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Environment Artist Eric Tahiri shared a comprehensive write-up on creating the stylized world of Nexus, explaining how the waterfall was made, how the level's objects were blended together, and what techniques were used to guide the player.

3D Artist Vismay Soni shared an in-depth breakdown of the Stylized Leather Bag project, demonstrated the modeling, texturing, and rendering processes, and discussed the retopology process in Maya.

3D artist Ilya Cherkasov asked us to publish his diaries about his experience surviving in Mariupol and shared how learning 3D can help save your life during wartime.

3D Artist Serge Karpovs shared the method of recreating 3D printing and CNC patterns on 3D models and explained how Fusion 360 and Voxelizer were used to make the Glock 17 project.

This is the second part of Yuri Vorobiev's massive guide on setting up lighting for games in Unreal Engine. You can read Part 1 here.

The World of Tanks Blitz spoke about the major graphics overhaul introduced with the 9.0 update, explained how they relit the game's maps, and discussed the upgraded physics.

CG Artist Anton Tenitsky showed how 3DCoat's new feature of auto-exporting high poly textured meshes helped create the Modular Town project and explained how the Vox Hide, Blob, and Pose tools were used.

Senior Lighting Artist Yuri Vorobiev shared an enormous 2-part breakdown on setting up appealing lighting for games in Unreal Engine.

NVIDIA's Andrew Averkin has told us about the workflow behind the My Little Fairy project, discussed the scene assembly process, and explained how NVIDIA's Omniverse Create tool was used for texturing, lighting, and rendering.