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

iXie gaming

Real-Time Rendering For decades, game developers relied on pre-rendered cutscenes and static assets to deliver high-fidelity visuals. The advancements in GPUs, ray tracing, and game engines like Unreal Engine 5 and Unitys HDRP (High Definition Render Pipeline) have pushed real-time rendering to the forefront of game art innovation.

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New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Nvidia

Easier ray-tracing integration for games with Kickstart RT In 2018, NVIDIA Turing architecture changed the game with real-time ray tracing. This scene highlights ray tracing, global illumination, ambient occlusion, and ray traced shadows, enabled through KickStart SDK. Unreal Engine 4.27

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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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GTC 21: Top 5 Game Development Technical Sessions

Nvidia

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

Register for free and experience how NVIDIA is powering real-time ray tracing technologies and advanced AI capabilities that help users experience maximum game performance in both physical and virtual environments. Gameplay screenshot from the upcoming title Battlefield 2024.

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Game Development – New Resources from GTC 21

Nvidia

Collaborative Game Development using Omniverse This session is a deep dive on how to leverage Omniverse, using new asset collaboration tools USD and MDL for game development. You’ll learn how to leverage Nucleus for collaboration, AI for asset tagging, and USD and MDL for ground truth content creation and lighting using ray tracing.

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

Nvidia

Featuring third-generation Ray Tracing Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, they accelerate games that take advantage of the latest neural graphics and ray tracing technology. Path tracing takes a physics-based approach to how light moves around a scene.