Fiction, music and visual compositions are art mediums, naturally the combination of them would also be art. But the actual question is if Games (Game systems) can be art on their own. Is Tetris art? Independent of the catchy music and the visuals? …

In this post I will cover some of the stuff I learned doing the art direction for Puzzling Places. …

In this post I will cover some of the core Blender Geometry Nodes concepts I used in my stylized scene generator and procedural geometry. I will cover some concepts like ray casting to create trees, extruding faces to create cliffs, working with splines to get roads and passing on info…

Some books change you in various ways. I had the pleasure of reading these in 2022. The list includes everything from comics, programming, art, history, game design, etc. Depending on your reading interest, some might bring the same joy to you too! There are way too many books I read…

In this article I will cover a beginner friendly intro to art direction for video games. Using practical examples from games already out there, I will help you take your first steps to improve the visuals of your projects and give you further resources on how to best continue learning…

In this post I will cover a method of animating various different small objects in vertex shader with different pivots in a single draw call in Unreal Engine 4, based on the work done in Puzzling Places. Making a game for mobile comes with a series of challenges. One of…

Creating painterly art style in games and preparing assets for NPR (non-photorealistic rendering) requires more than just fancy shaders. In this post I will cover what I learned from my 3D painterly style studies made as scenes for Sketchfab. A while ago I turned a watercolor painting to a 3D…

An introduction to mathematically generate the sound waveforms and create any sound you wish with endless variations — This post will cover how to generate sounds procedurally — by constructing the waveforms mathematically, using sinus waves — in Unity 3D and C#. The end goal is to synthesize a procedural piano, which you can play using the keyboard. …

A short break down of the use of several VFX tricks in my latest scene. This includes setting up a stencil portal, dealing with render order issues, as well as mixing baked and procedural animation, stylized ghosts, volumetric fog with lighting, flames and texturing of the scene. As usual, you…