PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. A large majority of the art was created from scratch, but Hartley admits having used a few asset packs to help speed up development. “I

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

Even though an AK-47 was not used as an asset, I got the opportunity to test my skill and indulge in my passion. Collecting reference images I believe that before any good asset is created, its image is already imprinted in the mind. Seasoned gaming studios like ours love Maya for its features and flexibility.

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Ask a Game Dev

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Motion/Performance capture usually happens fairly early during development, because animators need time to take the captured data and turn it into actual performances. Much of what animators do during production is this performance capture cleanup and modification/adjustment.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The stunning visuals in "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022) and Pixar's "Elemental" (2023) demonstrate how both live-action and animation redefine the limits of visual effects. They capture real actors' performances in live action and build complete worlds from scratch in animation. Animated films craft every visual element digitally.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

In todays dynamic game development world, animation plays a vital role in defining player experiences and shaping game aesthetics. From the pixelated classics of the 80s to todays immersive and realistic graphics, animation has redefined the gaming experience. How did 2D and 3D Animation Evolve in Gaming? So, lets dive in!

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It all begins as a small local studio, where artists collaborate in a single physical location, relying on local storage solutions like network-attached storage (NAS). Efficient movement and synchronization of enormous media assets, including high-definition video and complex Unreal Engine data is important.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The average check size for Early-stage VC-backed gaming studios has fluctuated notably between 2020 and 2024. Ex-Riot studios received some of the highest checks, peaking at $15.8m Ex-ATVI studios saw a similar rise, reaching $10.7m 1 tech company: a cloud with a modular architecture, Vital Game Studios.

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Game Designing

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A 3D animation rigger is a member of a visual effects team who helps to prepare 3D assets for animation. If you are looking to start a career in the field of digital media or 3D animation, becoming a 3D animation rigger may be a good choice for you. What is a 3D Animation Rigger?

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you’re of a certain age, there’s a good chance you grew up with a lot of classic cartoons, but you may have noticed that animated films these days just don’t look the same as they used to. You could chalk this up to nostalgia, but it also comes down to the classic techniques in animation that simply aren’t used anymore in commercial films.

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Animation is the art of breathing life into the inanimate for films, games, and advertising. The career possibilities in animation are growing each year as new techniques, processes, and genres emerge. In this article, we’re going to look at six types of animation: Traditional Animation. 2D Animation. 3D Animation.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2023

Over time the entertainment business has grown to become more than just a useful complementary asset and will account for over 60 percent of revenue by 2026 according to some estimates. Crunchyroll Beyond its gaming assets, Sony has managed to establish a strong presence in other growing content categories as well.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The indie studio was founded in 2022 by Kostia Liakhov , Game Director and Head of Art, and Samantha (Sam) Cable , Game Director and Head of Narrative. For the past eight years, they’ve worked together as an art director and writer duo in advertising, film, and animation.

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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. . Below are 10 reliable outsourcing studios that you’ll find extremely helpful: 1. your partners will take care of everything.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Dylan Tredrea is a product & publishing consultant with over 12 years of experience in mobile free to play games at studios such as Disney, Rovio, Zeptolab, & CrazyLabs. The initial results are sufficient to deconstruct the games product positioning and how the top 4x studio has decided to bet big on drama.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

If the character needs to animate differently than everyone else (i.e. If the cutscene needs new animations we need to bring on an animator to spend time building the new animations needed for the cutscene. Adding in two new animations (e.g. Adding in two new animations (e.g. And so on and so forth.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Studio owner and Lead Developer Max Hermann originally developed the idea for the game in the time when he was still a computer science student and active in the RimWorld modding scene. For every animal we design, we try to come up with both a unique look and role in the game for it.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

Scene from the 3D animation Finding Nemo before and after its been lit and rendered by a 3D lighting artist (Image: Pixar). The skills of a 3D lighting artist can be applied in video games, visualization , film and television, animations, and virtual production. the amount of sunlight, moonlight, cloud cover, etc.)

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CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

3D modelers apply many processes to improve the look and usability of their assets when creating the characters, props, and sets that feature in your favorite video games and films. Not only does LOD support faster rendering, it does so in a way that doesn't negatively impact the visual quality of an asset.

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Nvidia

JULY 22, 2021

Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools. Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. Look for companies that offer full-cycle game development services, that cover everything from art, animation, VR/AR/XR-based development, right up to game testing. Is it well-defined?

