AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Virtual art department & AWS Deadline Cloud: Running Virtual Art Department (VAD) workflows on AWS, game artists and designers can remove bottlenecks and streamline the building of game assets.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 3, 2025

This might sound contrived, but one of the most valuable skills for any developer will always be communicating effectively. The vast majority of my work is collaborating with other people - people with differing attention levels, goals, personalities, priorities, and internal ways of thinking.

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Not to mention the rather neglected rugby game genre, abandoned by AAA since 2008.) New Zealanders might recognize the art style of Toby Morris , who did some character designs for us, and will hopefully do some more as we progress. I don't blame the devs, I'm sure they pitch fresh ideas every year!

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

This is the workflow for creating a AAA model of an AK-47, using Maya, Substance Designer, Substance Painter and Marmoset. Maya is considered the better choice when you are trying to create more complex art. At Logic Simplified , a leading game development company , we created an FPS game Mr. 45. The more you have, the better it is!

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Concept Art World

JANUARY 13, 2021

Concept Art World. He has worked on games titles such as Ghost Of Tsushima , EVE Online , Dust 514 , World of Darkness and various other AAA games. The post Mitchell Mohrhauser first appeared on Concept Art World. Mitchell Mohrhauser. Mitchell Mohrhauser is a concept designer and illustrator working in the game industry.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 7, 2024

Merry and Kom have over thirty years of experience in AAA, mobile, and indie game development. Merry worked at Electronic Arts for nearly 15 years as a development director, having overseen development and shipping of titles such as FIFA, Need for Speed, and Battlefield.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

In AAA, the roles are typically very specialized and each individual doesn’t have much room to experiment outside of their responsibilities. I get to wear every hat, from 3D art to level design to marketing and everything in-between. “Motivation is a limited resource that will inevitably wear out in a year or two.

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Indie DB

JULY 13, 2023

Handcrafted from scratch by an AAA developer gone rogue and a visionary artist, it will offer a modern take on pixel art. Kiyo is a new single player 2D platform adventure. Have a sneak peek at some of the gameplay and technical features that we are.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Art Boost is a new segment added to the podcast last year and it was to promote and learn from artists breaking down personal projects, techniques, & workflows. Topics discussed in this episode : 0265: Art Boost | Sculpting AAA Realistic Characters with Lisa Loseva. 0257: Art Boost | VR Sculpting with Joel Durnham.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Special attention must be paid to game art design, as the visual element is one of the most meaningful aspects of the entertainment industry. The art design can be critical to the game’s overall success. Why Should Art Tasks Be Outsourced to Video Game Companies? Seasoned artists who are best versed in the required type of art.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Although it’s difficult to find a trustworthy game art outsourcing studio with a solid industry background and portfolio, I’ll show you 10 reliable art outsourcing companies in this blog. . Tips on Finding the Perfect Art Outsourcing Company. Tips on Finding the Perfect Art Outsourcing Company.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It is a key tool for creating virtual reality (VR) games because it allows artists to create concept art for characters, environments, and game assets. Popularly used in many AAA games, Adobe Substance 3D also has a VR modeling app called Substance 3D Modeler, which allows users to model 3D assets using motions that mimic real-life sculpting.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 3, 2024

Every major studio I've worked at generally has their own automated build system. These build systems are not shared between projects at the same publisher. This is because each game has its own file structure, asset list, and scripts that must be processed alongside building the code in order to result in a functioning game build.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 17, 2024

Bridget’s character art formed the basis for our game’s overall look, with our art director Kate Craig (Gone Home, Tacoma) adapting the line work, colors, and overall vibe into our environments. For much of the game’s dev cycle, I was also writing full time on AAA projects, like Control and Gotham Knights.

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Game Development News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Airship offer full end-to-end games art and implementation services to leading international game developers and AAA studios. The MCV/Develop Women in Games Awards has announced that Airship Interactive is the headline sponsor for the 2024 event.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Dramatic lights and shadows Midnight Girl showcases a captivating art style that carries Ryder’s distinctive signature. “I Early sketches by Thomas Ryder It’s an art style he really made his own. “I When I do a drawing, I spend 95% of the time struggling to make it look decent.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Dramatic lights and shadows Midnight Girl showcases a captivating art style that carries Ryder’s distinctive signature. “I Early sketches by Thomas Ryder It’s an art style he really made his own. “I When I do a drawing, I spend 95% of the time struggling to make it look decent.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 24, 2023

It was founded by a group of seasoned developers who were instrumental in the success of several AAA franchises including The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and, Dying Light. Art Director Wojciech Ostrycharz found inspiration for the art style on the covers of sci-fi books from when The Invincible novel was published.

