iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Behind every immersive world lies a meticulously crafted game art pipeline, a process where raw ideas evolve into interactive, polished assets. Game art isnt just about making things look good. Whether its a photorealistic RPG or a stylized indie game, every visual element follows a structured journey from concept to integration.

Concepts

iXie gaming

AUGUST 4, 2025

Gameplay mechanics might spark initial interest, and storylines may build immersion, but it’s iconic characters that truly anchor players to a game. From pixelated indie protagonists to hyper-realistic digital champions, character design has evolved into a strategic pillar that shapes how games are remembered, monetized, and expanded.

Art

Game Developer

APRIL 5, 2024

In collaboration with one of our senior rigging and groom artists, we aim to demystify this craft and provide in-depth insights into the process of rigging characters for games.

Rigging

PreMortem.Games

APRIL 13, 2023

The use of AI in game development has the potential to revolutionize the way games are designed and created. Based on the designer’s vision and in tune with the game’s visual style the platform generates a base character. This base character comes fully rigged and can be completely edited by the developer.

AI

Game From Scratch

JANUARY 25, 2023

GameFromScratch.com AccuRIG — Auto Rigging Tool from Reallusion It would appear that Mixamo has a new competitor in the auto-rigging game, accuRIG from Reallusion (makers of Character Creator and iClone).

Rigging

GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 14, 2024

Game development is no longer just a one-man show – or even a one-studio spectacle. The seismic size of games these days means that the crafting of fantastical, virtual realms is easily a multi-team endeavour. Fortunately, developers can turn to partners, such as external developers , to realise their most ambitious projects.

Rigging

Game Designing

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The role combines both artistic and technical skills into a single job that is crucial for productions in film, television, video game development, and more. And, we will provide you with some tips you need to begin your journey getting started in 3D animation rigging. What is a 3D Animation Rigger?

Rigging

GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 22, 2024

Still Wakes The Deep isn't your typical first-person horror game. There's no combat, it's set on an oil rig that (quite literally) becomes a living, breathing entity, and all the player can do is traverse this ever-changing landscape, avoid a growing number of possessed crewmates and hide.

Rigging

Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Quaternius Free 3D Assets When it comes to free game development assets we live in bountiful times, as todays featured site Quaternius will demonstrate. Quaternius contains thousands of 3D assets, often game ready, rigged and animated in a wide variety of genres and themes.

Asset

PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest breakout hits of 2023 was the haunting fishing adventure Dredge by New Zealand-based indie developer Black Salt Games. Much to the delight (and surprise) of the four-person crew, their debut game sold 100.000 copies in the first 24 hours after launch, smashing the goal for the whole year.

Playtesting

Yotes Games

APRIL 13, 2023

Should be done and in-game by April's end (but given how that estimate's measured in gamedev time, we'll see how that goes ?). It took about a month and a half, but ALL the pony sprite pieces have finally been drawn and as of right now I can begin the frame-by-frame animation process!

Sprite

Unity Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Ziva Real-Time helps character artists create high-quality real-time character performances for games, animation, and film by accelerating the training of character rigs. Characters and creatures trained using this RT3D tool express rich deformations and biomechanics whilst conforming to multiple memory budgets.

Rigging

Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 7, 2024

About a year and a half ago, I stumbled across a YouTube video that introduced me to a new player in the animation software game— Cascadeur. Here are some of the standout features that make Cascadeur a game-changer, not just for veterans like me, but also for aspiring animators: 1. The simplicity of the process is hard to miss!

Animation

Game Errors

APRIL 7, 2023

Remember your childhood when you used to play games with those hefty gaming PCs and consoles linked with your TVs, RIGHT? Therefore, from prominent arcade games to realistic-visual games, technology also improved from bulky, hefty, and enormous gaming rigs and consoles from slimmer, advanced-featured, and sleeker gaming laptops.

Rigging

Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The cost of any content in game dev is directly proportional to how much new stuff needs to be created for that content. In an ongoing game like SWTOR, element numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 were already built long ago and already exist. needs its own rig), that's time from a rigger to create.

Cutscenes

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game development is a collaborative process that involves various people with specialized skills. The two most critical roles in this process are game artists and designers. Since most of us are unaware of the process of creating a game, we usually confuse game design and game art as being the same.

Game Design

Game Industry News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Cerritos crew exceeded her expectations, even without her drills being rigged to force failure, and they will all be reassigned for remediation. Rutherford, though game to complete the scenario, has no gloves. The post I, Excretus: That’s One Way to Rig a Score appeared first on Game Industry News. Cool, cool.

Rigging

CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. Control rigs for the crew and X-Wing models. Building Control Rigs for a crew member. X-Wing animation using Control Rigs. Creating realistic characters.

