MatPlus Brings Substance 3D Painter-Inspired Texture Painting To Blender Paint directly on 3D models, work across multiple UDIM tiles, and export game-ready texture maps for game engines, all without leaving Blender. ▶ YouTube A year ago, BeFX Studios launched MatPlus, a powerful texturing tool…
Check out Seb van den Beemt created it using Unreal Engine. Technical Environment Artist Seb van den Beemt unveiled this fascinating train animation, which immediately captures attention with its mind-blowing bridge effect. It runs entirely at runtime using Unreal Engine's Niagara. Apart from UE5,…
Inspired by manga artist Tsutomu Nihei, the Blender scene's complex array setup nearly crashed the artist's PC. Have a look at this surreal and creepy 3D render created using Blender by a Graphic Designer known as Round3d.pixel. "This almost made my PC crash," the artist wrote, referring to the…
Godot-Powered Ultra-Squishy Merge Game You'll Want To Play A mobile version is definitely needed. 2048, but everything is jiggly. Essentially, these blobs are made up of a perimeter of small rigid-body circles, kind of like a string of beads. As developer keepeetron explained, this was originally…
This Fish Moves Using Simple Physics & Math Shirzad Bahrami has published the tutorial along with a 3ds Max script. Shirzad Bahrami, a Technical Artist at EA, recently shared an animation that quickly caught attention, with some assuming it was AI-generated or vibe-coded. But as Bahrami clarified,…
Vossadova shared a new fantastic Blender 3D scene with cute animals. 3D Artist Vossadova, whose hilarious Blender animation recreating a cute popular meme with a kitten drinking milk we featured recently, unveiled a new stylized animation crafted in their signature style. The work features the…
Ivailo Ivanov continues to impress with realistic portraits. Character Artist Ivailo Ivanov paid homage to Striking Distance Studios and KRAFTON's sci-fi adventure The Callisto Protocol, recreating Dr. Caitlyn Mahler with the likeness of actress Louise Barnes. The artist shared that he was inspired…
If you create content on social media and love the fantastic worlds of CDPR's games, this is for you. CD Projekt Red, the developer of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher franchise, launches a Creators & Ambassadors Program – a community fostering creativity and collaboration that is set to feature…
It makes me want to clean the fingerprints. The 3D Artist Astrvm_vctm shared on Reddit a compact disc shader built with a Diffraction Grating System, showing a video of a disc moving and reflecting light. The CD even has fingerprints and subtle scratches that create a more realistic look. In the…
Do you imagine the game in this style? Ward Dermaut, a 3D Character Modeler, shared a stylized 3D reimagination of Ellie Williams from The Last of Us Part 2 on LinkedIn and ArtStation. It was based on a 2D design by Ben Luckhart. Dermaut explained that, as a big fan of the games, he wanted to…
Check out this week's 80 Level Job Digest for top openings at Amazon Game Studios, Focus Entertainment, SEGA, NCSOFT, and thatgamecompany. Games Researcher at Amazon Game Studios Amazon Games is looking for a Games Researcher to help build new mass-market games with a multiplayer component. Working…
Disco Elysium fans might want to try the demo. ▶ YouTube If you enjoyed the mysteries of Weather Factory's Cultist Simulator, you should definitely wishlist their latest creation: Travelling At Night is a "globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG" that combines the studio's recognizable style and complex…
Have a look at how the 2D style was transferred to 3D. 3D Artist known on Reddit as SploogeMaster2301 unveiled this animated take on Azami Kurotani from the manga series Uzumaki, written and illustrated by Junji Ito. Using Blender, the artist recreated the character while keeping the manga's…
Check out how developer Drin made it. This cute alien, visualized by Senior Developer Drin, looks 3D but in fact isn't. Built in Three.js, the approach relies on shader math rather than geometry to create the 3D effect. There's no mesh, no textures, and not a single vertex behind it, just math…
1666: Amsterdam's Early Access Launch Date Revealed Panache Digital Games has also unveiled a new gameplay video. ▶ YouTube 1666: Amsterdam has had a long and troubled development, but that journey is finally coming to an end. Panache Digital Games has announced that 1666: Amsterdam will launch in…
Stunning Sea Of Thieves-Inspired Water In Godot It looks so real, you can almost feel the seasickness just watching it. We at 80 Level can't walk past a great water system, and naturally, we couldn't overlook this one by Godot Developer known as _brennon on Reddit. The water in Sea of Thieves is…
Artist Shows Web Tornado from Spider-Man: Brand New Day Made with Blender Geometry Nodes Check out a new work from Cartesian Caramel. Cartesian Caramel, a talented 3D artist known for amazing Blender experiments and fantastic 3D works, impressed the audience with a new cool setup – a visualization…
Testing Shoulder Deformation With Joints On Curves Check out Matt Le-Fevre's approach. Matt Le Fevre, Senior Technical Artist at Ninja Theory, recently revisited an old project based on a system where poses drive curves, which in turn drive joints, looking pretty elegant. He has presented a…
You can buy the software until November 6. Autodesk has announced the discontinuation of Mudbox, a 3D digital painting and sculpting software for artists working in cinematics, TV, and game development, meaning that sales of new and renewals of existing subscriptions will end in 2026. Sales of…
KitBash is bringing ArtStation and Sketchfab together with KitBash3D and Greyscalegorilla, while promising that existing portfolios, libraries, subscriptions, and core workflows will remain unchanged. Epic is consolidating its focus on Unreal Engine 6, Fortnite, and the Epic Games Store. KitBash…
It looks really cool! Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a remake of the 2013 original game, and it became the biggest Steam launch in the history of the franchise, surpassing 99,000 concurrent players a day after its release. And now Ave Espelita, Lead Animator at Ubisoft Philippines, shared…
"Up 24% year-over-year." Unity just had, in the words of President and CEO Matt Bromberg, "arguably the best quarter in Unity's history as a public company." In Unity's most recent earnings report, it was announced that revenue hit $546 million for Q2 2026, up from $441 million a year earlier,…
Try to Appease Sultan by Doing Questionable Things to People & Animals in This Story-Rich Game This is a game that you need to play, not watch. I don't remember who I heard about Sultan's Game from, but whoever it was, I'm eternally grateful because I have been consumed by it for over a month now,…
Spider-Man-Style Web Shooter With Geometry Nodes This probably should've been Deadpool. Well, maybe let's not share what you'd use that projectile for. This is some great showcase of the power of Geometry Nodes, and it all has to be the fault of Spider-Man: Brand New Day hitting theaters, as we…