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Juego Studio

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Game characters convey emotions and experiences to gamers. Whether they are the central characters or non-playing characters (NPC), their role is very important in showcasing the motivation and actions supported by the storyline.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Combine a Valve-like artful level design core with Destiny's tight skill tree, as well as Fortnite loot systems and skins, and you can imagine a somewhat decent pitch that lets the studio keep its soul despite a blood pact with the Zenimax money vampires. that a bigger US AAA or a non-US indie would've failed to capture.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

QQ Speed An arcade racer implementing TCG mechanics The first game on our list is QQ Speed , an arcade racing game with a manga-inspired art style that’s been very successful in the Chinese market. The narrative is a vital part of the drive toward in-game progression.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

And I see it as the ultimate compilation of art(s) – light, sound, visuals, narrative, mechanics, psychology – a crafted or distilled experience. I don’t dare to think that a small, solo developer can craft something at the same scale and complexity of a AAA game’s magnitude, but that competition was never the goal.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Let's say that we're working on the camera functionality for in-game cinematics for a narrative-heavy AAA game like the Witcher or Dragon Age. The designers figure out how the camera needs to behave for the intended player experience and then the engineers figure out how to translate those behavior rules into code.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 10, 2023

The specifics determine the kind of roles we need to hire - the cinematics team might need several animators, the quest team might need two narrative designers and a gameplay engineer, the item art team might need a VFX artist and a technical artist, and so on and so forth.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

SHINY ART STYLE: The most obvious difference vs its Skyrim mod roots is the art style -- it went from 2011 pre-PBR Skyrim to 2020 UE4 Quixel 4k photoscans with subsurface scatter'd Character Creator NPCs. "It This community doesn't care about art or theater. Worldbuilding wise, it doesn't quite make sense.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 5, 2023

As I said in my last GoWR piece (which got quite a lot of reads), it's kind of futile to critique big AAA games. The Question of Games As Art Video games, as an art form, are a tug of war between two factions. On the other end: Some dream of video games as High Art. This is why Video Games will always fight with High Art.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

I went through a Bachelor of Creative Arts, and then through Film School, all looking for bigger and better art forms. Painting or art I could work on everyday, but I felt it wasn’t broad enough. These were small versions of the AAA games I had played a lot of, but they were just as enjoyable.”

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I went through a Bachelor of Creative Arts, and then through Film School, all looking for bigger and better art forms. Painting or art I could work on everyday, but I felt it wasn’t broad enough. These were small versions of the AAA games I had played a lot of, but they were just as enjoyable.”

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The Bottom Feeder

JULY 24, 2023

Never trust professional reviews of AAA games. I believe a successful life in art needs, in some way, to come from love. Every year, a half dozen AAA games make enormous fortunes despite being barely functional. Also, wait for user reviews of games. Never trust anyone. But whatever. Promising products fail. Stuff happens.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 28, 2024

Consider - in AAA games, we bring on entire teams of QA to test every day during production. How do they find that many bugs? Imagine 50 testers each find only five bugs a day from a full eight hours of testing. That's logging a combined 250 bugs daily. In a week, you've got 1,250 bugs. After a month, that's 5,000 bugs.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s a testament to the fact that with passion, perseverance, and a little bit of pixel art, anything is possible. Art truly feeds into art, and there’s a myriad of inspiration that shapes the creation of “Lucid” Besides Studio Ghibli, I revealed a surprising muse: Kanye West. ” The tools?

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Evgeny Makarov, Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA Jakub Knapik, Art Director at CDPR Our Sniper Elite 4 Journey – Lessons in Porting AAA Action Games to the Nintendo Switch The Asura engine, entirely developed in-house by Rebellion, has allowed the independent developer/publisher the maximum creative and technical freedom.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning (bit.ly/GamingSEL). GamingSEL). For more, please visit MatthewFarber.com.

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I cherish the games that do it well, sigh at the games that don't, and quietly pull my hair out when a game with really shaky writing gets hailed as high art. Joss Whedon mastered the art of mixing serious events with wacky dialogue. Because video game storytelling is usually pretty lousy. I want to do my own wacky trick ending!"

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2019

From match-3 puzzlers to immersive first person space operas, video gaming is an art form as varied and valuable as literature, film, and theatre. The rich variety of tooling available to games developers has delivered an explosion of creativity over the past decade. Democratising game development.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Some say Unreal is better just because it’s a common choice for AAA studios. Created by Epic Games in 1988, Unreal has won worldwide recognition for high-end graphics and photorealistic quality and has taken the mantle as the AAA game engine. Unreal, on the other hand, is considered to be the main player in the AAA industry.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning (bit.ly/GamingSEL). GamingSEL). For more, please visit MatthewFarber.com.

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