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

iXie gaming

Continuous Content Updates: Players expect frequent refreshes in the form of character skins, props, and new environments. Art direction, lighting, and animations must remain uniform, even as new artists or external studios contribute to asset creation. Differences in lighting and animation quality across updates.

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Unity Games That Last: How Testing, Art, and LiveOps Drive Revenue and Retention 

iXie gaming

Platform-specific glitches, animation inconsistencies, and performance instability often surface only through comprehensive device and network testing. QA as a Trust Mechanism Players expect frictionless experiences. It is an operational asset that protects both player experience and studio reputation. QA is not just about fixing code.

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Feral Cat Den is pushing the audio-visual boundaries of games with Nirvana Noir

PreMortem.Games

They created interactive installations, motion graphics animations, experiential web pages, mobile apps, and lots of other creative projects. We seek to build long-form interactive storytelling that features the tactile interactions and transition heavy animation that we’re familiar with.

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Top 6 types of animation used in film, games, and advertising

CG Spectrum

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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Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

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The game artist develops the visual components of the game, which involve the characters, props, background, environment, and other visual elements. Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. Who is a Game Artist?

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VFX Breakdown in Animation vs. Live-Action: Key Differences

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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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How to become a 3D visualization artist | Architecture visualization

CG Spectrum

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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