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Gerel: Against The Corvus Empire - a pixel art video game by CGS grads

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Through this unique online network, Alan connected with Advanced Concept Art Course graduate Dogyeong (Do) Lee and Game Design Course graduate Alexios Vasilakis who both joined the Overwrite Interactive team. Currently in production, Gerel: Against the Corvus Empire is a 2D pixel art side-scrolling platformer with Metroidvania elements.

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

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What caught my attention wasn’t just her confidence on the panel but the fact that she was not only a student pursuing three majors at Wits University she was also the Lead Concept artist at Chroma Pixel Games , a game studio based in Zambia. In grade 10 I took art as a subject. My art teacher was a huge inspiration to me.

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Top 10 Tools Every Game Developer Needs  

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In this piece, we shall be looking at the best 10 tools to use for game development, including tools to make art, code, and music. These tools allow the artist to create stunning cinematic features and gameplay sequences without the need for any specialized engineering knowledge. You can use it for both digital paintings and pixel art.

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Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene

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Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. These games shaped my love for art and real-time graphics. Check them out below: Video.

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Making Lucid with Eric Manahan

Game Dev Unchained

This time, the narrative revolves around Eric Manahan , the former architect who found solace in pixelated characters and captivating storylines. The pixelated game wasn’t just beautiful, but it was also a product of a single developer. Pen and paper, sketching ideas out, then translated them into pixel art.”

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NVIDIA Research: Learning and Rendering Dynamic Global Illumination with One Tiny Neural Network in Real-Time

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This is a challenging task, even in cinematic rendering, because it is difficult to find all the paths of light that contribute meaningfully to an image. Solving this problem through brute force requires hundreds, sometimes thousands of paths per pixel, but this is far too expensive for real-time rendering.

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How to become a 3D Lighting Artist

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Annotations by Edu Martin from their blog ' Lighting Pixels ') Point lighting Point lights (sometimes called omni lights) are similar to spotlights, but emit light in all directions from a small, single point — like the light you get from candles, fairy lights, or a firefly. Three-point lighting in action in Disney's Tangled.

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