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Plask is a new web based service for easily creating 3D animations from a simple video source. Simply upload the video (or record from webcam directly in Plask) and apply it to one of their rigged characters (or upload your own) and Plask will use AI to create a 3D …
Quixel have just acquired RD-Textures and have finished incorporating their library of scanned textures into the Megascans library. Epic Games acquired Quixel back in 2019 and since have made the entire Megascans library free for Unreal Engine developers (and cheaper for all others). In fact, Unreal Engine 5 has Quixel …
Kenney of Kenney.nl fame has released another tool, Ship Mixer. ShipMixer is a browser based application that enables you to quickly kit bash together SHMUP style jets and airplanes by mixing and matching different shapes of different colours. There is also Creature Mixer, we did a video on when it …
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Today we are looking at using Character Animation Combiner to make working with multiple Mixamo animations easier. Mixamo is a free service that has thousands of animations and tools for easily rigging your own characters, which was purchased by Adobe back in 2015. It is perhaps one of the easiest …
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Raylib is an open source C/C++ powered framework for game development we first covered way back in 2016. Since that time Raylib has grown in popularity and recently released Raylib 4.0 with a ton of new features and functionality. In addition to the game development framework however, there are also …
Agama Materials is a free application for Windows PCs that enables you to both create procedural materials using a node based approach like Substance Painter, as well as paint on 3D models like Substance Designer. It is simply a matter of creating a material, either from existing PBR textures, or …
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GitHub have just launched an interesting new AI driven project, GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot is developed in collaboration between GitHub and OpenAI and is using artificial intelligence to support the developers. Instead of just being a better Intellisense, Copilot actually creates code dynamically using machine learning, based off comments or …
SpookyGhost is a cross platform procedural animation tool made using the nCine 2D C++ game engine and the ImGui UI framework. SpookyGhost was recently released as free and open source under the MIT source license with the source hosted on GitHub. SpookyGhost enables you to easily create 2D animations using …
Bitmapflow is a new, open source animation tool created in the Godot game engine, that is used to create new frames of animation from a sprite sequence. These “inbetween” frames are created using one of two algorithms, SimpleFLOW and DenseRLOF. Bitmapflow joins a growing list of tools, such as Pixelorama …
Twine is an open source tool for creating interactive text based games. Twine is an open source project, released on GitHub, under the GPL license. It is a combination of story authoring tools and logic/scripting for adding interactivity to your creations. Twine is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Twine …
