How Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age Recreated Extinct Creatures with VFX

3D Character Artist Shares a Jinx Fan Art Made with ZBrush & Blender

3D character artist Eugene Roienko recreated Jinx from Arcane season 2 using ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, Blender, RizomUV, and Maya. Starting from a sphere with no base mesh, he sculpted stylized proportions from scratch. To achieve the iconic Arcane look, he used Blender's hair particle system with a custom shader for a 2D appearance, and rendered separate passes (albedo, AO, hard shadows, emission) composited in Photoshop rather than relying on traditional 3D rendering.

Check Out This Flapple Poison-Type 3D Reimagining Made in Blender

3D artist Amed Alexander Bueno Rodríguez created an animated reimagining of Pokémon's Flapple as a Poison-type character using Blender, ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, and Nuke. The project draws on Pokédex lore, replacing the mud bomb move with a purple liquid to reflect the Poison-type visual identity. Two rendered camera angles and process videos are shared.

Artist Shares Real-Time Snowfall System Built with Three.js & WebGL

Nhà phát triển Chiro Visuals đã chia sẻ hệ thống tuyết rơi theo thời gian thực mã nguồn mở, được xây dựng bằng Three.js và WebGL. Hệ thống này bao gồm các yếu tố như tuyết rơi theo thể tích GPU, tinh thể băng lấp lánh, mặt hồ, và shader tích tụ tuyết bằng FBM noise trong không gian thế giới. Nó hỗ trợ nhập mô hình tùy chỉnh để điều khiển tương tác tuyết và có sẵn trên GitHub.

Nếu bạn muốn khám phá cách áp dụng hiệu năng GPU và kỹ thuật shader tiên tiến để tạo ra cảnh vật lý thực tế như tuyết rơi trong game hoặc ứng dụng web, bài này sẽ là nguồn tham khảo lý thuyết và thực hành không thể bỏ qua.

Sculpting a Digital Athlete: Capturing Stefanos Tsitsipas Beyond the Court

A detailed breakdown of the 3D production pipeline used to create a digital character of tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas for an interactive website. The workflow covers photogrammetry scanning with ~70 cameras, UV optimization to consolidate multiple textures into a single set for WebGL, rigging via Mixamo, cloth simulation in Marvelous Designer, hair sculpting in ZBrush, texture baking with Redshift and Substance Painter, and animation optimization using shape keys. Key challenges included compressing a 14-day production into a tight schedule, replicating Tsitsipas' serve motion frame-by-frame, and exporting optimized animated models with cloth simulation for real-time WebGL rendering.

Substance 3D Painter Tool For Generating Highlight Masks

Nyanneco Position Mask is a free Substance 3D Painter generator by Nyanko that creates highlight masks for hair and other patterns using Position maps. It generates lines and shapes based on spatial data to produce highlights. Users should note it is sensitive to UV layout, particularly overlapping UVs, and its internal blur does not cross UV islands, which can cause visible seams. It is free until July 5 and supports commercial use, with a Japanese tutorial video available.

Check Out These Free Crowd Reaction Mocap Animations

Anderson Rohr has released his June free mocap animation pack, featuring approximately 6 minutes of crowd reaction animations across 22 clips. The pack supports three skeletons: Rokoko Default, Reallusion iClone, and Manny for Unreal Engine 5. Animations cover actions like clapping, cheering, swaying, posing, and texting, suitable for games, cinematics, VFX, and other 3D projects. The pack is available for free on Gumroad.

Tutorial: Build Full Dungeon Crawler In Godot

The GameDev Tavern has launched a free 20-hour YouTube series teaching intermediate game developers how to build a complete 3D dungeon crawler called Goblins' Den in Godot from scratch. Spanning 20 episodes released on a MWF schedule, the course covers node-based state machines, composition models, ragdoll physics, shaders, pathfinding, lighting, and level design. All assets — textures, models, rigs, animations, music, and sound effects — are created within the course itself. The full project code and assets are available on GitHub under the MIT License.