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In 2021 there are an amazing number of free (and often open source) alternatives to commercial graphics applications, such as Adobe’s suite (Photoshop, Animate, Illustrator, Premere, Substance and more) and other applications like Autodesk’s 3DS Max and Maya. The following is a list of freely (as in beer) available applications. […]
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There is a new graphics bundle of interest to game developers, the Mighty 2D Game Dev Assets Bundle over on Fanatical. This is a collection of royalty free game development assets from the GameDev Marketplace and they include both sprite and vector rendered versions when appropriate. Many of the character
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NVIDIA have just released the second edition of Ray Tracing Gems. It is a book from a wide variety of industry experts (NVIDIA, Intel, Pixar, Epic Games, Remedy, Roblox and more), with 50 chapters on a wide variety of raytracing related subjects. Even better, the digital version of the book
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Game Dev Arts Megapack Bundle. This bundle is a collection of graphics, sprites, icons, UI elements and backgrounds for creating games. As with all Humble Bundles this one is organized into tiers. Buy a higher dollar value tier
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It seems like every single major 3D application are getting behind Pixar’s USD format and NVIDIA have released Omniverse as an interconnect between all of these programs. The USD or Universal Scene Description is an open source standardized interchange format, described succinctly enough as: Universal Scene Description (USD) is an
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Material Maker is an open source project that recently released version 0.95. We have been monitoring the development of Material Maker for a few years now and it’s amazing how far this program has come in a very short period of time. Material Maker enables you to create materials using
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First announced back in February, MetaHuman Creator is a new online service for creating life like digital humans quickly and easily. Starting today, MetaHuman Creator is now available in early access. Using MetaHuman Creator you essentially create life like characters in a similar manner to creating your avatar in many
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Last year Unity acquired Artomatix creators of the AI assisted Art Engine application. This program aims to make the process of making game ready textures easier by automating tasks such as removing seams, creating mutated versions and more. At GDC 2021 this year Unity announced that ArtEngine is available until
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There is a new Humble of interest to game developers, the Game Dev, Design & Graphics by Mercury bundle. It’s a collection of ebooks around the topics of game development, graphics and design from Mercury Press. Be careful though, several of these books have been in previous bundles. As with
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Tilengine is a C99 based open source game engine/framework for creating retro or classic style games, such as those from the SNES or Genesis era. We first covered Tilengine way back in 2017 then again in 2018 when it was open sourced. In the 2 1/2 years since we lasted
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