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Valerie Di Matteo

@chozodia

Environment Artist @ Gunfire Games Europe | #Metroid & #FFXIV Fan | Photographer & Composer Enthusiast. https://www.artstation.com/vdimatteo

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Hellloooooo #portfolioday I'm a 3D Environment Artist who loves working in stylized ways! Most recently shipped Wildgate with Moonshot, and was previously a Lead on Overwatch 2

www.artstation.com/lucasannunzi...

13.01.2026 20:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 107 ๐Ÿ” 31 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

they look soooo great holy cow. Wish it wouldn't cost over 60 bucks because of those lame taxes

19.12.2025 07:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kraid from 2021 #metroid #supermetroid #art #illustrstion #metroidart #samus

15.12.2025 14:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 74 ๐Ÿ” 33 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
allegedly, one of those metroid creatures

allegedly, one of those metroid creatures

#Metroid #pixel_dailies #pixelart @pixeldailies.bsky.social

07.12.2025 16:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 58 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Metroid Prime 4

06.12.2025 17:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 312 ๐Ÿ” 99 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Metroid Prime 4 stuff

07.12.2025 06:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 385 ๐Ÿ” 104 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#Metroid, #pixel_dailies @pixeldailies.bsky.social

07.12.2025 17:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 284 ๐Ÿ” 51 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Metroid Prime 4's credits featuring the Cinematics team

Screenshot of Metroid Prime 4's credits featuring the Cinematics team

A screenshot of Samus in her Metroid Prime 4 armor aiming her weapon at the camera.

A screenshot of Samus in her Metroid Prime 4 armor aiming her weapon at the camera.

Getting to lead the storyboard team for a Nintendo project was a dream come true. What an honor to get to contribute to the legacy of Metroid with this incredible crew.

#metroid #gaming #gamedev #filmsky

04.12.2025 19:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 638 ๐Ÿ” 87 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy Metroid Prime 4: Beyond release day!!
#MetroidPrime4Beyond

04.12.2025 14:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 654 ๐Ÿ” 230 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I adore Weychester. In its streets and wyndes one can play the game of guessing which secret society lives behind which door. Here the Order of the Clapperclaw, there the Grand Lodge of Mirrors. The Duat Club is easy to spot, but many other entrances demand our pondering. โ€“ย #CLNolan

28.11.2025 13:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 256 ๐Ÿ” 30 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The remains of the north gateway of Milecastle 37, just west of Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrianโ€™s Wall in Northumberland. ๐Ÿ“ธ My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall

29.11.2025 07:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 220 ๐Ÿ” 40 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Making these a pinned post for now.
I work as a concept artist and illustrator but more often I post my own works, thank you for looking

28.10.2024 01:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1439 ๐Ÿ” 265 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

21.11.2025 02:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 3806 ๐Ÿ” 751 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73 ๐Ÿ“Œ 32

The Metroid visual retrospective artbook seems to be stuck pre delivery on Amazon, mine got randomly canceled this morning for no reason. It seems to be available everywhere else so if you preordered it on Amazon (at least .fr or .com.be) might as well cancel it and get it somewhere else.

06.11.2025 13:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dominion Arboretum, Ottawa. #fall #nature #trees #city #travel #biking #photography

01.11.2025 14:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 103 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ๅก€ใ‚นใƒšใ‚ทใƒฃใƒซ

02.11.2025 02:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 31 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
31.10.2025 20:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 5016 ๐Ÿ” 2338 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43 ๐Ÿ“Œ 71
Red marshland

Red marshland

Forest

Forest

Island

Island

Red forest

Red forest

Some more environments

18.10.2025 00:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 530 ๐Ÿ” 139 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here's another vid to show the 3D-ness of it all!

20.10.2025 01:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 85 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The title text says: I donโ€™t know anything

The body text says: If youโ€™ve never made games before you have a huge advantage. If Iโ€™d have had any industry experience before making GMod I probably would have never made it. Your naivety is a huge advantage, itโ€™s your edge.

Donโ€™t try to emulate people who are in the industry โ€“ do your own thing, make your own mistakes, find your own way. Itโ€™ll lead you down a bunch of paths that no-one will ever take because they know the โ€˜right wayโ€™. The world needs those paths explored.

A screenshot of text on a website The title text says: I donโ€™t know anything The body text says: If youโ€™ve never made games before you have a huge advantage. If Iโ€™d have had any industry experience before making GMod I probably would have never made it. Your naivety is a huge advantage, itโ€™s your edge. Donโ€™t try to emulate people who are in the industry โ€“ do your own thing, make your own mistakes, find your own way. Itโ€™ll lead you down a bunch of paths that no-one will ever take because they know the โ€˜right wayโ€™. The world needs those paths explored.

A quote from Garry Newman [Garry's Mod] I think about often

14.07.2025 15:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 148 ๐Ÿ” 40 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
French sign saying (in French) "Crepes and chocolates", left arrow. "Cruel world", right arrow. Harvested from the webs, no idea of attribution.

French sign saying (in French) "Crepes and chocolates", left arrow. "Cruel world", right arrow. Harvested from the webs, no idea of attribution.

27.07.2025 08:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 4386 ๐Ÿ” 1201 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36 ๐Ÿ“Œ 59
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WAIT! sampling from sdf after fillet basically gives you geometry-independent AO grid ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

blender 5.0 is bussin ๐Ÿคฏ

12.10.2025 20:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 466 ๐Ÿ” 55 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Pencil drawing of a clock with an ornamental clock attached to the war damaged and restored church. A traceried window was removed to create a wide arch into an open space used as a peace garden.

Pencil drawing of a clock with an ornamental clock attached to the war damaged and restored church. A traceried window was removed to create a wide arch into an open space used as a peace garden.

The clock and archway of St Martin le Grand church in Coney Street, York. The clock is still missing the naval officer from the top. The building was badly damaged in 1942 but the clock survived.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear

16.10.2025 11:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 78 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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178 - Primitivism

11.10.2025 16:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2088 ๐Ÿ” 772 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Recently discovered Procreate and this. Tool. Is. AMAZING!! It's so intuitive and fun to use, been years since I doodled anything anymore at all and going back to it after all this time feels amazing. So so fun. Just lemme wrap/improve those sketches as much as I can then I'll post some stuff!

11.10.2025 18:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Post by artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet, reading "no i don't want to use your ai assistant. No i don't want your ai summary of reviews. No i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???) no i don't want ai to write my paper, to make my art, to edit my pictures. No i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. No i don't want ai to analyse my data. I don't want it. I don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt

This this THIS

04.11.2024 07:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 11803 ๐Ÿ” 5189 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 105 ๐Ÿ“Œ 156

Little known story about my time at Retro Studios. A very large portion of the Prime series concept art was done traditionally, and most of it was unceremoniously shoved into a flat file. I got permission and a small budget to organize, frame and hang select images (from DKC as well) in the studio.

03.10.2025 18:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 36 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Metroid (bit of color)

07.10.2025 02:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 428 ๐Ÿ” 139 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Wooden chest, carved elm c.1639

Wooden chest, carved elm c.1639

Wooden chest, carved elm c.1639

Wooden chest, carved elm c.1639

V&A East Storehouses, London E20

Wooden chest, carved elm c.1639

#reference #propreference #martialreference

07.10.2025 18:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 42 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sometimes as a 3D artist

07.10.2025 12:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 55 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1