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

iXie gaming

How do top game studios maintain a constant flow of high-quality assets without bottlenecks? With the right strategies, game studios can accelerate asset creation, streamline workflows, and maintain artistic consistency, ensuring their live-service games remain visually compelling and player-focused. Key solutions: (i).

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CGS 3D modeling students build incredible sets, characters, and props

CG Spectrum

3D modelers create the digital building blocks for modern storytelling and design. Whether their work is hyper-realistic or uniquely stylized, CG Spectrum's 3D modeling students are proving they have what it takes to become the next storytellers and designers, helping to build worlds and products that entertain and delight their audience.

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CGS Dept. Head of VFX enters KitBash3D's Mission to Minerva Challenge

CG Spectrum

Four steps to take before you start building to ensure you're set up for success. Work within the supplied KitBash3D Mission to Minerva Houdini file — all assets and associated materials are already loaded and ready to use. Organize assets into groups (e.g., big, small, vehicles, props, etc.). Selecting a base terrain.

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What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

CG Spectrum

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. Not only does LOD support faster rendering, it does so in a way that doesn't negatively impact the visual quality of an asset.

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So how much $ (in general) does it cost to produce a fully animated/rigged, fully voiced 1-3 minute cutscene in a game that’s in ongoing development (something like SWTOR, where they have a lot of prebuilt assets)? Like just a general low range and high range? I’m seeing a lot of people complaining about prioritizing content they want, and don’t know enough about the behind the scenes costs to properly communicate they’re being unrealistic with their complaints.

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If the cutscene needs new animations we need to bring on an animator to spend time building the new animations needed for the cutscene. The bulk discounts only really work if the things we're paying for can be reused multiple times though - the more specific an asset is (e.g. needs its own rig), that's time from a rigger to create.

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How to become a 3D Lighting Artist

CG Spectrum

Lighting helps integrate various 3D elements (effects, props, characters, etc.) One of the benefits is that it's also used by other 3D artists such as modelers and animators, making the sharing of files and assets more streamlined. sun/moonlight, overhead lights in a building, etc.).

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The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

Radiator Blog

The individual assets seem nice, but together they sort of clash -- a random junk prop will have the 4k photogrammetry HDR treatment, overwhelming the nearby gameplay pickup that you're actually supposed to notice. Comparatively, the original Skyrim mod felt like more of a city with more buildings, more organization, more density.

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