CG Spectrum

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Currently in production, Gerel: Against the Corvus Empire is a 2D pixel art side-scrolling platformer with Metroidvania elements. for the pixel artist to use as a base. The team also includes Pixel Artist and Animator PieGlitched , Composer Joona Latti (based in Finland), and Sound Designer Mikko Saarinen (also based in Finland).

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CG Spectrum

MAY 9, 2024

We are delighted to announce that Nathaniel Mosemann, a graduate of the CG Spectrum Digital Compositing Foundations , has been offered a paid internship at the renowned VFX and animation studio Framestore! She starts as a Junior 3D Animator at Pixel Zoo Animation in the new year! Jess's animation showreel.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

However, I eventually felt the need for a significant change in my life, leading me to transition into the roles of a 2D rigger, animator, and game developer.” But with the added elements of illustrations, animations, and music.” I handled programming and composing, while my friend created all the pixel art graphics.

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Game Development

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We now have everything in place except the animation code that draws the images on the canvas. The post Using Javascript and HTML canvas to make Animated Interactive Backgrounds appeared first on Game Development. The comments should explain what each part of the code does. Drawing on the Canvas.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner. This is consistent with how most image file formats store pixel data, and with how most graphics APIs work (including DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, but not OpenGL). x,waveFactor.y-uv0.y);

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

More Art Works : More Art Works (pixel art) : Available for more art works! 2D Cartoon Art Work Game Assets Service : I can work on fixed price (based on my $14 per hour rate estimate), I do need a list of the assets to calculate. For a more accurate cost, give me a list, and I will calculate for a fix cost.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You may have seen some 2D or 3D animated movies and video games that look like they were hand-drawn or have a cartoon-like style. Usually, Japanese anime films and video games feature this distinct look. This type or technique of animation is known as cel-shading animation. Some also refer to it as toon shading.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

(Above: some WIP pixel art from Wizbane) You might have noticed I’ve been writing about and playing a lot of RPGs recently. Final Fantasy VI-inspired pixel art. Shooting for something with the basic vibe of Final Fantasy VI, but I want to hand-draw the attack animations and make them feel more dynamic. How can you help?

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Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

Whoever thought Spine 2D animation reminds you of a paper doll craft, where you move all the body parts to create animations, was right! Spine is a 2D skeletal animation tool for game development and other animation projects. One, how Spine works as a great 2D animation software. How does it work? They create!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! Animation: Make cubic_interpolate() consider key time in animation ( GH-63602 ). Animation: Improve animation track optimizer ( GH-64132 ). for instructions.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 10, 2023

The images we see on any type of screen are composed of tiny squares of color that we refer to as pixels. Whether it’s the screen you’re now viewing or a gaming character, all of these pixels added together are ultimately what give us the image we see. In actuality, pixel art is a form of raster art. Vector Art.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Though we started with 2D animation, we’ve progressed by leaps and bounds. The days of pixelated graphics are long gone. This is a far cry from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) that came out in 1990 with its 256×224 resolution and 8×8-pixel graphics. That said, graphic designing is versatile as well.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

You Mostly use it for making 3D models, adding texture to your 3D models as well as rigging and animating them. Blender lets you create animated films, visual effects, and also features a video editor. You can use it for both digital paintings and pixel art. This tool is perfect for making 3D games.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 17, 2023

It’s a pleasing collection, including hits from down the years, such as Pong, Animal Crossing, Journey, and Candy Crush Saga. In his new book, The Best Non-Violent Video Games , James Batchelor celebrates 300 games from the past 50 years.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

We were so excited by the prospect of making a game that he dove headfirst into pixel art and I into programming. First, Godot uses the pixel as the native unit of measurement, which makes it ideal for 2D games. Finally, Godot has better animation tools than other engines I have worked with. That was around August 2017.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Buckle up, aspiring developers, because the barrier to entry just shrunk to the size of a pixel! Sketch a rough concept, set some parameters, and Dimensions will generate 3D models, textures, and animations. Have you ever dreamt of crafting your own epic game? It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 22, 2020

One of the changes I made to the engine was severing it from pixel art. It can still do pixel art, but it's better at doing higher res formats and I implemented Spine for character animations. I've been looking for some humanoid Spine animations in 4 or 8 directions.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 22, 2020

One of the changes I made to the engine was severing it from pixel art. It can still do pixel art, but it's better at doing higher res formats and I implemented Spine as an option for character animations. I've been looking for some humanoid Spine animations in 4 or 8 directions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 19, 2021

Five years in development, Resolutiion tells the story of the soldier Valor and his AI Alibii’s journey through a 2D dreamworld of lovely pixels, dirty jokes and badassemotional tunes, inspired by classic Zelda and similar action-adventure-games. How did you discover Godot? When did you start using it?

