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Dylan Garner explains how the hypnotic dark alley covered with ivy vines was created, talks about the long process of working on the foliage for the scene from sculpting separate ivy leaves to finalizing the vines in UE4, and shares some wise tips on how to avoid a "beginner look" in your first environments.

Walter Torezan Junior presents Vintage Prop 101: in a detailed breakdown, the artist explains how the initial shape of the antique phone was modeled, talks about how you can use Substance Painter to create smaller details of the props instead of only using it for texturing, and shares some great tutorials on Blender.

Aleksey Svischev has talked about designing characters for a canceled game Voices, shared the workflow in ZBrush, and explained how to combine realistic and stylized looks.

Silke Van Der Smissen shared an extensive breakdown of the Stylized Medieval Village project, showed us the Unreal workflow, and explained how it is possible to create a good-looking environment on a time constraint.

Viktor Colpaert told us about creating the Sinking Temple environment inspired by the Legend of Zelda fanwork, talked about modeling the scene, and shared various useful tutorials.

Dmitry Radushinskyi tells us the twisted dark backstory of a hunter named Eldritch Gunslinger Grimwald who got nearly insane in his search for wisdom, shares some great tips on working with references like a pro, and explains why Unreal Engine is one of the best tools for cinematic rendering.

3D Artists Narcis Calin and Emil Rasmussen shared a breakdown of their Undead Asylum CGI Cinematic, showed us their workflow, and explained the rendering process in V-Ray.

Pouria Roshan talks about the challenges of reimagining popular cartoon characters, explains how the scanning for the true-to-life version of Buttercup was performed, and shares some tips on texturing the characters to make sure they look good after rendering in Unreal Engine.

Denis Daraban takes us through the process of creating the robot army all the way from creating basic shapes in Maya to texturing in Substance Painter and rendering inside Unreal Engine, explains how to make baking quick and easy, and shares some other tips on optimizing the process.