Olly Skillman-Wilson

@thepixelcrush.com

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🖌️ Lead Environment Artist on Blackfrost: The Long Dark II 💼 Currently Hinterland ↪️ Previously Graceful Decay, Big Robot Ltd, Aardman. 🏭 Climate anxieter, 🍺 cider appreciator, 🎹 prog snob, 🏘️ Bristolian. he/him 🌐 www.thepixelcrush.com

A whisky coloured Maine Coone lady
a note of a single pattern, a hub and spoke graph of its immediate connections, and zoomed out megagraph of hundreds of individial notes all connecting in a giant pattern web.
A screenshot of a LinkedIn email showing the fashion network and British army are searching for people like me (environment artists)
Sennheiser HD650 headphones with sparkling new headband.
A cracked sennheiser hd650 head band
An illustrative sampler changing proportion, size, dials, knobs, pads, the occasional oozing eyeball.
a Tidal feed showing IN VERSES - Karnivool, Manifeste - Tigran Hamasyan, Normal Isn't - Puscifer
Variants of a rectanguler music sampler with pads and dials and screens and little gorey eyeballs, but in an illustrative style.
Such sampler, many pedal, much cable.
Model samples, chase bliss onward, wmd Geiger counter, and other pedals blinking under sonic duress.
Model samples, chase bliss onward, wmd Geiger counter, and other pedals blinking under sonic duress.
A model samples playing a simple beat, and several blinking pedals on a home made pedalboard.
Atsu looks down on a defeated samurai in the long grass at night, fireflies circle
A cellophane wrapped copy of ghost of yotei for PS5
A model samples blinking in time to a distorted groove. Lots of budget used guitar pedals.
a packed seated venue, 6 chairs on a stage, green lighting and long curtains
A sampler flashing on a pedal board, knobs get turned.
A sampler on a pedal board with lots of pedals and a small DJ mixer.
Obsidian's graph view of all my notes and their connections. It looks like a circle made of tiny linked dots, grouped by colours.
Grey cat flopped on the floor between my feet
An elektron model:samples on a home made ply pedal board, pedals and mixer blink to the music.
Sampler, pedals, and mixer scattered across a wooden coffee table.
A small mixer, sampler, and lots of pedals and cables in low lighting. Cutoffs and levels change as knobs are turned. Lights blink.
A nice kilner jar in a wooden counter top filled with slices of cucumber, onion, garlic cloves, herbs, and vinegar.
Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Black Planet
A shelf with loads of guitar pedals cabled together with a sampler. Lights blink, knobs get turned.
More FX pedals, more knob turning.
A mess of wires and pedals on a shelf, knobs get turned.
One team walking in procession with skates over states and trans people belong in sports banners, in front of other cheering teams
Bunch of guitar pedals, a DJ mixer, and an elektron model samples blinking away on a shelf. Hands turn the dials.
A temperature and humidity sensor with a display showing 28 degrees C and a fire symbol
Lots of effects pedals and a sampler getting their knobs tweaked.
Lots of FX pedals cabled together on a shelf, flowing into a small 8 track mixer. Lots of dials get turned.
1 minute of very aggressive sounding synth and pedals.
Groove box, 2 chains of guitar pedals, and an 8 channel mixer on a shelf.
Picture of Lewis Hamilton after his Ferrari signing announcement looking like a mafioso.
3 fx pedals on a bookshelf, with some patch cables in the background. Two small, one larger with white knobs on, they are various shiny shades of blue and black.
A pink mini guitar pedal with knobs that look like 8bit eyes and the words crush on the front.
A pine shelf with a small beige groove box on it, books and mugs and headphones scattered around. Red buttons flashing in time to the beat.
As you inspect the scrap, the ghost of their original place in a bigger structure becomes apparent. Each piece suggests a whole; a drive casing, a loading bay, a life support unit. You burn away corrosion with a torch, crack open rusted casings to release the components inside like seeds. You find new life in the broken and discarded pieces.
The frosty path around Looe bar pool on a bright winters morning.
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle screenshot of Gina in a river boat in Siam
Far Cry 2 wallpaper
Minerva the Maine coon looking startled next to a red ribbon and white fake Christmas tree.
A flash game logo reads: Hero Squad Rapid Response
A small Maine coon face peaking through a window pane on an internal door.
Whisky the Maine coon sitting in an in tray looking serious.
An internet archive web page showing the Victorian garden catalogue cover
A catalogue page titled: door styles. There are a lot of line drawings of doors with different panel and window configurations, each one named.
A mobile app energy dashboard for home assistant, showing overall consumption, power flow, energy graphs, plus data for individual devices including the heat pump. Then a second page showing some hot water temperatures and a graph of temperature over time.
Autumn leaves on a path leading to a stile
Substance Designer nodes grouped up and labelled Flagstones, Rill, Cracks, Diffuse, Normal & Roughness, Blend Mask, Gold, PBR Renders.
the flagstone diffuse texture tiling with multiple evenly spaced gold rills
4 different random seeds for a procedural flagstone floor with a rill containing gold spilling out of it.
Robots models with topology wireframes visible
robots lightly clad in red armour, standing on a turntable.
Spooky brutalist bunker cave