Ewoud van der Werf

Technical Artist

Toolbox:
My personal SDK

My very first interaction with any creative software was with Windows Movie Maker when I was 9. Using my mom's camcorder I used to shoot my Lego minifigures picture by picture and watch the movements unfold in the primitive editing software.
At that age, I always wanted to become an animator first. Just before entering high school I took an interest in computer-generated animation and found out about Blender. A program that would change my life, and introduce me to game development.

In this article I would like to simply list all the programs that I am using, I am always on the lookout to experiment with new software, especially open-source software!

Game Development

• Blender
• Unity
• Godot (learning it right now, it's amazing! 😄)
• Visual Studio Code
• FMOD
• Plastic SCM (used for past projects, currently exploring other solutions)

Production

• Affinity Designer
• Affinity Photo
• Blender (I also use Blender for simple video editing, it works great for what I need it for)
• Honeycam (IMO the best gif recorder at the moment, sadly not FOSS)
• OBS Studio
• Audacity

Productivity

• Obsidian (currently my favorite note taking app, I use it both personally and professionally)
• Notion
• Discord (while not ideal in a professional environment, a lot of important conversations are done through Discord)

Other

• Hugo (at the time of writing this post, I am converting ewoud.dev to Hugo)
• Three.js (used for schim.art, and when displaying 3D on the web)