Raph Doval-Santos

Psychologist. Loves dogs, games, and human brains. Makes nice things happen! 🇵🇭 ⬇️↘️➡️✊🏽 = 🔥 He/Him. Personal account, views own.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

We should talk more about why the disc price and the download price of a game are EVER the same

[Premier League @premierleague]

Santi Cazorla casually switching feet to take a corner 😅

[Alison Lührs @alisontheperson]

I can't elaborate but I can retweet so more people can read this

[JBond @jbondwagon]

I can’t be any happier that the first Filipino to win an NBA Championship is actually someone who suited up for Gilas Pilipinas in the world stage

You deserve to have that distinction of being the first Filipino to win the NBA Championship

Mabuhay ka, Jordan Clarkson 🫡🇵🇭

[Scripe @ScripeWoW]

Played Destiny 2 briefly 2 days ago and i have no idea how this game got cancelled. The game is a gold mine.

Truly sad. 😔

[Biwald @JosephBiwald]

Destiny 2 left a permanent mark on my life.

The memories I’ve made with this game, both as a player and as someone lucky enough to work on it, will forever stay with me. Not just because of late nights running King’s Fall with friends, or grinding out the Crucible Glorious Seal in solo queue like a complete maniac, but because Destiny 2 challenged me, shaped me, and pushed me toward becoming the creative I am today.

My journey into digital art and photography started back in 2007, when I began taking screenshots in Halo 3 and entering @Bungie community art contests. The relationships I built during that time eventually opened the door to an opportunity with Bungie’s Gameplay Capture team in 2014, helping the team capture footage for a new game called Destiny. I had no idea then that a commendably short two-week contract would turn into an incredible 12-year journey with this franchise.

I originally came to Bungie hoping to pursue environmental concept art, but along the way I had the opportunity to work on marketing art and quickly fell in love with it. Creating marketing art for a franchise like Destiny challenged me in so many different ways. It forced me to expand my technical, creative, and communication skill sets, constantly adapt, and keep learning new tools and workflows just to keep pace with the live-service beast that was Destiny 2. 

It means a lot to be able to look back and say with confidence that I had a visual impact on @DestinyTheGame; but the most meaningful part of it all was getting to work alongside and learn from so many incredible artists at Bungie, and seeing firsthand just how much care, effort, and humanity it takes to make work like this possible. It’s hard to fully capture how much energy, skill, and collaboration goes into every visual part of a game like Destiny 2. That work is shaped by artists from different backgrounds, experiences, disciplines, and perspectives. Each of them, including me, left a small part of themselves in what they created. To me, that’s what makes a game like Destiny 2 feel truly meaningful and memorable.

Especially now, in a world increasingly saturated with content and driven by instant output and gratification through AI, I keep coming back to the value of process. For me, and for so many of my peers, it was never only about arriving at the final image. It was about the journey it took to get there. The late nights. The iteration. The problem-solving. The trust. The shared pursuit of trying to make something special.

To my peers, I’m deeply proud of what we built together, but even more grateful for how we built it. We challenged each other, inspired each other, and kept showing up for one another through every high and low, as Destiny 2 has had many. That kind of shared effort leaves a lasting mark. What we made mattered. What we gave mattered. And the impact of what we built together will stay with us, and this community, for a long time.

Shoutout to the current and former members of Creative Studios, the VizD team, and the many Bungie developers and marketers who helped shape this chapter of my life. I’m especially grateful to the teammates who believed in me, encouraged me to embrace failure and new beginnings as essential parts of artistic growth, and pushed me to take on challenges even when they felt beyond my reach. You showed me that the strength of a team will always surpass that of any individual hero.

As my work on #Destiny2 comes to a close and I look toward the future, I plan to spend the next few weeks sharing some of the pieces I had the chance to create or art direct that mean the most to me. 

For now, I’ll leave you all with a collage of some of my personal favorite pieces to work on across Destiny 2’s lifetime. These projects mean so much to me because many of them started as personal passion projects or late-night concept sketches, inspired by playing early builds of Destiny 2 and by the incredible work of our development team.

