In this post I will cover how to color the penumbra in light bakes in Blender 3D. This effect was inspired by the concept art for Valley of Gods’ concept art. The now cancelled In the Valley of Gods title by the developers of Firewatch had some gorgeous concept arts…

Part of video game art direction is clear communication. However overoptimizing for an immediate unambiguous reading of your message can make the aesthetic of your game suffer and reduce the playfulness of your visuals. Whenever I talk about art direction, I always emphasize three points. I focus on legibility, emotional…

Combining simple mathematical functions, you can paint beautiful images, practice your maths skills and wrap your head around how to program for SIMD style concurrent programming. This painting was done as a demo for my talk in Codetalks 2023. You can find the code on my Shadertoy, and a recording…

I will cover how to use look up tables, aka LUTs in the fragment shader of the object’s material to make a day night transition or adjust the feel of your scene. …

Creating a procedural Chinese landscape painting in Blender 3D using geometry nodes and Voronoi noise. As usual, you can find the nodes under the MIT license for free use on my Github: https://github.com/IRCSS/Procedural-Chinese-Landscape-Painting-Blender-3D You can also find an colored example of a model the system generates on my Sketchfab, or…

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. …

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…