Introduction Hi there, 80 Level readers. My name is Trung Duy Nguyen. I'm a 3D Artist from Vietnam with over 12 years of experience in the field. I've been based in Saigon throughout my career, and I started my personal 3D art journey in 2020. After a while, I found my niche in creating anime-inspired, cel-shaded art that imitates the look and feel of an...

Real-time natural disasters, a new vessel for navigating locations, a new character that will assist you along the way, and more. A few days ago, Kojima Productions released a video where renowned developer and Game Director Hideo Kojima talked about the upcoming game, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.  Unveiled at Sony's Play of State 2024, the game is slated for release...

    3D scanning tools developer Kiri Innovations has released 3DGS Render, an open-source tool for visualizing 3D Gaussian Splats inside Blender. The add-on makes it possible to import 3DGS scans of real-world objects in PLY format and manipulate them in real time inside Blender, rendering them with the Eevee renderer. A new technique for generating 3D scans from images of...

Made by Paul Martin Eliasz, the tool is set to launch in the near future. Paul Martin Eliasz, a Senior Technical Artist and well-known Unreal Engine enthusiast, has recently previewed an incredible procedural worldbuilding tool for Unreal Engine 5, set to be released in the near future. Powered by the engine's Procedural Content Generation (PCG)...

The splash screen artwork for Blender 4.3, created by Blender Studio. The Blender Foundation has released the public beta of Blender 4.3, the latest version of the open-source 3D software for VFX, animation, game development and visualization. Below, we’ve picked out five key changes, from Grease Pencil 3 – a major overhaul of Blender’s 2D animation...