Paul Pepera. Gone from us.
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This is really hard to write - I've been a major, major fan of his works for a long time. Per Ardua Ad Astra, Paul.
https://blog.astroneer.space/system-era/goodebyepaul/
https://blog.astroneer.space/system-era/goodebyepaul/
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RIP
Paul Pepera
His twitter account has been closed so I suspect his family might be wanting to take down some of his social media presence. With respect of that in mind I'd like to link to some of his work here:
http://polycount.com/discussion/108475/experiments-in-sci-fi-door-design#latest
When it comes to hard surface you can't get much better than this.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rZ2dL
I think he started this for a Polycount vehicle comp. Giving Tor a run for his money.
http://2d.zol-img.com.cn/product/111/269/cekcpnXrava0k.jpg
Some of his polycount links are broken, but I found his lunar lander by google image search.
Goodbye from a kindred Paul.
Best wishes to his friends and family
Many years ago, I remember having Paul's portfolio site bookmarked on my bookmarks bar. When I was teaching myself hard-surface modeling, I'd look at his work whenever I was discouraged and it just awed me.
My deepest condolences to those who knew Paul. I wish I'd had the chance to tell him what an impact his work had on me.
Rest in peace, friend.
RIP.
My condolences to his family and friends.
Rest in peace.
I've had this as a desktop for as long as I can remember. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qNR . I always looked at his work back then and my mind just could comprehend the amount of work that goes into pieces like this. Then he started using marvelous designer and I was like "wtf!......." *Mind blown!
A true pioneer of hard surface. Will be missed greatly.
RIP Paul.
I went through his posts and threads, and onto his site. The hard surface stuff I found there caused me to choose my Uni modules around environment and hard surface art. I did my final year project heavily influenced and inspired by his Scifi door experiments. I found what I wanted to do in the industry becuase of a simple comment left on a thread years ago, and now I'm working full time doing a job I love as a result.
So this hit me pretty hard.
Goodbye Paul and thank you for everything.
My condolences to his friends and family.
My thoughts go out to the team at System Era as well.
As a member of a small indie team myself I can't imagine losing one of your own.
RIP Paul.
A few months back a friend had a medical emergency and didn't come back to work, thankfully he's recovering now, but it hits you hard when you sit next to someone almost all day and something tragic happens to them. I didn't know Paul personally, but it feels the same way, we're all artists who want to make the things we love, and even if it's posting your own work on artstation, or helping with critiques here on polycount, someone will find value in it and feel inspired.
Had to say that to lift the weight off my chest, I guess my point is that everything is unknown and anything is sudden, I appreciate all of you and all of your work. RIP Paul!
Pete
My condolences go out to his family and friends.
Imagine how it would be a little homage to Paul by them, a facebook post, anything, to get his work and legacy closer to anyone as fascinated with the deep space exploration as he was? I think he would be happy...
May he live on our memories as the great artist he was.
My condolences to his family.