Last year, it was announced that Riot Games had decided to allow betting sponsorships in top-tier League of Legends and Valorant, and even though they received mixed reactions, they saw it as a responsible way to address something that was already happening. On the—ironically—other side, the Seoul…
This Tool Gives Every Blender Object Its Own Undo History Works across Object Mode, Sculpt, Paint, Pose, Animation, and other editors. Blender's default undo system uses a single timeline for everything, so if you adjust one object, then continue working on several others, undoing that original…
Albert Omoss has launched a major update to his node-based image editor, positioned as an alternative to Photoshop. In ArcBrush, every action is a node, so the whole project stays editable and nothing gets flattened. Version 1.5 moves the workflow from 8-bit color to a color-managed 32-bit float…
Sequel to This Stylish Hand-Drawn Dark Fantasy Point-and-Click Adventure Is Coming Today Solve puzzles and make morally ambiguous choices. Tormentum is a point-and-click puzzle game you might not remember by name but will definitely recognize from its dark, hand-drawn environments. OhNoo Studio…
Check Out This Heavy Rain Scene Built with a Custom Unity URP Renderer Mirza Beig showcased a new work. Technical Artist Mirza Beig impressed the audience with a new eye-catching Unity setup, this time showing a fascinating rain scene. The artist also shared technical details behind the effects.…
Check out what's new in Autodesk's latest 3ds Max release. 3ds Max 2027.2 is out, bringing a range of updates, including support for editing Gaussian Splats, a new Point Object type, a new Point Instance modifier, and more. Probably the most exciting new option in the software is native Gaussian…
Sweet Hamster Days is a Japanese story sim where you are a hamster cared for by three sisters. Take a look at Sweet Hamster Days, a mix of live-action, story sim, and first-person adventure from Kodansha, where you play as a literal hamster after reincarnation. As a little creature, you live with…
This Pulsating Red Creature Is Made Entirely With Math It's not AI. Vitaliy Kaurov, whose similar aquatic creature we shared before, suggests the names DragonSpine or TetherRoot for this one. Like his previous project, he adapted an animation by yuruyurau from P5.js to Wolfram Language and shared…
Explore Professional Character FX Workflows in Houdini with This DoubleJump Academy Course – Now 20% Off Milen Piskuliyski will fill your next 26 hours with how to integrate your character into an environment. It's not enough to drop a character into a 3D scene if you want a good, high-quality…
The new features include more options to send a gift card, shared wishlist links, categories, and more. Steam introduces updates to gifting and wishlists, making it easier to send gifts and organize the games you'd like to play. Check out the overview of the new options below. With Guest checkout,…
Unity Destruction Prototype With Fully Procedural Runtime Fracturing Renovate beautiful spaces by completely tearing them apart in Open Plan. This one looks so good it barely needs a plot, the physics alone are already very satisfying. We've previously featured Luke Mitchell, also known as…
Play Xbox Console Games on PC with Backward Compatibility The initiative starts with four classic games, and more will be added. Xbox officially announced Backward Compatibility on PC, bringing console titles to PC and handhelds, including ROG XBOX Ally and XBOX Ally X, with enhanced gameplay. The…
What do you think about this? It's not the first time we've heard about an Apple lease program, but this time it might be more real than other times. Following the rising prices of their devices, they're planning to let consumers pay for them over different periods of time, depending on the…
OpenAI thinks it's only the beginning. Old movies about machines taking over the world are suddenly not so funny: machine learning platform Hugging Face was breached by an AI agent, and ChatGPT creator OpenAI believes such incidents will continue in the future. Last week, Hugging Face discovered an…
New Tear Painter Update Lets You Pick Colors Directly From Textures Get the latest version of Nodes Interactive's Blender tool. Piotr Popek, also known as Nodes Interactive, has released a major new version of his Blender tool for creating tears with brush strokes. In Tear Painter 1.3, users can…
The Forgotten Metal Technique Behind 2008's Iron Man Lucas Piazzini's tutorial is now available. At 80 Level, we often look back at classic CGI and game development approaches that not only continue to amaze but have also stood the test of time, remaining just as applicable today. Lucas Piazzini's…
Prism Works' rain system for Unity URP features terrain-adaptive ripples, building occlusion, and more. Prism Works has released Dynamic Rain System URP, a high-quality real-time rain effect system for Unity URP, built with VFX Graph. The system features terrain-adaptive ripples that automatically…
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's Xbox Exclusivity Deal Surpassed the Game's Own Development Budget GSC Game World's head shared an unexpected detail about the Xbox exclusivity deal. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl was so promising that it got Xbox to make it the platform's exclusive for a price that…
"100% bones, 0 blendshapes." Igor Silva, a Character Technical Artist at Blizzard Entertainment, shared a WIP project featuring a character created by Gustavo Medeiros, demonstrating an RBF muscle setup rendered in Unreal Engine 5. This rig uses no blendshapes: the torso and arms are powered by…
This 3D Artist Created Amazingly Detailed Rig For Bee Feet Great toe beans. Last week, we featured a tiny mosquito created by AhmadReza AfsharMoghadam, who modeled, textured, rigged, and animated it in amazing detail. If you want to see more of this kind of meticulous insect work, SinnersSAW has…
Daniel Abrams created this stunning setup inspired by the anime The Summer Hikaru Died without AI. Check out this gorgeous 3D animation by Daniel Abrams, inspired by the anime The Summer Hikaru Died. The animation captures the core feeling of the anime, where something beautiful and unsettling…
Artist Shows Process of Modeling Scar from The Lion King in Blender Check out a time-lapse from Juan Carlos CR. 3D Artist Juan Carlos CR shared a time-lapse of recreating Scar from The Lion King, a classic 1994 animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. The artist recorded the entire…
Unity 7 Has Been Announced It promises to deliver faster workflows, an open and collaborative ecosystem, better graphics, and more. Earlier this week at Unite Seoul, the company announced Unity 7, the next major version of its game engine, designed for a "faster-moving, more open industry where…
Jared Palmer moves fast. Jared Palmer has left his position as VP of Engineering at Xbox 2 months after he got it, joining AI company Cognition to lead engineering instead. He said he is grateful to Xbox's CEO, Asha Sharma, and everyone at Xbox "for an amazing year." Palmer started as VP of Product…