Joseph Cross ✓
@josephacross · Bellevue, WA · joined 28 Jan 2009
Art Director & Artist - Marathon. Dune. Destiny...
30 869Followers
917Following
916Posts total
1.8MViews on collected posts
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Massive congrats to the @Kepler_Interact @Shapefarm teams on Orbitals, the game is gorgeous and super fun.
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Jeremy Hanna https://t.co/N9wi9t2URw https://t.co/TMJJdBT4wU
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Orbitals is out now! https://t.co/gTYqMGmhQG
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Always hyped for the new R̶u̶n̶n̶e̶r̶ ̶s̶h̶e̶l̶l̶s̶ Tour De France team gear & liveries to be revealed. https://t.co/EOb45ufzgB
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@josephacross https://t.co/IjcmWNOqol what about this inspiration
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@josephacross Y’all need to throw some Johnny Hardstaff on that board. https://t.co/YPfLSSLRIO
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We've come a long way and still have work to do, I can't wait to show you more.
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There are also a ton of influences outside of games. Product and apparel design, photography, science, conceptual art, cinematography, sports like Formula 1 and MotoGp etc. are all big sources of inspiration.
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The work of Alberto Mielgo and the affect Into The Spiderverse had on Blockbuster animation has given us a ton of strength and confidence to take more visual & creative risks.
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OG Marathon, and Wipeout (to name few) are full of interesting visual qualities and ideas, just as much as next/current gen games like Death Stranding, God of War, and The Last of US are.
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A lot of you have already identified many of our visual influences, Mirrors Edge, Aeon Flux, Ghost in the Shell, Otomo, Koji Morimoto, The Designers Republic, Chris Cunningham, are all definitely in our "stew" of inspiration.
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Giving ourselves freedom in limitation through a defined set of executional constraints will hopefully help us get there. We are looking back at games from previous generations for inspiration just as much as we are looking forward. We believe Games like Metal Gear Solid 2,
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proportions & scale, implied functional & detail, and a generally grounded world. We're focused on creating visual "brand" of science fiction, that (hopefully) feels fresh and stands the test of time.
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meant to frame how we think about and prioritize aspects of our visual world. On one side it's about a simplified/deconstructed universal design language, strong graphic design and color statements, and limited materials. The other side is about realistic
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production and marketing team. There's been some curiosity around what we're calling the Marathon art style, hopefully this sheds a bit of light on it. Officially we call it "Graphic Realism", this is mainly a production facing term,
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Marathon Art Style (a short thread). First of all thanks to everyone for all the kind words and enthusiasm for the art style/direction in our announce trailer, it's been amazing to see. This was the result of many talented artists working together, with the support of an amazing
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Against accounts of the same size
4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views21 875this account914median for 10K–100K
Reach, %70.86%this account3.38%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %3.81%this account1.53%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 21 875 | 914 | 23.9× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 70.86% | 3.38% | 21.0× |
| Engagement rate | 3.81% | 1.53% | 2.49× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
50.1K30 May
51.4K
58.2K
56.7K
43.5K
52.6K
50.7K
34.8K
21316 May
69.9K18 Jun
23K5 Jul
50.6K3 Sep
17.6K4 Sep
20.7K5 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.88%30 May
0.79%
0.97%
0.78%
1.14%
0.80%
0.85%
0.74%
6.10%16 May
4.09%18 Jun
5.32%5 Jul
1.82%3 Sep
8.51%4 Sep
2.30%5 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.53%.
What the audience does
Likes74.5%18 259 in total
Reposts6.8%1 671 in total
Replies1.5%373 in total
Quotes0.9%209 in total
Bookmarks16.3%4 005 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
13 Sep
Daily snapshots since 13 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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