Felipe Caravelli

3D Environment Artist @ Apogee Entertainment
Lead Artist & Level Designer — Twisted Tower to contract & full-time opportunities

[Victor Lucas @Victor_Lucas]

Some very smart Canadian investors should be swooping in to build a new AAA publisher/developer in Edmonton right now with the juice to compete with CD Projekt Red, Larian and Remedy.

Build those Edmonton-made games and then source other excellent Canadian-based developers.

Canadians are excellent game makers.

LFG!

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

@signalspikedev 100%

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

@BLlackEnd Very talented! Great work!

[Blackened (COMMISSIONS OPEN) @BLlackEnd]

Chibi Characters #pixelart #animation

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

Amazing stuff, super excited to check this out!

[CatHuntTree || Wishlist Shell Soldier on Steam! @CatHuntTree]

🚨Shell Soldier Release Date Trailer 🚨

Wishlist and mark your calendars folks!

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

@neku93932 Fantastic work!

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

The one that got away... @bioware.

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

@dagobahresdr Agreed, we need a much better curation system, it's going to be tough to leave that up to the audience.

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

🙂‍↔️

[Smashley @SmashleyTwitch]

This is disgusting...

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

Some pixel art is worth melting for.🫠

[Silent Planet - Wishlist on Steam @SlntPlanetGame]

A glimpse into just a small fraction of the enemies inhabiting Silent Planet - Elegy of a Dying World.

#SilentPlanet #VertexZeroGames #RedDunesGames

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

@tapsteady @thomasbrushdev Thank you for the repost 🙏

[Mark Meer @Mark_Meer]

I joined my @masseffect co-star and fellow Commander Shepard @jhaletweets live on IG to discuss today’s sad @bioware news and to commiserate with fans…

Keelah se'lai. 🫡

#MassEffect #BioWare #CommanderShepard #MassEffectIsAlive

https://t.co/yxaDUaucFb

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

@OwlcatGames is doing a phenomenal job with this IP, very excited to see more 👀

[The Expanse: Osiris Reborn @TheExpanseRPG]

BioWare has always inspired us, and it's hard to say goodbye to our idols. Thank you for everything, @BioWare. Many of us wouldn’t be in the games industry without your legacy.

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

Great read.

[Alan @APater6076]

@Mapocolops If anyone hasn't read it, I highly recommend the Kotaku article on Anthem and it's highly troubled gestation and eventual death for a prime example of what was wrong at Bioware even back then. https://t.co/HgmhC6ymvI

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

This 👆🏻

[Mapocolops @Mapocolops]

Reminder:
- EA cancelled the Single Player Dragon Age 4 in development from 2015-2017

- Pushed them to create a live service Dragon Age because of trend chasing. They considered multiplayer the future of gaming, "nobody plays single player games anymore" except then Jedi Fallen Order released with huge success and they pivoted again.

- After 3 years of development on Live Service Age from 2018-2021, EA & Bioware decide to remove the Multiplayer component but instead of rebooting a second time they gave them 18 months to rip out all that live service work and have them make it a single player game AGAIN, at a significant disadvantage to meet expectations.

- Six years of wasted development now, when a lot of the series veterans had been laid off or quit out of frustration with EA along with numerous management and staff changes. Among these names are David Gaider, Mike Laidlaw, and later before Veilguard's release Mary Kirby. Her departure was an abysmal sign for the future of DA before this next game had even released.

- This resulted in the announcement of Dragon Age Dreadwolf in 2022, later renamed Veilguard which retained the scars of it's live service development when it released in 2024 and was never the true game Bioware would have given us if they hadn't been constantly fucked around.
We could and should have had the intended Dragon Age 4 before 2020, instead it took almost a DECADE for the follow up.

The worst things these companies do is trend chase something, with zero foresight on temporary trends. By the time you release that game public opinion has shifted. Rocksteady's Suicide Squad as a clear example of this too.
Just let creative people make something they are passionate about and stop putting them in boxes. Let developers make something real by giving them time and resources to deliver something memorable with a clear goal, not a post mortem example like Anthem on how not to develop a game.

EA has been fucking over Bioware basically since they acquired them. Issues with Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard aside as yes all three have their issues and you'll even have people going back to Mass Effect 3/DA2/Inquisition with issues as well; a lot of this comes from a long long period of EA pushing Bioware into a corner and then watching them be a punching bag for it. It also comes from internal schisms within Bioware where there was a strange Mass Effect vs Dragon Age rift and David Gaider said they may as well have been two different studios with how the culture was different, plus the writers getting fucked over at every turn.

People taking the lowest hanging fruit possible and are gonna just say it was Veilguard, it was Anthem, it was Andromeda etc that sealed their fate when in actual reality it was a long list of issues going back 15+ years that led to the issues within those games in the first place.

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

Profoundly sad about @bioware and all the incredible people involved with its closure; the studio's name will be heavily missed, but its legacy will always remain.

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

@JackHammerLane Thank you Jack! You nailed it, that's exactly what I was going for here, being heavily inspired by Event Horizon and older horror franchises. Thank you for the repost, wishing you a great day and stay tuned for more ;)

[Felipe Caravelli @ArtCaravelli]

Hello, I'm Felipe! I'm a 3D Env Artist and Level Designer, currently at Apogee Entertainment, as well as Lead Artist & Level Designer on Twisted Tower.

I'll be sharing artwork and updates on game development projects here. Open to new opportunities!
https://t.co/eiB9Yo2yMW