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

iXie gaming

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. What was once a domain dominated by pre-rendered graphics and traditional artistry has now shifted toward real-time rendering, highly stylized visuals, and experimental aesthetics.

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How 3D Modeling and Animation Transform Your Game’s Visuals?

Big Games

Real-time rendering limits High-definition visuals can put a load on hardware, leading to frame drops during gameplay. How 3D Modeling and Animation Work Together to Elevate Game Graphics? Particles and lighting create depth Visual effects like smoke, sparks, and lighting transitions add atmosphere and cinematic flair.

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The Art of 2.5D: How It’s Redefining Game Design 

iXie gaming

In an industry constantly pushing the boundaries of graphical fidelity, the charm of handcrafted visuals remains timeless. continues to evolve, leveraging AI, modern rendering techniques, and cutting-edge game engines to push the boundaries of game design. While 3D dominates modern game development, 2.5D merges the best of both worlds.

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Filmmaking in Unreal Engine — how Hanny created her arthouse cinematic

CG Spectrum

Hanny shares her visually stunning final project with us, a short cinematic called Naima , detailing how she created her scenes in Unreal Engine, where she drew her inspiration from, and how the technical and creative support of her industry expert mentors allowed her to bring her vision to fruition. So, I signed up! Lighting the scene.

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

Nvidia

Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. Path tracing and ray tracing are both rendering techniques, but they have key differences.

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

Nvidia

This is a challenging task, even in cinematic rendering, because it is difficult to find all the paths of light that contribute meaningfully to an image. Solving this problem through brute force requires hundreds, sometimes thousands of paths per pixel, but this is far too expensive for real-time rendering.

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On the topic of cutscenes, do you think we will get to the point where fully pre-rendered cutscenes will be phased out entirely? Are there any other advantages to having a cutscene be pre-rendered rather than in engine besides the cutscene being “prettier” than the base graphics?

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I don't think that we'll ever see pre-rendered cutscenes go away permanently. As in-engine rendering improves, AAA games will likely move away from pre-rendered cutscenes but AAA games are far from the only games that use cutscenes and have engines that can render high quality cinematic visuals (e.g.