Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

After tweaking and testing both enemies' AI behavior, we're now confident these baddies will properly engage and attack during gameplay. Here's a look at some of the pieces Nick created for this purpose, including a cool homage to our studio itself. Animation / Rigging / Production. Take a peek!  [link]. Can you spot it?

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D models can be rigged and then animated, placed as stationary objects in a scene by a layout artist, simulated or destroyed by an FX artist, and used for shadows or holdouts by a lighting artist. Texture artist - Texture artists specialize in creating the surface qualities (colors, patterns, sheens, etc.) What does a 3D animator do?

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

I used GenoTerra to research and reflect about the design process using procedural generation in the creation of base shapes that the designer/s in a studio can use to create a more coherent game world. To rig and animate the character I could have used of course my preferred 3D-modelling software, but I found an amazing (it really is!)

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

and try your luck at winning a FREE PS5 Disc Edition, courtesy of women-lead indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Featuring the latest releases from studios large and small—and from developers old and new—Play NYC celebrates every facet of gaming in a way that only the Big Apple can. Rigging / Animation.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

DLSS is powered by dedicated AI processors on RTX GPUs called Tensor Cores. Images courtesy: Zhelong Xu, Adobe Substance, LeeGriggs, Autodesk Arnold, Mondlicht Studios, Chaos V-Ray, Madis Epler, Otoy Octane, Oly Stingel, Redshift, Siemens Digital Industries Software NanoVDB NanoVDB adds real-time rendering GPU support for OpenVDB.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. link] Rigging / Animation. We're certain our testers are especially happy to have that last one addressed.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. link] Rigging / Animation. and they're not wrong. Here's a peek at some of Ricardo's work from this sprint.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Welcome back to the newest issue of the Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation chronicling all the magic and mystery the Astral Clocktower Studios dev team puts into indie ARPG Kristala every development sprint. Speaking of more important tasks, Shelly has become the resident texture expert of the Astral Clocktower Studios dev family.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

He also set up a new system built into the base code for our AI to allow us to easily enable or disable targeting an enemy in Blueprints (for things such as hiding enemies or enemies that are temporarily invisible to the player). Animation / Rigging / Game Production. Here's a peek at some of Joe's recent work.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Bringing the new model for our Leech enemy into UE4 and transferring the stand-in Leech's AI to the new version.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

That’s one of the reasons why we’re able to help thousands of people become pro game developers and get hired in the best game studios in the world and why we have thousands of people who did just that. The Target Actor parameter is the target to which AI is going to move, in our case the player character.

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