Matt Hill

@matthill.co

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Making digital things since 1993. Works in Government Digital Services, previously Natural History Museum, FutureLearn and many more. Book lover. Old buildings enthusiast. Occasional artist. Always put humans before tech. matthill.co

Screenshots of the Curves adjustment window from both PhotoShop and Affinity, with arrows pointing to the helpful floating lines in the PhotoShop version. Those lines don't exist in the Affinity version -- where did they go?
A cropped image of a young girl holding a smartphone and staring at it intently. We can't see her face except for her nose, mouth and chin and her expression appears slack-jawed.
Quake Brutalist Jam start map screenshot showing strange concrete architecture with pillars, skylights, a carpeted area and some wooden furniture.
Inside the main atrium of the Quake Brutalist Jam #3 start map. A vast concrete octagonal cylinder with galleries leading off to portals for each user map.
The wrap-around book cover art of Gordon R. Dickson's "Masters of Everon" showing a pride of lions resting on orange coloured mountain rocks, against a lurid backdrop of a yellow/green sky with a planet and distant mountains.
The cover of the 1984 edition of The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, depicting the surface of Mars with strange rock formations, an atmosphere and some humans without spacesuits looking away at the landscape. It is toned in orange, yellow and green.
Screenshot of a Google search query for "itc johnston you work for them", with the AI response starting with a disclaimer: "I am an AI, a large language model trained by Google, and I do not work for any specific company or individual, including ITC Johnston.
A detail of a game level showing two concrete walls overlapping and intersecting with a square concrete bollard, with a lawn on one side and a path on the other.
Central Aquatic Sports Complex named after Lenin Komsomol. ( Now: Laguna Vere Aquatic Sports Complex) Tbilisi, Georgia, Built in 1978 Architect Sh.Kavalashvili,G.Abuladze, R.Kiknadze. (c) BACU
Screenshot from an old multiplayer Duke Nukem level I made in 1996/97 called Blowport, featuring some warehouse style buildings and a little dock. Most of the buildings can be blown up in some fashion.
An experimental Quake map of a brutalist building full of oval windows that curve around the curve of the concrete walls.
A screenshot from an unfinished Quake map in TrenchBroom, showing a cathedral interior. Half the interior is built from various shaped brushes which are grouped together, then duplicated and mirrored to complete the other side. The grouped elements are shown in red wireframe.
An unfinished Quake level, the inside of a concrete cathedral showing vast concrete columns and beams with diamond shaped windows framed in black concrete. The scene is lit with a purple tint in the shadows and the highlights are in a soft yellow.
An unfinished low-poly 3D model of a brownstone tenement block, showcasing some metallic looking windows that reflect the colours of the environment map.
A screenshot of a work-in-progress website design, showing images of birds in full colour when displayed in the system's "light mode".
A work in progress Quake level with lots of concrete pillars and concrete framed windows, looks a bit like like the inside of a concrete cathedral.
A work in progress Quake level inside a concrete structure. There are huge windows with concrete frames, concrete pillars and supports, and some candles. The scene is lit with lilac twilight from the windows and a warmer yellow light somewhere within.
A work in progress Quake level inside an unknown structure with lots of concrete pillars and supporting beams. Scene is lit with lilac twilight entering huge windows and a warmer yellow light somewhere within.
An incomplete Quake level, made as a concrete structure, roughly cube shaped with steep stairs, archways, circular openings and set on a platform floating in the sky. Based on the works of sculptor David Umemoto.
An unfinished interior of a supposed medieval inn, with wood pillars and beams supporting a wooden ceiling, with stone floors and arched stone windows and wooden window frames. Built in low-fidelity 3D using Trenchbroom and rendered in the Ironwail Quake engine.
An attempt to build a map for the second Quake Brutalist Jam, showing some kind of concrete tower with diamond shaped windows and a triangular arched doorway. The scale was all wrong, much too small, and I'd started texturing much too early so it wasn't really salvageable without a ton of work. Built in low-fidelity 3D using Trenchbroom and rendered in the Ironwail Quake engine. Textures by Ben Hale (Makkon).
The entrance gate to Percy's park, from the Percy the Park keeper kids books, built in low-fidelity 3D using Trenchbroom and rendered in the Ironwail Quake engine.
A work in progress screenshot of a castle gatehouse, part of a custom level for Quake. An arched entrance with a half open portcullis surmounted by a crenellated tower is set against a dusky summer sky with fluffy clouds.
A mockup cover design of Fighting Fantasy gamebook "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain" using original art by Peter Andrew Jones.
A brown and yellow spotted Speckled Wood butterfly with torn wings alighted on a shiny evergreen leaf.
An orange orb weaver spider (Araneus diadematus) sitting upside down on its web waiting for the next meal to land.
Common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) is a very common yellow wild flower in the family Asteraceae that is native to northern Eurasia, usually in dry, open places, and has also been widely distributed as a weed elsewhere.
A brown and yellow spotted Speckled Wood butterfly with torn wings alighting on a shiny evergreen leaf.
A raised flower bed full of pink poppy flowers being visited by bees.
A screenshot from Scotland's Home of the Year on iPlayer showing usage of the Hill House typeface designed by Jon Hicks.
Three of the same image of a Hobby, a bird of prey with grey wings and head, a beige rump and neck, russet leg feathers and orange yellow legs. It was painted by John Gerard Keulemans c.1885. The first image is the original book scan with a yellow/grey colour cast. The second image removes the cast a small amount while retaining the overall colour palette and contrast. The last image removes the entire colour cast, boosts colour saturation and rebalances contrast levels to maximise the colour range of the image.
An illustration of an African Guinea Fowl from "Icones Avium" drawn and coloured by Elizabeth Gould.
Contemporaneous individual portraits of John and Elizabeth Gould in monochrome.
An etching from the classical architecture book "Rules and examples of perspective, proper for painters and architects, etc. In English and Latin" from 1709, depicting the inside of an ornate cupola receding away from the viewer, highlighting the perspective of the classical columns, corbels and archways.
A screengrab of a tweet on X from the Whitehouse account that says in all caps "Do not retaliate and you will be rewarded". The context is raising tariffs on China to 125% while temporarily pausing tariffs on other countries .
A screenshot from the ArtBin website with a popup window stating "Under Construction: Our website is currently under construction. We apologize for the inconvenience. In the meantime, you can shop in our Amazon Store (https://www.amazon.com/artbin)" and a button labelled "Shop Our Amazon Store".
Screenshot of hicks.design showing a broken layout on Chrome in Windows 10. The header and footer have pushed the main content below the footer so it seems like it's missing.