Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

In our last issue, we showed off the realistic fur our Lead Character Modeler, Pete, had started creating using hair cards and a custom fur shader. link] As Pete continued playing with the Blender plugin, the custom shader, and the hair cards, he got closer and closer to the realistic look of the fur that we're going for.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In today's issue, you'll get an update on all the custom 3D assets we've been working on for the capital city of Nisar, plus a peek into our process for creating a fully functional facial rig for our female main character. Ideally, the Hair shader can be used again once Joe has a better understanding of how the tool works.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

We created 4 UV sets of each car and wrote a shader that swaps them. Adjusting mesh, rig and skinning needed a couple of iterations. As I mentioned before – almost every 3D object uses the same atlas texture. To change the car’s colors we don’t need a separate model or prefab. That allows us to reduce the size of the game.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D models can be rigged and then animated, placed as stationary objects in a scene by a layout artist, simulated or destroyed by an FX artist, and used for shadows or holdouts by a lighting artist. 3D modeling software 3D modelers use a range of software for modeling, sculpting, and texturing. A recent 3D animation student reel from CGS.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It's much faster and we can instantly see the effects as we modify the shader. Demo: Character rigging using Skeleton2D | Matejs Balodis. A quick demo on how to set up, rig and animate a 2D character in Godot Engine using 2D meshes and the Skeleton2D node. All that happens on the CPU.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To generate digital humans, teams must first make 3D models, textures, shaders, skeleton rig, and deformation of the skin so it follows the skeleton. There are three main components to making a digital human, and each of these requires a different combination of art and technologies: generation, animation , and intelligence.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Writes shaders, writes scripts, works with code. Takes the rigs built by the riggers and manipulates them so they can convey believable motion over time. Technical Artist : [ The hybrid artist/programmer ]. Is often responsible for the art tools and keeping other artists’ work performant. Rigger : [ The skeleton master ].

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Moving forward, Joe will continue to refine and improve the look of the fur, adding a dither effect to the hair shader to soften the edges of each card. Next, Pete exported the hair cards into Unreal in order to build a universal hair shader that could then ultimately be applied to every fur-havin' character in Kristala.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

Soon, Fede will be experimenting with our custom fur shader and working with hair cards to create realistic fur for these toothy baddies. link] Rigging / Animation. This sprint, Fede was able to continue working on the soldiers and armor he'd started, polishing up details and working on intricate textures.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 13, 2023

Having control over all technical aspects of the shaders allowed me to art direct the scene as a whole. As I was populating the scene, I was either creating new material functions to implement into my master material, modifying shader properties to be integrated into the scene, or modifying assets directly in Blender.

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