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

iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

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. Game art has undergone a seismic transformation over the past decade, driven by technological advancements, evolving player expectations, and a rapidly growing industry.

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

Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. By 2018, this level of performance was achievable in real-time, at 45 frames per second, enabling applications like video games to take a massive leap in graphical quality.

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Five Unique Real-Time Rendering Tips from NVIDIA Experts

Nvidia

AUGUST 19, 2022

We recently kicked off our NVIDIA Developer Program exclusive series of Connect with Experts Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions featuring NVIDIA experts and Ray Tracing Gems editors Eric Haines, Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, and Ingo Wald. Do ray tracing and deep learning overlap? Eric: Yes, in many ways. This works today.

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GTC 21: Top 5 Game Development Technical Sessions

Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Check out our top sessions below for those working in the gaming industry: Ray Tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 Learn how ray tracing was used to create the visuals in the game, and how the developers at CD Projekt RED used extensive ray tracing techniques to bring the bustling Night City to life.

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Top Game Development Sessions at NVIDIA GTC

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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NVIDIA at GDC 2021: RTX and AI Sees New Platforms, New Development Tools, New Updates, and a New SDK

Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Now, NVIDIA ray tracing and AI are making their premiere on Arm and Linux systems.

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Shaping the Future of Graphics with NVIDIA Technologies in Unreal Engine 5

Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, creators can deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds.

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Accelerating Ultra-Realistic Game Development with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing

Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Named the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, these are the world’s most advanced graphics. Named the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, these are the world’s most advanced graphics cards. A revolution in neural graphics NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) 3 introduces an all-new neural graphics technology.

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NVIDIA Research: Learning and Rendering Dynamic Global Illumination with One Tiny Neural Network in Real-Time

Nvidia

JUNE 22, 2021

Before NVIDIA RTX introduced real-time ray tracing to games, global illumination in games was largely static. Combined with NVIDIA’s state-of-the-art direct lighting algorithm, ReSTIR , Neural Radiance Caching can improve rendering efficiency of global illumination by up to a factor of 100—two orders of magnitude.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

This laid out a vision of a new era of computer graphics for video games that featured photorealistic, ray-traced lighting, AI-powered effects and complex worlds with massive amounts of geometry and high-resolution textures.

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Uplifting Optimizations, Debugging, and Performance Tuning with NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools

Nvidia

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Likewise, for graphics development, it is vital that you feel empowered to handle any bug fix or optimization need that could arise. Developer tools grant visibility to hardware-level processes and expose the computing that drives graphics on the screen. The same can be said for graphics development.

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How Generative AI is Changing the Gaming Landscape

iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For instance, they assist in generating game concepts, gameplay mechanics, and art assets. Visual Enhancements AI-driven upscaling, ray-tracing, and denoising techniques can improve the visual quality of games. But how can generative AI help in-game conceptualization and design? Also, it can inspire creative game ideas.

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Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Have you ever played a game with amazing graphics, but something just didn’t feel right? Example: Soft light from a computer screen) There are two main methods to calculate lighting quality: Ray Tracing. Plan for lighting early, from concept art to level design. Look to photography, film, and art for inspiration.

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Explore and Test Experimental Models for DLSS Research

Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It gives you the performance headroom to maximize ray tracing settings and increase output resolution. Your early input is important to helping us push the state of the art in AI graphics technology. NVIDIA DLSS is a deep learning neural network that boosts frame rates and generates beautiful, sharp images for your games.

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

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

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Five Unique Real-Time Rendering Tips from NVIDIA Experts

GTC 21: Top 5 Game Development Technical Sessions

Top Game Development Sessions at NVIDIA GTC

NVIDIA at GDC 2021: RTX and AI Sees New Platforms, New Development Tools, New Updates, and a New SDK

Shaping the Future of Graphics with NVIDIA Technologies in Unreal Engine 5

Accelerating Ultra-Realistic Game Development with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing

NVIDIA Research: Learning and Rendering Dynamic Global Illumination with One Tiny Neural Network in Real-Time

NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Uplifting Optimizations, Debugging, and Performance Tuning with NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools

How Generative AI is Changing the Gaming Landscape

Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

Explore and Test Experimental Models for DLSS Research

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