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Artists have always played a crucial role in game development, meticulously creating characters, environments, and animations. Machine learning algorithms now generate realistic textures, procedural landscapes, and lifelike animations, reducing the time and effort required by human artists.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

const vec3 weight = vec3(0.2126, 0.7152, 0.0722); vec3 Grayscale(in vec3 o, float value){ float lumin = dot(o, weight); vec3 final = mix(o, vec3(lumin), value); return final; } vec4 frag() { vec4 pixel = texture(mainTexture, v_uv); pixel.rgb = Grayscale(pixel.rgb, intensity); return pixel; } 2.

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Big Games

AUGUST 17, 2021

Flash Technology For the game to be engaging and have interactive animation include the Flash technology in the smartphone games. By using these animation packages, it is easy to reach the targeted audience. 3D Game Development 3-dimensional technology has revolutionized the gaming industry and has taken it to the next level.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Animation has boomed in recent years and it’s now present in nearly every film or television show. The increase in popularity is caused by animation’s ability to storytell and hold an audience’s attention. Although, crafting animations isn’t a cakewalk by any means. Why would a cloud infrastructure like AWS help?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 2, 2018

This cute and well-designed pixel art puzzle game snatched the 1 st position in the Gameplay and Graphics and Sound categories, and 2 nd position in the Theme interpretation category ( Overall rating: 4.088). See below for details , but first let's check the top 3! Fire and Fondness. Download the jam version , see detailed credits on itch.io

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

NVIDIA Real Time Denoiser (NRD) NRD is a spatio-temporal API-agnostic denoising library that’s designed to work with low ray-per-pixel signals. With the Audio2Face app, Omniverse users can generate AI-driven facial animation from audio sources. Developers can apply for general access to RTXGI here. In version 2.0,

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Game Refinery

APRIL 27, 2023

Nintendo has experienced this first-hand after shutting down both Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and Fire Emblem: Heroes in Belgium in 2019 due to their heavy reliance on gacha mechanics, stating at the time that ‘future Nintendo games with similar earnings models will no longer be released in Belgium.’

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

Thus, when every pixel of the old games seems to be explored up and down, DLC (downloadable content) might become a good option to sugarcoat things. For both of these cases, pixel games often work as a great basis. Players can also unlock various masks with unique abilities and customize their character through the in-game shop.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Finger tracking itself is fully supported both through updating orientation of meshes, for which a sample scene is included in the plugin, and through animating a skeleton and bone deformation. Any feature that requires reading adjacent pixels requires a pass to be finished. This however comes at a tradeoff.

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Moonmana

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As you may guess from the name, 2D animation relates to 2-dimensional game art based on flat shapes and objects. We were living in the bits era until 2D art finally deployed distinct visuals making each one unique, and as technology kept on advancing, so did 2D animation. People love that nostalgic vibe games with pixel art offer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Allow negative speed_scale in AnimatedSprite2D & 3D ( GH-65148 ). Rendering: Take FXAA samples from half-pixel coordinates to improve quality ( GH-66466 ). See the changelog on GitHub for an overview of all changes since 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Allow negative speed_scale in AnimatedSprite2D & 3D ( GH-65148 ). Rendering: Take FXAA samples from half-pixel coordinates to improve quality ( GH-66466 ). See the changelog on GitHub for an overview of all changes since 4.0

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Shaders are programs that describe the traits of vertices and pixels. It also prepares the data (like the UVs) that will be used next by the Pixel Shader. The Pixel Shader runs once per each pixel and renders your object. Here you can apply textures (that’s why you need UVs), change colors, discard pixels etc.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This real-time cinematic series showed off visuals at a level of fidelity that audiences had only ever seen in high-end animated films. Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light as pixels in an image plane, simulating effects like reflections and shadows. Check them out below: Video.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

Scene from the 3D animation Finding Nemo before and after its been lit and rendered by a 3D lighting artist (Image: Pixar). The skills of a 3D lighting artist can be applied in video games, visualization , film and television, animations, and virtual production. the amount of sunlight, moonlight, cloud cover, etc.)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

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