Inspiration Art Direction in Games: A Story of Research and Iteration Graduate student at Full Sail University and aspiring Game Designer, Hugo Bouvet, shares his tips to improve art direction for multi-player games, based on his entry to the Rookie Awards 2022.
Inspiration Creating a Seamless CG Integration for a Still Life Scene If you are looking for inspiration to create a seamless CG Integration for a still life scene, 3D Artist and PIXL VISN graduate, Dominik Benz, shares his tips and tricks.
Learning A Guide to Creating Modular Environments in Unreal Engine Student at Breda University of Applied Sciences, Máté Válent, shares details about his Highly Commended Rookie Awards entry, with tips for creating a modular environment using Unreal Engine for your own portfolio.
Learning Building a Stylized 3D Environment and Shot in Unreal Engine Ethan Clark, a final-year student at Gnomon and 2022 Rookie Awards Finalist, gives an in-depth look at how he brought to life a stylised environment in Unreal Engine.
Learning Creating an Epic 3D Environment for your Game Portfolio In this article, Sebastian Bubu-Oppenheimer, an Environment Artist at Rocksteady Studios, will share how he created his dark soul's inspired environment for his portfolio.
Insiders Guide A Learning Journey: Studying at FX ANIMATION Barcelona 3D & Film School Santiago Cabrera gives us the Inside scoop on studying VFX at FX ANIMATION Barcelona 3D & Film School
Learning Unreal Engine 5: Tips for Taking Your 3D Environment to the Next Level In this article, you will find out how my detailed planning and creative thinking process helped me to strive for this highly-detailed Unreal Engine 5 Project.
Inspiration How to Make a Realistic Animated Insect : From Pre-Production to Final Rendering From pre-production to final rendering: Learn how to bring your own realistic 3D insect to life with animation.
Inspiration ArchViz: Creating a Stunning 3D Interior in Two Weeks 3D Illustrator and student at School-ing, Sebastià Mercadal, shares the process for creating his stunning and Highly Commended 3D interior render for the Rookie Awards 2022.
News Using Robotic Cameras and CG Animation to Take to the Skies (and Space) befores & afters go behind the scenes of two UTS Animal Logic Academy shorts exploring the intersection between analogue and digital animation.
Inspiration Recreating a Sci-Fi Character Concept in 3D using a Real-Time Pipeline In this article, Alsu Rakhimova explains how she created her recent piece “No home left to love” based on the concept by Jude Smith; covering the main steps she followed from gathering references and sculpting, to rendering.
Learning Create a Quirky Robot in 3D Discover how to use Adobe Substance 3D apps to create a fun and colourful 3D robot.
Learning How to Make Concept Art for Video Games Milijan Popovski is a recent graduate and intern at M3DS Academy. In this article Milijan dives deeper into the process and ideas that helped him make stunning concept art for the video game he collaborated on with fellow students.
Inspiration A Guide to Creating a Famous Likeness in 3D Markus Gruner, a student attending Think Tank Training Centre online, shares his process for creating a famous likeness in 3D.
Inspiration Beginner's Guide to Creating a Game-Ready 3D Creature from Scratch Recent graduate and now instructor at M3DS Academy, Mario Stojanov, shares his beginner's guide to creating game-ready 3D creatures from scratch.
Inspiration Simple Game and Level Design Tips to Enhance Your Game Graduating at Bellecour Ecole and aspiring to be a Game designer, Hugo Bouvet, shares his tips to improve gameplay based on his entry to the Rookie Awards 2022.
Learning Affinity Designer vs. Adobe Illustrator: Which One Is Better For Motion Design? One of the hardest things about creating motion graphics is figuring out what software is best for your needs. In this blog, we'll talk about the pros and cons of Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer to help you figure out which one works best for you!
Learning 10 Digital Art Tips to Make You Draw Better and Faster Tom Skender runs us through his top ten tips for every digital artist, using Photoshop CC on a Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 to demonstrate them all during a speedpaint of Pokemon’s Nessa.
Learning Texturing in Mari: An Artist’s Path to Storytelling We sit down with Charli Holt to discuss how texturing plays a vital role in storytelling and why Mari is the perfect tool for students trying to break into the industry.
Inspiration 3D Character Modeling and Mastering Anatomy Using Maya and ZBrush Think Tank Training Online student and aspiring 3D Character Artist, Zoé Brening, shares her workflow and tips for creating an anatomically correct 3D character.
Learning Studying at a Fine Arts Atelier: New York Academy of Art If you are considering an Art Atelier for classical and technical training, this review of the New York Academy of Art, is worth the read.
Learning Design, Detail and Animation: Creating Custom Clothing with Marvelous Designer Nina Chernyshenko, a freelance digital artist from Ukraine, gives you the tools and tips to create 3D custom clothing for your portfolio, using Marvelous Designer.
Inspiration Cinematic Environments From 2D Concept to Final 3D Render In this article, Naja Jelec dives deeper into her workflow of bringing cinematic environments from a 2D concept to final 3D render using Maya, ZBrush, Substance 3D, V-Ray and Nuke.
Inspiration Little Hmong Harvester: An Expression of Feeling in 3D Recent Think Tank Training Centre graduate and 3D Character Artist, Houra Eshad, shares with us how she evokes expression and realism in her digital 3D piece: The Little Hmong Harvester.
Learning Bringing an Everyday Object to Life Using Maya and Adobe Substance 3D Giulia Greggio has a passion for bringing realism to her work, and in this article she shares how she does that with every day objects, using Maya and Adobe 3D Substance.
