A stop-motion animation that is actually a 3D scene 🐭 If you see this video for the first time you might think that's just another cool stop-motion project. The thing is you would be wrong. The animation was made by Reddit user TheCKLu in Blender. How cool is that?

Generating 2D-style explosions with lines in Blender 💥 Hiroshi Kanazawa shared a new demo of an anime-style explosion generator created with Blender's Geometry Nodes. The generator lets you control the explosion's starting frame, speed, and other parameters. It also allows you to attach explosions to an object in a scene.

Take a look at this crazy hair rig in Blender 💇‍♂️ Animator Banno Yuki amazes me once again. The artist shared a look at an incredible hair rig set up for an animation project. Everything is hand-made, it doesn't have a large number of vertices and doesn't use image textures. The creator noted it didn't take a lot of time to render the whole thing.

A new AI-powered tool captures facial animation from simple videos and web cameras in real-time 😲 Reallusion launched AccuFACE for iClone 8, their new facial tracker powered by AI and Nvidia RTX GPU. The biggest thing here is that the software lets you capture facial expressions from both webcams and simple video files.

Spider-Man's double web-slinging in Unreal Engine 🕸 gibb0 continues developing a Spider-Man project in Unreal Engine – the creator showcased double web-slinging with Spider-Man traversin between buildings with ease ready to take down more villains and save New York citizens.

Automated helmet-collision-avoidance system in UE5 ⚔ Haenir, an independent game development team, shared a new look at Blight: Survival, an upcoming cooperative action horror game powered by Unreal Engine 5. This time, the team introduced their automated helmet-collision-avoidance system."

Train driving simulator in UE5 🚉 Solo Game Developer Rizu shared a look at Running Train, an upcoming UE5-powered train driving simulator that is set in a fictitious Japanese rural railway, dubbed Takahashi-Hayama Railway. The project is currently in development and should be released via Steam and EGS.

A behind-the-scenes look at God of War Ragnarök's snow system ❄ Happy to share an interview with Paolo Surricchio, a Senior Staff Rendering Programmer at Santa Monica Studio, who explained how their team approached the snow system for God of War Ragnarök.

Drawing hands pixel by pixel, 1 million pixels to be exact ✍ Juhana Myllys, a Game Artist and Designer, shared an amazing new robotic hand that consists of one million hand-drawn pixels, with the artist describing the drawing as the largest asset to date. It took around 50 hours, a little over two days, to complete the project.

Customizable stylized ocean shader in Unity 🌊 Developer Sakura Rabbit tried out Unity's new tools for creating stylized clouds, oceans, waves, and whitewater. The creator shared a demo showing a customizable real-time NPR ocean shader.