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Animation studio Digic Pictures laid off 35 staff this past summer

Game Developer

Digic is best known as the animation studio behind cinematics and marketing for popular games such as Rainbow Six Siege, Elden Ring , and Marvel's Midnight Suns.

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Zoochosis by Clapperheads will make you fear those lovely animals in the zoo

PreMortem.Games

A terrifying parasite is spreading, mutating some of the animals into grotesque, blood-thirsty monsters ready to kill their way out of their cages. Welcome to the unsettling world of Zoochosis by indie game studio Clapperheads. Behind all this madness is an indie studio, but not in the classical sense. Of course, in a zoo.

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Filmmaking in Unreal Engine — how Hanny created her arthouse cinematic

CG Spectrum

Hanny shares her visually stunning final project with us, a short cinematic called Naima , detailing how she created her scenes in Unreal Engine, where she drew her inspiration from, and how the technical and creative support of her industry expert mentors allowed her to bring her vision to fruition. So, I signed up! Adding Metahumans.

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So how much $ (in general) does it cost to produce a fully animated/rigged, fully voiced 1-3 minute cutscene in a game that’s in ongoing development (something like SWTOR, where they have a lot of prebuilt assets)? Like just a general low range and high range? I’m seeing a lot of people complaining about prioritizing content they want, and don’t know enough about the behind the scenes costs to properly communicate they’re being unrealistic with their complaints.

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If the character needs to animate differently than everyone else (i.e. If the cutscene needs new animations we need to bring on an animator to spend time building the new animations needed for the cutscene. Adding in two new animations (e.g. that might need to be created for certain specific cutscenes.

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The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry

iXie gaming

Although it’s difficult to find a trustworthy game art outsourcing studio with a solid industry background and portfolio, I’ll show you 10 reliable art outsourcing companies in this blog. . Below are 10 reliable outsourcing studios that you’ll find extremely helpful: 1. your partners will take care of everything.

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Artist Cassie Simpson on navigating Life, three University Majors and Work 

PreMortem.Games

My first encounter with Cassie Simpson was during the inaugural Xbox Game Studios Game Camp Africa in 2023. In December 2023, she exhibited some of Chroma Pixel Games’ studio work at Africa Games Week and attended Playtopia Festival. I wanted to learn techniques that not everyone knows like coding and animations.

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On the topic of cutscenes, do you think we will get to the point where fully pre-rendered cutscenes will be phased out entirely? Are there any other advantages to having a cutscene be pre-rendered rather than in engine besides the cutscene being “prettier” than the base graphics?

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As in-engine rendering improves, AAA games will likely move away from pre-rendered cutscenes but AAA games are far from the only games that use cutscenes and have engines that can render high quality cinematic visuals (e.g. high resolution high quality character models performing high quality animations and visual effects).