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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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The Role of Sound Design in Cinematic Storytelling

Filmustage

In the cinematic universe, where visual effects often take center stage, it's easy to overlook the profound influence of audio design. In the following sections, we'll delve deeper into the fascinating realm of cinematic audio, exploring the various techniques and innovative trends that elevate films to new sonic heights.

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

iXie gaming

A simple texture change or model update can impact gameplay mechanics, UI design, and monetization strategies. AI-driven tools to speed up repetitive tasks like UV mapping and texture generation. Polygon count and texture optimization to maintain performance. Automate texture creation and material variations.

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Is there much of a difference between a digital media degree and a game design degree when it comes to applying for jobs within the gaming sector? Or is it dependent on the role you are applying for?

Ask a Game Dev

We're ultimately looking for candidates who can do the work that the job entails - cinematic designer, gameplay programmer, texture artist, associate producer, QA engineer, and so on. "BA in Game Design" ticks a box that "BA in Digital Media" likely won't, though the kind of degree is only one of many keywords we're looking for.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Additionally, the modern backend can implement rendering methods , such as forward clustered, mobile, and more in the future (such as deferred clustered, cinematic, etc.). The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default.

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Godot gets a brand new animation editor (with cinematic support)

Mircosoft Game Dev

Changing sprite textures, colors, animation frames, calling functions, playing animations in other animation players, playing sounds, etc. With the new trend of cinematic tools and timelines coming recently to the big engines, this workflow (which was already possible) was cleaned up and made much easier and visual.

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Summer 2025 Game Development Student Internship Roundup, Part 2

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Associate Development Manager Co-op/Internship - Summer 2025 (Sports FC QV) Game Product Manager Intern (Summer 2025) Music Intern EA Sports FC Franchise Activation Intern Associate Character Artist Intern Client Engineer Intern Visual Effects Co-Op Associate Environment Artist Co-Op (Summer 2025) Game Design Intern (Summer 2025) Game Design Co-Op (..)

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