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 11, 2023

His journey took an exciting turn when he landed a full sponsorship from the French Embassy in Kenya to visit Rubika, a leading school for Video Games, 2D/3D Animation, and Design in France. Beyond his role at ADMI, he passionately nurtures ChezaCheza , his game development studio. Everything always adds up when you look backwards.

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Filmustage

MARCH 29, 2023

Rotoscoping: In this technique, artists trace over live-action footage to produce animation or isolate elements for compositing. Simulations: Computer-generated animations that emulate real-world occurrences, such as fluid dynamics, particle systems, and cloth simulations.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Once the production began, I had more drive to assemble the scene using the foliage tool and Megascans assets. Earlier on in my project, I didn’t think of adding any characters because I was not confident about getting both environment work and character animation finished within the limited time I had. Adding Metahumans.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 10, 2025

VFX studios use specialized software and animation techniques from early planning to final rendering. Pre-vis artists use specialized software to develop rough 3D animations. These animations help directors see camera movements, timing, and scene composition.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 25, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Unreal and Unity Humble Bundles There are not one but two game development Humble Bundles on right now, the Unreal Apocalypse Essentials Reloaded and the Unity based Fantasy Realms Bundle by Dragonsan Studios.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Moreover, objects that are further animated (such as characters) maintain their own strict set of topology requirements for the deformation to work efficiently. Most game engines also require multiple levels of asset detailing, which requires the use of multiple assets and leads to additional production and running costs.

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CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The end results, known as renders, are photo-real content that, depending on their intended audience and medium, can be viewed in either 2D (still images) or 3D (walkthrough animations and virtual tours). Modeling, texturing, and lighting additional assets (furniture, props, decor, etc.) using 3D software.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

” He later took his experiences and created HaZimation , a production company involved in a wide range of storytelling formats, including animated films, episodic series, and video games. UEFN, however, opens doors for creators to build original worlds and content, using existing Unreal assets but with some restrictions.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

They call themselves Bonte Avond , ‘a game studio of 4 musicians who make bizarre, funny and heartfelt games’. The name of their studio is based on a typically Dutch custom. It was a lot of work to fix this since we already made so many assets. Shadow drop The game was released simultaneously on PC and Switch. “We

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

A single shot or asset will often travel through numerous artists and multiple departments before being finalized. As an asset takes shape, it must be presented in a turntable so its look can be properly inspected and approved or given notes by relevant supervisors or clients. So, where do you fit into the production pipeline?

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iXie gaming

APRIL 24, 2023

Animation : This involves bringing 3D characters or objects to life by adding movement and motion. Lighting : Once the models are animated, the next stage is lighting. The Role of the 3D Game Artist A 3D game artist is a specialist in charge of producing 3D game assets using programs like Autodesk Maya, Blender, or 3ds Max.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Also, upgrade Android Studio to 2022.2.1. While for others, we will support Play Games on PC starting from version 3.8, you only need to select the x86 architecture and the InputSDK option when building for Android to meet the platform requirements of Google Play Games on PC. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Sovereign Moon Studios is dedicated to helping game enthusiasts bring their creative visions to life by teaching them how to make a video game from scratch without having to know how to code or draw. . This is the dock that lists your active scenes assets. Read the Full Tutorial ? Notice here we have the scene dock.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2015

Vulkan will run in so many platforms that even the idea of using DirectX in the future is starting to look unfamiliar for large studios. Current work is already underway and showing nice progress: New animation editor. New website, documentation and asset DB. It will also work on any modern mobile devices, iOS and Android.

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Moonmana

JULY 11, 2022

Creating custom game assets is believed to be the most important and time-consuming stage in game development. As for Moonmana, providing professional outsourcing services in game development for more than 14 years, we specialize in 3D art, 2D art, animation, engineering, porting, DevOps, LiveOps, QA. . mid poly PBR metahuman .

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Here you'll get a front-row seat to the exciting development process for indie game Kristala, the inaugural title from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—an indie games studio based in Central PA, USA. 3D Asset Design. Ready to take a break from the mundane and dive head-first into the magic of Kristala?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2024

Drawing and writing comics, editing podcasts, animated shorts. It makes asset creation and implementation go really smoothly.” I don’t have any grand ambitions of running a studio and working on larger scale games. All built skills useful in game development! That said, I can’t take all of the credit.

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