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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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For example, one of the things DOTS handled really well was rendering large amounts of entities. Without it, rendering the 800.000 tiles that compromise the game map became problematic, so the team had to spend a week on optimizing that. 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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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Animation has boomed in recent years and it’s now present in nearly every film or television show. The increase in popularity is caused by animation’s ability to storytell and hold an audience’s attention. Although, crafting animations isn’t a cakewalk by any means. Why would a cloud infrastructure like AWS help?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). Fix a handful of regressions from some of the bigger input and animation changes merged for beta 15. The illustration picture for this article is from Halls of Torment , a roguelite action RPG with retro late-90s pre-rendered 2D graphics.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

SDK Updates For Game Developers and Digital Artists GTC is a great opportunity to get hands-on with NVIDIA’s latest graphics technologies. SDK Updates For Game Developers and Digital Artists GTC is a great opportunity to get hands-on with NVIDIA’s latest graphics technologies. RTXDI makes this possible while rendering in real time.

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Game Designing

JULY 23, 2023

Animation is not just about quirky or cartoonish images; it’s also about conveying a message, story, or narrative. Animation is a creative and effective way to tell a story, so much so that the global animation industry was worth $395 billion in 2022 according to a Yahoo! What Is an Animation Portfolio? Finance report.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Terminology in the world of animation and video editing can stop you in your tracks. What exactly are they, and why are they so important to animators and video editors? What exactly are they, and why are they so important to animators and video editors? What Is Keyframe Animation? Every video has a keyframe.

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Nvidia

MAY 3, 2023

NVIDIA will present 19 research papers at SIGGRAPH, the year’s most important computer graphics conference. NVIDIA will present 19 research papers at SIGGRAPH, the year’s most important computer graphics conference.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I don't think that we'll ever see pre-rendered cutscenes go away permanently. As in-engine rendering improves, AAA games will likely move away from pre-rendered cutscenes but AAA games are far from the only games that use cutscenes and have engines that can render high quality cinematic visuals (e.g.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 7, 2023

In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework, In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. Rendered with Chaos V-Ray.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest's "godot-3d-mannequin" project and the ground texture is from Kenney's "Prototype Textures" bundle. What is happening here is that the positions are being downcast into single-precision floats before being sent to the GPU for rendering.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 3, 2024

One of my favorites was detecting animated background characters on screen, skipping 80% of their animation updates, and instead interpolating between the animation frames during the missing frame updates. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2024

The best optimization is often not to render anything at all. If the hardware doesn't have to render and animate a thing, it saves a lot of processing time. We do this by not rendering models that the player can't see (e.g. and also by not rendering the parts of the model that the player can't see (e.g.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

However, with the ever-increasing visual fidelity of their rendering engines, game engines have grown in popularity for situations that demand high-end visuals. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. Recording procedurally generated animations or motion design.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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 turned out to be a rewarding learning curve as I was not familiar with the animation workflow in Unreal Engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

However, with the ever-increasing visual fidelity of their rendering engines, game engines have grown in popularity for situations that demand high-end visuals. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. Recording procedurally generated animations or motion design.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 19, 2024

This technology allows game artists and developers to create high-quality and interactive 3D experiences using real-time rendering. In fact, the 3D animation art styles are translated to visually stunning and captivating worlds, adding fun to interactive entertainment experiences. Therefore, they don’t need to pre-render images.

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The latest NVIDIA breakthroughs in graphics are elevating workflows in game development, and you can experience it all at NVIDIA GTC, which starts November. The latest NVIDIA breakthroughs in graphics are elevating workflows in game development, and you can experience it all at NVIDIA GTC , which starts November 8.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This is consistent with how most image file formats store pixel data, and with how most graphics APIs work (including DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, but not OpenGL). By dynamically changing this value, a simple animation effect can be achieved. Due to the difference from OpenGL (and frameworks based on it). x,waveFactor.y-uv0.y);

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest’s “godot-3d-mannequin” project and the ground texture is from Kenney’s “Prototype Textures” bundle. What is happening here is that the positions are being downcast into single-precision floats before being sent to the GPU for rendering.

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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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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For example, one of the things DOTS handled really well was rendering large amounts of entities. Without it, rendering the 800.000 tiles that compromise the game map became problematic, so the team had to spend a week on optimizing that. 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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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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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Cocos

APRIL 13, 2023

The latest release includes some of the most highly anticipated features, such as Custom Render Pipeline , Light Probe , Reflection Probe and LOD. By utilizing these powerful features, the graphics of your games will become more realistic. Kylin: Do you use the Custom Render Pipeline that is available with Cocos Creator v3.7?

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Spine Spine is the best tool for 2D skeletal animation. It has a flexible system that uses bones to create smooth and expressive animations, which can be easily reused and customized. DragonBones DragonBones is a strong tool for 2D skeletal animation, focusing on making the work process easy and quick.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

3D architectural visualization gives the viewer a graphical representation of the object, assets, and the environment from different sides and angles allowing them to evaluate in detail all the parts of interest and the entire future structure, as opposed to 2D drawings and sketches. It adds that extra level of photorealism to your projects.

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Jesper Juul

MAY 19, 2021

A “mindbogglingly colorful” realtime & animated fractal; a small side project almost entirely unrelated to what I think is my career. This new version came about when I saw that a modern computer – or phone – can easily render a fractal like this in real time using the graphics card. The History of Lyapunovia.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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. The Universal Render Pipeline (URP) is a prebuilt Scriptable Render Pipeline, made by Unity. Text Animator for Unity by Febucci Creations. Universal RP.

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Grumpy Gamer

OCTOBER 17, 2004

The game will be fully animated and include wall-to-wall original music and full voice. We might want to go with a pre-rendered 3D look rather then the traditional 2D animation found in a lot of 2D adventure games. With all the animation, voice, music, graft, etc, we could approach 1GB. Bandwidth costs money.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Features and Tools Graphics and Rendering Capabilities Graphics and Rendering Capabilities are essential in game design software because of its graphics and rendering capabilities. The visual aspects of the game significantly impact player engagement and enjoyment.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It is a markup language that supports 2D and 3D graphics. In-browser graphics are created using Canvas. There is an in-built asset loader that enables animation sprite loading, sprite sheets, and many other features that are useful for creating functional games. in earlier browsers, rendering will be handled by Canvas.

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Cocos

AUGUST 29, 2024

I’m specifically coping with the following difficulties: Frame rate decreases: I’m seeing noticeable frame rate drops when I add more sprites and animations, particularly on devices with lesser specs. What methods are there for maximising the performance of sprite animation and rendering? Thank you in advance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

The progress of last month was largely defined by stabilizing the 3D renderer with many smaller fixes, but work on the PRB side of things has begun and the GDNative system also saw some quality-of-life changes again, with improvements to the GDNativeLibrary resource as well as an API to provide safe type-casting in NativeScript.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

They provide comprehensive art outsourcing services, which include character/environment art, level design, in-game animations, 3D modeling, 2D concept art, and more. Specialties: – Game Development, Motion Capture, Art Outsourcing, 3D Animation, 2D Animation, VR, Concept Art, and Co-Development. Bosi Art Studio.

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Game Designing

JULY 30, 2023

What You Should Know About Special Effects Schools Most people who work in special effects have bachelor’s degrees in computer graphics, visual effects, or art, depending on which SFX branch they are interested in. Selection of programs offered: VFX 3D Animation Game Cinematic Motion Graphic Content Production and Character Design 3.

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