Cocos

MARCH 25, 2024

I work in cocos on an almost daily basis for my Job and you guys are really killing it with speed and quality of it’s development! Speaking of development… does anybody know or have an idea of when Cocos will be able to support spine versions 4.1 Particularly in the animation timeline tool?

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CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It’s an in-demand job where you play a vital role in the pre-production process as a script is visualized and developed. These frames are sometimes left as static images or turned into a simple animation sequence called an animatic. Brief animators or filmmakers on a scene. A good understanding of the 12 principles of animation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2019

When doing character animations, specially characters with hundreds of thousands of animation frames (like Cuphead ), using an atlas will not give any increase in performance (as only one frame is drawn at the same time). Region takes up more space, but allows drawing only parts of the image, clipping it, etc. Optimizing Memory.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You may have seen some 2D or 3D animated movies and video games that look like they were hand-drawn or have a cartoon-like style. Usually, Japanese anime films and video games feature this distinct look. This type or technique of animation is known as cel-shading animation. Some also refer to it as toon shading.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 11, 2023

It gets worse with animations, too. The animation skeleton doesn’t change when you make adjustments to the body, so significant changes to the mesh (bulky armor, oversized body parts, etc.) can cause self-clipping and other graphical weirdness.

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Moonmana

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today we’ll try to figure out the main peculiarities, styles, and differences of 2D art in game development. Actually, 2D game art is not just alive but blooming in the game development industry. As you may guess from the name, 2D animation relates to 2-dimensional game art based on flat shapes and objects. What is 2D Art?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

x is that, several times, sprites are separated in many nodes in order to be animated or assembled. 2D Masking / Clipping. branch, this will be doable in a much easier way, thanks to the "clip children" property in the visibility section. This has been added for 4.0 thanks to the new DirectionalLight2D node.

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Logic Simplified

JUNE 11, 2024

Machine learning techniques are also being harnessed for character animations, thus enabling lifelike movements and expressions. Game app developers at leading game development companies, like Logic Simplified, are excitedly integrating AI into gaming, to deliver immersive, engaging, and personalized experiences for players.

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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. We're so glad you're here. If this is your first time joining us, welcome to the family! and they're not wrong.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). link] Rigging / Animation. Kristala at Play NYC 2021.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

These editors are also more popular among developers and therefore many want to switch to them for their usability. Open it inside VS Code and first install required dependencies using the npm install command; after that, running it will simply open the client in the Extension Development Environment. What's the project? GSoC journey.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

We're officially in the final development crunch for the vertical slice demo of Kristala! After fiddling around and running some tests, Will was able to make it so that the character can effectively roll through various environmental objects - like the barrels shown in the clip below - to destroy them. Animation / Rigging / Production.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Regardless of how many hours your game development team spends polishing the video game, some technical glitches are bound to occur. Usually, they occur due to issues within the code or faulty animation controls. As a result, you must manage your game’s code during development and even after launching it.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

“Throughout the game, there were issues with assets clipping into each other, models popping in and out, and huge frame rate drops,” Stanley said. “Throughout the game, there were issues with assets clipping into each other, models popping in and out, and huge frame rate drops,” Stanley said.

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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. Game Production / Rigging / Animation. We also provided some clips that capture the new run and flip animations themselves.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From automated clipping to smart video creation, we'll explore how these technological innovations are helping studios save millions while maintaining their expressive face in modern filmmaking. Post-production, larger-than-life in scope, brings forth modeling, animation, and compositing. Experience the Future of VFX with Filmustage!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2020

IK can be used to adjust already made animations, add secondary or complementary motion to existing animations, or even to make completely procedurally animated characters. Because the motions that IK creates is completely done in real-time, animations created via IK can be changed at any time. Introduction. Git plugin.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. link] Rigging / Animation. Hello, faithful feline-lovin' friends and fantasy aficionados!

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2025

Animations still play, sound still plays, UI still updates, timers may still tick down, but the game will not respond to any player input. Maybe thats because the world geometry has put them into a perpetually-falling state so they dont have any control, or because theyve somehow clipped into a part of the level that should not be accessible.

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 17, 2004

If you’re an unemployed adventure game developer hobbyist, please contact our fictional company for a fictional job interview. 3) We’re going to focus on the development and product related costs only. There are a lot of other overhead in running a company, even a small developer, we’ll ignore those.

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 18, 2004

If you're an unemployed adventure game developer hobbyist, please contact our fictional company for a fictional job interview. 3) We're going to focus on the development and product related costs only. 3) We're going to focus on the development and product related costs only. Development costs and plan.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 3, 2018

The Sheriff picks up the phone and his animation isn’t aligned correctly. Or Delores stands in the just the right spot and she clips into the desk. Maybe other game developers have amazing game unit tests that are enormous time and money savers. I just don’t know how to realistically unit test this stuff.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

As our 3D Generalist, Shelly has her hands in a bunch of different aspects and areas of development, lending both her texturing and modeling skills to help fill in various holes and gaps within our 3D elements. In the clips below, you can see the Dodge issues in action. Animation / Rigging / Game Production.

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Sheriff picks up the phone and his animation isn't aligned correctly. Or Delores stands in the just the right spot and she clips into the desk. Maybe other game developers have amazing game unit tests that are enormous time and money savers. Or worse, it's not aligned correctly only after he's also open the jail door.

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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. NISARGA CLAN: MYRTUNA CLAN: TANDARA CLAN: KEOZA CLAN: SYKOMANA CLAN: LYUMINA CLAN: Animation / Rigging / Game Production.

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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. Implementing sprint attack animations, changing walk animations, and correcting dash rotation issues.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

We know it's been a miiinute since we've shared some in-depth development updates from Kristala with you, but we're SUPER STOKED for you to see everything we've been working on since the last time we met. GDC is the game industry's premier professional event, championing game developers and the advancement of their craft. Stay tuned!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to our regular jobs and personal lives, we've really been amping up development for Kristala over the past couple weeks (hey, just look at this dev blog issue for proof). Animation / Rigging / Production. To kick things off, Allie worked on implementing some magic-cast animations for our aquatic Gilsanka enemies.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is the place where we break down the development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game currently in development by the talented team at women-owned indie games studios, Astral Clocktower Studios. Refactored blueprints and fixed animation bugs. Welcome back to another exciting issue of the Kristala Dev blog.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

This is a clip of the Heider-Simmel animation. How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox? We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Here you'll get an inside look at the detailed development work done for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, the inaugural title from the team behind Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-lead indie studio based in Central PA, USA. Stay tuned to hear more about the Cathedral and the mysterious attic NPC in future social posts and development blogs!

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Most comic book artists also develop a particular style to make their work stand out from the rest. Many comic book artists study graphic design and animation to help them advance in their careers and create a solid portfolio. As your work evolves and you develop your style, expect to keep updating your portfolio.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

GetView(info.entity, ViewZone.Combatant); var combatant = view.GetComponent<CombatantView>(); var animation = info.value ? We will be grabbing a combatant’s view, and setting either the “Death” or “Idle” animation state based on whether the Entity is dying or not. The game feels far more complete!

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Game Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2021

wej Duj” takes advantage of its animated format to give us two non-human crews in the same way Prodigy will when it airs in the not too distant future. The Sh’vhal ’s shields begin to weaken, but T’Lyn has developed a regenerative shield amplifier that she convinces her captain to use.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

As in Skyrim, my animations are charmingly janky, with penises occasionally clipping through eyes and noses, or even through the back of the skull entirely. Inspired by Craddock's marriage manual, I also commissioned an in-universe game manual from fellow queer game developer Mitch Alexander , who makes fantastic gay sex games too ! (I

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