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?

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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.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Unity has a rich and sophisticated animation system for the game development process , also referred to as ‘ Mecanim ’. It is a powerful tool for game developers to create dynamic, true-to-life animations for characters, objects, and environments in their games.

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Unity Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Ziva Real-Time helps character artists create high-quality real-time character performances for games, animation, and film by accelerating the training of character rigs. Characters and creatures trained using this RT3D tool express rich deformations and biomechanics whilst conforming to multiple memory budgets.

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Animation has come a long way since ancient Greek pottery drawings. Animation is the art of bringing 2D drawings or 3D models to life. Learn more about this fun and expressive art form and how to get started as a digital animator! Learn more about this fun and expressive art form and how to get started as a digital animator!

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

For years, video game characters moved awkwardly, like stiff cardboard figures. Even as game graphics became beautiful 3D scenes, the animations didn’t match up. It records real actors’ movements and turns them into digital data, making game characters move more realistically. Animation Integration.

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Yotes Games

APRIL 13, 2023

It took about a month and a half, but ALL the pony sprite pieces have finally been drawn and as of right now I can begin the frame-by-frame animation process! Should be done and in-game by April's end (but given how that estimate's measured in gamedev time, we'll see how that goes ?).

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DameDev.tv

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As an Animation & Art Director, I'm always looking for better ways to help my team complete their job faster, with less stress.  In Getting Everyone on the Same Page One of the major problems of working with a team of animators, is trying to get everyone to understand what you and the designers want.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Head of VFX Daniel Hourigan ( Aquaman , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Terminator: Dark Fate ) takes us through how he built his KitBash3D Mission to Minerva settlement in Houdini, detailing key steps from his recent informative livestreams, including a great workaround for creating a fast rendering volumetric glow. CG Spectrum's Dept.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The cost of any content in game dev is directly proportional to how much new stuff needs to be created for that content. In an ongoing game like SWTOR, element numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 were already built long ago and already exist. If the character needs to animate differently than everyone else (i.e. And so on and so forth.

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Moonmana

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What is Animation? Animation occupies an essential place in the video game development industry. Everyone has heard this term but does everyone know precisely what animation is? . In simple terms, animation means rapidly displaying still images in sequence to create the illusion of movement. What is 2D Animation?

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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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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game development is a collaborative process that involves various people with specialized skills. The two most critical roles in this process are game artists and designers. Since most of us are unaware of the process of creating a game, we usually confuse game design and game art as being the same.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. So in April 2022, I quit my job to work on making animated short films full-time. Control rigs for the crew and X-Wing models. Building Control Rigs for a crew member.

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Game From Scratch

JULY 27, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Game Dev’s Guide to Fantasy Creatures Assets Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Game Dev’s Guide to Fantasy Creatures assets bundle. This is an interesting new approach to bundles as it consists of only a single $15 dollar tier.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

There are many reasons why people pursue a career in film and video games—it’s a creative, dynamic, challenging, and rewarding industry that gives artists opportunities to work on world-class projects while earning a regular income. How would you like to contribute, creatively and technically, to a film or game?

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2024

A single purchasable asset is never atomic - the purchased item is comprised of many parts like the 3D model, the diffuse textures, normal map, occlusion map, any other materials, rigging, animations, shaders, and so on. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2024

The importance of the narrative depends primarily on how important the narrative is to the game. For a game like Overwatch, where the core gameplay is team pvp, the narrative is a lot less important and things like relationships are generally prioritized. If we can always make changes forever, we'll never ship the game.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of the hardest things to get correct in a game is the placement of a character's hands. In this article, I will use Inverse Kinematics (IK) to give that extra polish to my game when ledge grabbing. This concept can be used to add that extra polish to any animation that requires the correct placement of hands or feet.

