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SteamID64	76561198062501955
SteamID3	[U:1:102236227]
SteamID32	STEAM_0:1:51118113
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Signed Up	August 28, 2015
Last Posted	March 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Posts	288 (0.1 per day)

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76561198062501955

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[U:1:102236227]

SteamID32

STEAM_0:1:51118113

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Canada

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August 28, 2015

Last Posted

March 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM

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288 (0.1 per day)

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uberchainYour composition's pretty good. Try more background scene-building; even if you've got a nice DOF, sometimes adding more than the dude & the dude's loadout helps. Granted with loadout posters it makes sense but I really like that Spy poster where there's a Sniper and a Spy running in the background, that sort of makes it feel balanced in the sense of there is life other than the dude & the dude's loadout. Like crates, barrels, a dumptruck, more dead people - experiment around with that.

This was my early work when I started in 2013.
This is some of the most recent stuff that I've done now.

I've got more hours in SFM than I do TF2, clocking in at 4400+ and still adding hours as I type this. I relied a lot on Photoshop when I first got started because a) I didn't know SFM's UI at all and b) would have been a shame to waste the Visual Communications ACA for PS CS6 that I just graduated with. Did not learn about adjusting FOV or importing the stock animations until like a year later, and there's still things I'm learning about SFM to this day. (Like I just learned during Tip of the Hats that you could go first-person with the lights I do not pay attention or watch enough tutorials.) Eventually Photoshop stopped being as big of a crutch as it was, I've begun using it sparingly for super-imposing & post-processing after I became familiar with shit like material override strings.

Within SFM, some easy eye-candy tricks I like using that other people use are tilted cameras, DOF, rimlights & volumetric lights. Post-processing in Photoshop, I usually tend to toss on a soft filter with subtle diffuse glow, then a levels contrast boost & a subtle vignette. Sometimes I'll fiddle with selective colour or saturation/vibrance. A very miniscule amount of surface blur does wonders for all the grainy stuff (though it kills some fine facial details every now and then).

Sometimes a lot of post-processing goes into non-TF2 shit. Here's some Overwatch, Frozen & Mirror's Edge renders I did with my Before & After processes.

I collect a lot of models and props to jerry-rig together or reskin, so a couple of people have called me SFM's Dr. Frankenstein. Otherwise, I want to make things that I want to see, that I think people want to see more of, or don't want to see at all. If it doesn't exist and I want it to exist, that means I have to make it. That's probably one of the reasons that I wanted to do promotion for competitive TF2 once I had a taste of what competitive TF2 was.

Your work is amazing! Its pretty evident how much time and work you've put in and I only dream to get to the point you're at...