iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Game studios today face a growing challenge: delivering visually compelling, platform-agnostic gameplay without sacrificing responsiveness or stretching production timelines. The most successful studios treat that window as non-negotiable. Asset Optimisation That Prevents Late-Stage Rework First impressions matter.

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Nvidia

JULY 22, 2021

Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools. Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

To create these lighting effects, 3D lighters often use some of the following software: Autodesk Maya : Maya is an industry-standard 3D lighting and rendering software employed by some of the biggest VFX, game, and animation studios and allows the execution of large, complex shots. sun/moonlight, overhead lights in a building, etc.).

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

In this crucial stage, the team takes the concepts produced during the pre-production stage and transforms them into source code and different assets. Cinematics: Cinematics are usually an interlude from the game used to inform the player about the mission of the game, goals, hand out clues, character information, maps, etc.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 26, 2023

However, with the quality threshold of animated films matching the one of video game cinematics, he says, the gaming industry’s influence is being acknowledged more than ever. UEFN, however, opens doors for creators to build original worlds and content, using existing Unreal assets but with some restrictions.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Despite these obstacles, the fascination with on-location filming endures, driven by the promise of creating cinematic treasures that resonate with audiences on a visceral level. While elaborate studio sets provide control, authentic locations have an undeniable allure. Nature's Scenic Beauty ? Local Texture and Cultural Nuance ?️

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 4, 2024

Sai now works as a 2D concept artist and digital illustrator at Eitri Studio! Once I completed my course at CGS, I started working at Eitri studio (a game art outsourcing studio in India) as a 2D concept artist and illustrator! It specializes in 2D and 3D art, animation, and cinematics, catering to a global clientele.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 16, 2025

Dive into detailed VFX breakdowns and explore how your favorite cinematic moments come to life. Studios keep their color management as perfectly matched as synchronized swimmers. The best studios craft their breakdowns like master storytellers, leading viewers on a journey from rough sketches to jaw-dropping final shots.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Most studios need compositing in some form, whether it involves the seamless integration of special effects (FX) with environments or VFX shots with computer-generated (CG) characters. They either work as freelancers or get compositor jobs at VFX studios. A few studios also hire junior compositors.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

A single shot or asset will often travel through numerous artists and multiple departments before being finalized. As an asset takes shape, it must be presented in a turntable so its look can be properly inspected and approved or given notes by relevant supervisors or clients. So, where do you fit into the production pipeline?

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Eric has worked for some incredible companies like Disney, Weta Workshop, Marvel, and—the most notable to me—Wizards of the Coasts, the studio responsible for Magic: The Gathering (MTG). The curriculum covered many topics from cinematic storytelling, lighting and color theory, trading card and gaming art to illustrating book covers.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

This extended infrastructure provides a developer platform for studios and publishers to perform their game development virtually, starting with playtesting. Users can experiment with AI-enabled tools and create intuitively in real-time using assets from Squad, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, and Mechwarrior 5.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 29, 2022

How do you advise your studios to approach the soft launch phase from a media perspective? My old colleagues at Pocket Gems would use this functionality all the time to get empirical data on what combination of assets was most effective in driving conversion rates on the Play store listing page.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

By embracing and encouraging gamers’ motivation to collect and to cultivate, the card battling genre has become a proven formula for mobile companies and studios to maximize their revenue. Due to the limitation of the 2D models, showing a different angle of a character requires new art assets instead of a simple angle change in a 3D game.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 22, 2024

Welcome to the unsettling world of Zoochosis by indie game studio Clapperheads. Behind all this madness is an indie studio, but not in the classical sense. Cinematic flair Valentin Shcheking highlights the cinematography and the systemic nature of the game as key features of Zoochosis. This is one of my favorite parts of my job.”

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Welcome to the unsettling world of Zoochosis by indie game studio Clapperheads. Behind all this madness is an indie studio, but not in the classical sense. Cinematic flair Valentin Shcheking highlights the cinematography and the systemic nature of the game as key features of Zoochosis. This is one of my favorite parts of my job.”

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

From indie studios to AAA developers, 2.5D Many developers leverage art production services to create bespoke assets that enhance visual storytelling while maintaining performance efficiency. locks the perspective, allowing developers to craft cinematic, carefully framed environments. merges the best of both worlds.

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Game Designing

JULY 30, 2023

However, it’s a vastly different experience when you go through the course in person with an expert instructor, especially within a professional studio environment. The institution must have an updated studio-like environment with high-tech equipment and modern tools for practical teaching. It also has a Montreal studio.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Customers building Unreal Engine games on AWS Learn how game studios combine advanced 3D game development technology with purpose-built global infrastructure capabilities to build, run, and grow their games. QXR Studios co-founder Graeme Devine noted, “It used to take 100+ person teams five years and $25M to deliver at this level.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Welcome back to the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, where you can get front-row seats to the development process for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, the first title from female-owned-and-operated indie game studio Astral Clocktower Studios. 3D Asset Design. Are you ready to enter the fantasy? Here we go.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Since we last met, things have legit been poppin' off over here. AND NOW WE FINALLY CAN!!!

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The game was developed by Raven, one of the historical CoD mainline studios, and Activision Shanghai, a local team assembled for the project. Ni-Zhan was the local competitor to Crossfire and the first FPS developed by a then unknown internal Studio called TiMi.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2017

Over time, a number of situations are highly likely to arise: Assets are OK, but gameplay sucks. Game is OK, but the realization that assets could be done better happens and re-creating them is demotivating. This is where 99.99% of indie developers and studios make their main and most fatal mistake. Well not really.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This is perhaps because successful assets are very expensive and it is cheaper for an existing 4X publisher to launch and scale new titles rather than to acquire and operate existing games that have already scaled. Access all previous predictions here. 5 Marketing excellence.

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