasting
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Since sharing all the incredible TI photos on our social media is impossible, here is the flicker folder with everything!! ow.ly/svSa50LuVr9 #ti11 *I did not work at the event this year. I am just sharing some of the fantastic photos from our team :)
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Exploring Singapore
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playing WK offlane as the "calm guy" 😅 #dota2
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If you are at #PaxWest and want to know more about Valve and possibly apply for a job, just stop the guy on a kneeling scotter. ( You might have to chase him ) Gotta be always ready for some recruiting 😉
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When you take more damage than the entire team 😅 Offlane Axe FTW #dota2
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This is the play button fire FX I got some old fire footage from the L4D times, exported it as a image sequence, and worked on some photoshop batch actions to make it look more like brush strokes. Some smoke on the back, embers in front and done :) #dota2
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Since I was adding fire everywhere, why not on the play button? #dota2
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This is one of the projects I got myself into for this Battlepass: Making the Aegis burn! I love everything around the Aegis, it is such an emblematic and powerful entity, I am very proud to set it on fire for this year :)
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3d print of the Wraith King I modeled for Dota2. I plan to make some sort of volumetric framed picture for my place and for now I am trying to cover the print layers with primer 😅 #dota2 #wraithking #3dprint #zbrush instagram.com/reel/CgxZvwcFY…
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hey @Official_GDC, is there any problem with the virtual version today? I am missing a few talks that I really wanted to see Cheers!
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Nimbus too :) – at Seattle, WA
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Sky always joining my dota matches – at Seattle, WA
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After a lose streak, something positive :)
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Just leaving this here ;)
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