Interview

Frédéric Arsenault prepared a detailed breakdown of his workflow going through all the steps that might be especially helpful for beginner and intermediate level artists.

Tristan Meere did a breakdown of his environment art piece Zero Leagues made during CGMA's course Vegetation and Plants for Games and talked about modeling, shaders, and lighting.

Dominika Bariakova did a huge breakdown of her awesome cyberpunk character, Hydra, shared her workflow of going from the concept to a full 3D character, discussed body and hair creation and mentioned some useful tutorials on the character production she relied on. 

Kids With Sticks team talked about the production of their recent stylized scene which turned out to be the starting point of their new game inspired by Ghibli. You can learn even more information in their recent blog post.

Ivailo Ivanov talked about the production of his project Tognatale that replicates the likeness of Ragnar Lothbrok from Vikings and discussed character art in general.

Andry "Dedouze" explained how he deals with hand-drawn animations in Blender using Grease Pencil and other tools.

David Gao described the process of creating a Mystique skin transformation effect from X-men in Houdini.

Tarik Takasu did a breakdown on his awesome stylized character Rose, discussed his career path, shared his approach to the visual language of the character and talked about achieving the balance of the style and working on details. 

Erasmus Brosdau, CEO and Director at Black Amber Digital, shared his experience of directing and producing high-quality realistic cinematics and reviewed various technologies used in production: Motion Capture, Real-Time and Offline rendering, Deep Learning systems.