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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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iXie gaming

APRIL 24, 2023

The creation of three-dimensional objects, characters, and locations for use in video games is a challenging process known as 3D game art production. It combines art and technology, resulting in visually stunning and immersive game worlds that captivate players.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Newbies and developers have always found it difficult in building tools for game development without using programming. However, there are now several online game production tools that enable game developers to rapidly and easily build games. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are many aspects to consider when building a game. Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Use Unity Timeline to create cinematic content, game-play sequences, audio sequences, and complex particle effects. .

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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. One important technique to master, particularly for video games, is level of detail (LOD). What is level of detail (LOD)?

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, the tradeoff is that the game would look like an upscaled version of a Switch game on the higher-end platforms. The source assets like animation rigging and motions, textures, character and environment models, and so on would be built at a lower fidelity. Take a look at that game and you'll see what I mean.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 15, 2022

CG Spectrum graduate Hanny Lu talks about her experience studying Unreal Connectors: Virtual Production , a 12-week micro-credentialing program created in partnership with Epic Games. Adding Metahumans turned out to be a rewarding learning curve as I was not familiar with the animation workflow in Unreal Engine. Adding Metahumans.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Game development is a complex process that involves a lot of different specialists and consists of a number of steps and smaller tasks. . To develop a high-quality and competitive game, you should carefully execute every stage, step by step. This is what players first pay attention to, comparing your game with others.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 5, 2020

As you know, our mantra here at ACS Games has always been one of inclusivity, togetherness, acceptance, and love. Will also removed the jumping ability from the game and fixed a few bugs regarding the targeting of spells—like the Earthquake spell and the Impaler's special ability. in their inventory.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 14, 2021

Welcome back to the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, where you'll get a front-row seat to the development process for the inaugural title from the leading ladies at Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-owned indie games studio based in Central PA, USA. The dynamic mesh will allow the door to be animated and properly opened and closed.

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Nvidia

APRIL 12, 2021

Streamline Digital Human Creation and Animation in NVIDIA Omniverse with Reallusion's New Character Creator Connector Reallusion released Character Creator 3. Character Creator Headshot, SkinGen and Smart Hair all allow for detailed character definition from head to toe.

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Filmustage

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In his groundbreaking film "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) , Méliès used stop-motion animation, miniatures, and practical effects to create fantastical scenes. One of the prominent figures of this era was Ray Harryhausen , a stop-motion animator known for his meticulous craftsmanship. The Bullet Time rig from "The Matrix".

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

OCTOBER 8, 2020

We're heading into spooky season, and there's no better way to celebrate an eerie action-adventure game than diving into the newest issue of the Kristala game dev blog. We can't wait to exhibit the game alongside so many other talented independent creators, especially because IWOCon isn't like regular cons.it's a cool con.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

A solid game outsourcing partnership is reason enough to see your project as 50% complete. In a competitive game, players’ initial focus is on the visual component. Working with an established game art outsourcing firm with a solid track record alleviates any worry about deadlines or allocating internal resources.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 14, 2020

Will then fixed another bug related to the game's poison system, which you can see illustrated in the log below. Keep an eye out for these beautiful buds in the Kristala game. What do you think these might be used for in the game? While Joe handled the Nasahara, Tiffany spent some time addressing the overall game environment.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

In a few months, we'll be kicking off our very own Patreon where you'll be able to get even more detailed and comprehensive dev blogs that include first looks at new models, inside access to previously unrevealed characters and NPCs, and a glimpse into how our programmers, artists, modelers, and animators do their thang.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Our main goal was to create an easy to pick, approachable couch multiplayer game for up to four players. Graphic simplicity was dictated by the general idea of the game’s casualty. We’ve decided to set our game in a low-poly setting for the sake of readability. That allows us to reduce the size of the game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 23, 2017

In game engines, for performance, vertices have, instead, a list of bones they are affected by and how much. This is done usually by two attributes in the vertex array "bone indices" and "bone weights" Attributes are limited to vectors of four (vec4) maximum and no game engine that I know crosses this limit.

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