Film

Game From Scratch

JULY 27, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Game Dev’s Guide to Fantasy Creatures Assets Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Game Dev’s Guide to Fantasy Creatures assets bundle. This is an interesting new approach to bundles as it consists of only a single $15 dollar tier.

Fantasy

Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

In todays dynamic game development world, animation plays a vital role in defining player experiences and shaping game aesthetics. From the pixelated classics of the 80s to todays immersive and realistic graphics, animation has redefined the gaming experience. How did 2D and 3D Animation Evolve in Gaming?

Animation

CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Animation is the art of breathing life into the inanimate for films, games, and advertising. The animator can also create characters using digital rigging. Learn more about what a 2D animator does in games and film. 3D animation lets you drop your 3D rigged model into a digital scene and manipulate it. 2D Animation.

Animation

Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2024

A single purchasable asset is never atomic - the purchased item is comprised of many parts like the 3D model, the diffuse textures, normal map, occlusion map, any other materials, rigging, animations, shaders, and so on. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

Asset

Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

There's been some game dev twittering about Unity vs. Unreal lately. And if you're making the typical aspirational photorealistic action game, you'll probably want UE's gameplay architecture and free photoscan assets too. I'm also interested in making web browser games as a way to bypass platform censors.

Engine

CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Head of VFX Daniel Hourigan ( Aquaman , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Terminator: Dark Fate ) takes us through how he built his KitBash3D Mission to Minerva settlement in Houdini, detailing key steps from his recent informative livestreams, including a great workaround for creating a fast rendering volumetric glow. CG Spectrum's Dept.

Terrain

DameDev.tv

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Also, rigging is much easier with Blender's Riggify, auto-rigger. Also, remember to save different versions of your 3D models at different points, such as, before rigging, so you can go back to a previous version, if something goes wrong. Also, the 3D models can be used for 3D printing.

Animation

iXie gaming

APRIL 24, 2023

The creation of three-dimensional objects, characters, and locations for use in video games is a challenging process known as 3D game art production. It combines art and technology, resulting in visually stunning and immersive game worlds that captivate players.

Art

Game Errors

APRIL 3, 2023

Real gamers know that expert-level strategy goes beyond talent and skill—it’s also about your gaming setup and how you use it. Or maybe your refresh rate is slowing you down, putting you steps behind the competition…When it comes to true success in gaming, you have to strike a balance between skill, gear, and passion.

Rigging

iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Newbies and developers have always found it difficult in building tools for game development without using programming. However, there are now several online game production tools that enable game developers to rapidly and easily build games. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers.

Game Developer

Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2024

The importance of the narrative depends primarily on how important the narrative is to the game. For a game like Overwatch, where the core gameplay is team pvp, the narrative is a lot less important and things like relationships are generally prioritized. If we can always make changes forever, we'll never ship the game.

Cutscenes

Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Unity has a rich and sophisticated animation system for the game development process , also referred to as ‘ Mecanim ’. It is a powerful tool for game developers to create dynamic, true-to-life animations for characters, objects, and environments in their games.

Animation

Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, the tradeoff is that the game would look like an upscaled version of a Switch game on the higher-end platforms. The source assets like animation rigging and motions, textures, character and environment models, and so on would be built at a lower fidelity. Take a look at that game and you'll see what I mean.

Platformer

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

There are many reasons why people pursue a career in film and video games—it’s a creative, dynamic, challenging, and rewarding industry that gives artists opportunities to work on world-class projects while earning a regular income. How would you like to contribute, creatively and technically, to a film or game?

Film

PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Incredible Potential of Games Duck Hunt was one of Mantey’s first games as a child. What fascinated him was how the game used a gun-like device. Later, he moved on to games like Assassin’s Creed, Grand Theft Auto, and FIFA. These games made him curious about their power. I just ignored it and walked away.

Engine

Moonmana

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Game development is a complex process that involves a lot of different specialists and consists of a number of steps and smaller tasks. . To develop a high-quality and competitive game, you should carefully execute every stage, step by step. This is what players first pay attention to, comparing your game with others.

Art

Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are many aspects to consider when building a game. The post-processing stack (v2) comes with a collection of effects and image filters you can apply to your cameras to improve the visuals of your games. . Use Unity Timeline to create cinematic content, game-play sequences, audio sequences, and complex particle effects. .

Asset

Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 5, 2020

As you know, our mantra here at ACS Games has always been one of inclusivity, togetherness, acceptance, and love. Will also removed the jumping ability from the game and fixed a few bugs regarding the targeting of spells—like the Earthquake spell and the Impaler's special ability. in their inventory.

Dev

iXie gaming

AUGUST 12, 2024

For years, video game characters moved awkwardly, like stiff cardboard figures. Even as game graphics became beautiful 3D scenes, the animations didn’t match up. It records real actors’ movements and turns them into digital data, making game characters move more realistically. Their actions looked robotic and fake.

Animation