[Raph Doval-Santos @heaven_spawn]

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[dmg04 @A_dmg04]

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[Raph Doval-Santos @heaven_spawn]

Petition Sony to develop Destiny 3 - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/GJ5b5QBUJe via @ChangePilipinas

[Candidly Tiff @tify330]

Wild how Pope Leo is drawing many of us non-practicing Catholics closer to our faith while will these MAGA folks are abandoning the church for Trumpism, it’s very telling.

[Stiff FC @Stiff_FC]

Rival fans use Arsenal hate as a distraction from how terribly their club is doing…

> United have just played their shortest season in 111 years. No European football. Knocked out of every cup in round 1. The only club to gift Tottenham a trophy in the past 20 years.

> Chelsea sacked their cup winning manager, for some BlueCo ‘company man’ fraud that’s just lost 3 on the trot in the hunt for Europe. Half of their best players just went on a mid-season press run criticising the club and flirting with Madrid. Looking set for another season in the Europa Conference League. Seems fitting for a manager of Roseniors calibre.

>Liverpool spent 500m and somehow got worse. Officially the worst Premier League title defence of all time. Had Slot criticise the rest of the league for being ‘anti-football’ and then adopted the very same tactics weeks later because he ironically couldn’t ‘buy’ a win. Salah’s leaving. Robertson’s leaving. But hey, if FSG want another season of Slot ball, at least he might win you a Europa League.

> and Tottenham… I don’t even need to explain it. But I will. Won a cup. Instantly sacked the man that did it. Hired 3 different managers. Fans didn’t want any of them. All have failed miserably. No wins since December. Now 18th in the league. Spent 2 years fighting relegation. Medical staff working against them. Romero is somehow their captain, yet he actively tries to get sent off every game. Genuinely embarrassing.

So actually when I think about it. No wonder you lot just end up supporting Man City every week. Despite the fact that they are the most fraudulent team in the league, still facing 115 charges, and they dunk on your team at every given opportunity. I guess anything is better than supporting your own washed club. 👍

[sean @Haurmeya]

god if this movie cane out during the baldurs gate 3 craze we’d have five sequels of the same cast playing in different campaigns as different characters but no the world sucks

[Raph Doval-Santos @heaven_spawn]

@A_dmg04 Please give us chances at red borders from past season loot, I beg thee

[That Guy @ThatGuy28780245]

I’m going to be insufferable in summer… not because I’m an “Arsenal fan” but because in the past 3 years I have witnessed…

- Liverpool fans holding a banner of Arteta dressed as a woman “Never the bride”

- Tottenham celebrate their team losing to City at home

- Haaland “Stay Humble”

- David Bentley break into Arteta’s office, take his beer and mock Arsenal because Spurs won Europa

- Slot, Hurzeler, Ten Hag, Amorim etc… complain about Arsenal’s style of football & claim that they should’ve won matches against us

- Rival fans say Arsenal don’t deserve to win the prem because they’re not “entertaining”

- Liverpool fans “drinking Arsenals tears” at a parade

- Constant calls of being “bottlejobs” from rival fans

- The silly culture of watch alongs from fans who gain fame from hating on Arsenal when their teams aren’t even in the title race or rivals of Arsenals (Kee Thomas I’m talking to you)

- Second again chants at stadiums.

- Gary Neville constantly berating our club, when he’s praising other teams for doing the same

- Jamie Carragher saying “Get down the tunnel” for a simple celebration

- Man City fans talking about “We’re breathing down on you”

- Lastly, every time we win people tell us to shut up & run online narratives because it’s Arsenal but praise other clubs for doing the same…

And I’m sure I’ve missed some.
So don’t judge Arsenal fans when we’re out n about in London with kits on. When the trophy parade shuts down the entirety of North London & Northwest London. We deserve this.

[AFC_Adi @AFC_Adi06]

Max Dowman vs Everton (H)

Youngest ever premier league goal scorer ❤️

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[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Therapist; “There is a tiger in you”

The tiger in me:

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

I think that is the best advertisement I’ve ever seen.

[Jannfreshoff @Jannfreshoff]

@redlaysdedo @poke_times DRAGONITE!!

[DonMonching #TeamPombon @Monchkinsss]

Im sorry but how is the FEATR team doing so much better than our own DOT? 😭