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Emerging Trends in Game Art: Real-Time Rendering, Stylized Game Art, and Beyond 

iXie gaming

By 2026, the gaming industry is expected to reach $321 billion , with real-time rendering and AI-driven game art playing a pivotal role in its growth. What was once a domain dominated by pre-rendered graphics and traditional artistry has now shifted toward real-time rendering, highly stylized visuals, and experimental aesthetics.

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Filmmaking in Unreal Engine — how Hanny created her arthouse cinematic

CG Spectrum

Hanny shares her visually stunning final project with us, a short cinematic called Naima , detailing how she created her scenes in Unreal Engine, where she drew her inspiration from, and how the technical and creative support of her industry expert mentors allowed her to bring her vision to fruition. So, I signed up! Adding Metahumans.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Godot gets a brand new animation editor (with cinematic support)

Mircosoft Game Dev

The existing animation system in Godot was already one of the most powerful of any game engine, but its age was starting to show (it was written 10 years ago and barely improved). Animation editing was one of the first distinctive Godot features. All is done transparently by simply animating property states. A bit of history.

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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

iXie gaming

Art direction, lighting, and animations must remain uniform, even as new artists or external studios contribute to asset creation. Apex Legends: Respawn Entertainment ensures that character animations and cosmetics remain stylistically cohesive across battle passes and hero releases. Common pitfalls include: (i).

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Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene

Nvidia

Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. Path tracing and ray tracing are both rendering techniques, but they have key differences.

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How to become a 3D Lighting Artist

CG Spectrum

3D lighting involves simulating the behavior of light in a real-world or fantasy situation, including shadows, reflections, highlights, and color, using specialized lighting software and rendering tools. Scene from the 3D animation Finding Nemo before and after its been lit and rendered by a 3D lighting artist (Image: Pixar).

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