This Retro Anime-Style 2-Player Co-Op Game Has Hand-Drawn Backgrounds A love letter to the classics from a team that has "a passion for making things with our own hands and getting dirty". If you enjoy games like It Takes Two and have a soft spot for stylized indie projects, you might want to check…
Check out Alan Syarif's setup. Have a look at this cool Blender visualization of a jelly-like substance morphing into different shapes, showcased by 3D Artist Alan Syarif. The setup is made using the Marrow add-on – an in-progress tool that the artist works on. It's a tool for visualizing soft…
Game Developer Sol used shaders in this 3D-looking setup. If you have been a fan of collecting cool stationery in your school years, including cute notebooks and, of course, stickers, you will like this cool project from Game Developer Sol. The artist crafted interactive digital stickers using the…
How many times did you watch it? Berk Gedik, Principal CGI Artist, shared a weirdly interesting and satisfying animation of eyes multiplying inside a plastic bubble or wrap with a popping sound. The artist explained that he made the sound effect with his mouth and created the animation with…
Would you like to play this game? Steel Soul Shaper is a narrative-driven simulation game in which you play as a cyberware surgeon running a secret clinic in a cyberpunk world. If you are someone who likes to repair or paint things, this game will allow you to test your skills. You'll have to weld…
Free Blender Tool For Easily Cutting Meshes With Planes It includes a live preview. Firg's Cut Plane does exactly what its name implies: it lets you slice a mesh with a plane and see the result in real-time as you move it. To use the tool, position the plane using a gizmo, and the mesh is bisected…
How To Paint Seamlessly In Blender's Texture Paint Mode Learn from Omar Faruq Tawsif. ▶ YouTube 3D Artist Omar Faruq Tawsif, whose beautiful 3D paintings we often feature, has released a new tutorial exploring a workflow for creating seamless textures in 3D using Blender's built-in Texture Paint…
Bioform is made by a real medical doctor. ▶ YouTube Some things can only be created at the intersection of different fields, and Hamza N. Meo, a medical doctor and 3D Artist, is a great example of that. He recently launched Bioform, a fully procedural biological material library for artists who…
Kingdom Hearts 4 Gets Release Window so You Can Prepare for Playing as Mickey Mouse Or, take Goofy and Hades instead. Finally, Kingdom Hearts 4 is not just a dream but a reality that will grace players' screens sooner than they might expect. Disney's D23 revealed a new trailer, and if you can't get…
Would you prefer him to Pedro Pascal? Pedro Pascal did a fantastic job as Joel in HBO's The Last of Us adaptation, but what if the character was portrayed by Matthew McConaughey? Apparently, this is not as wild a thought as one might think: McConaughey discussed the role with showrunner Craig…
Analyze the movement, set up the folding mechanisms, and learn how to fix common problems. ▶ YouTube A folding chair looks simple: we've all seen it countless times, and many of us probably even have one at home. But when it comes to animating a chair, setting up the rig, and creating smooth…
The team of Compiling Shaders Games showed progress on the puzzle platformer Barely Breathing. The developers of the upcoming puzzle platformer Barely Breathing shared their progress on the game's development achieved in 8 months, showing how the project's visuals improved over time. The game is…
Saber Interactive CEO Responds To Claims Writer Was Replaced By AI A full recap of the Rideshare "Stimulator" drama, which got way too personal. ▶ YouTube Last week, Saber Interactive's upcoming Rideshare "Stimulator" became the subject of an online controversy after its former writer, Stella…
Deepak Kushwaha shared an insightful look at the work with lighting tests and analogue sketches. Take a look at this eye-catching 3D scene and its WIPs unveiled by Digital and Technical Artist Deepak Kushwaha. The scene was made using Blender, and the artist shared some thoughts on the tools used…
Indie Dev Shows Seamless Animation Made for Factory Game Inspired by Opus Magnum & Infinifactory Check out the creative techniques behind Number Machine: Math Factory. Have a look at this cool seamless pause animation created by indie developer ARIELEK for their factory game Number Machine: Math…
Territory Studio shared how it reflected the game's concepts in the lyrical title sequence. ▶ YouTube Take a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the cinematic title sequence for IO Interactive's espionage action-adventure 007 First Light, released this May. The creative team at Territory…
Huion Kamvas 22 (Gen 3): Affordable Entry-Level Pen Display for 2D, 3D & Video Editing Not just a drawing tablet but a whole second monitor. ▶ YouTube Huion describes the Kamvas 22 (Gen 3) as an ideal entry-level pen display, and I am its perfect user in this regard – with some experience in 3D and…
Have you played this game? ▶ YouTube Low-Budget Repairs is a funny and chaotic simulation game that we have been following for a while, and now it's finally out. The game has you playing as a handyman, repairing 1990s apartments in a Polish block, but you have to do it while saving as much money as…
What would you like to see in the sequel? Hogwarts Legacy came out in 2023 and quickly became a success for Avalanche Software and Warner Bros. Games. It sold 12 million copies during its first two weeks, making it the fastest-selling game in Warner Bros. Games history. Since then, fans have been…
Kai “Kizzle” Mergener recently created the Shattered World Signature Collection for Substance 3D Assets—fifteen dark fantasy materials built in Substance 3D Designer. Here, Kai discusses the collection's themes, his technical process, and why he's calling this project his grand finale as a material…
Procedural American Downtown Generator For Blender Build detailed city environments while maintaining full artistic control. ▶ YouTube With Mohamed Elsherif's tool, you can build fully procedural downtown scenes in seconds while retaining full control. And you're not limited to American-style…
Embracer Group Expects Next Kingdom Come Sooner Than You Might Think Also, Darksiders 4 and Tomb Raider: Catalyst. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was a huge hit (and my personal game of the year), and Embracer Group, the parent company of the sequel's publisher Deep Silver, already expects more. In…
Easy Stylized Line Art Technique For Blender You can also download Edutaker's setup for free. Eduardo Hernández, known online as Edutaker, has published a short tutorial showing how to quickly create line art in Blender. His setup makes the effect easy to animate, resulting in a very nice,…
3D Artist Reimagined Half-Life 2's Headcrab With Unreal Engine 5's Substrate Emanuel Pessel documented his entire process in a 62-page breakdown. ▶ YouTube Emanuel Pessel created this project as both a portfolio piece and an educational exercise, with the main goal of exploring Unreal Engine's…