New Krita 5.0 released.

Here's some good news for graphic artists, see the official website.

Published 23rd December, 2021

Krita 5.0 is here!

This is a huge release, with a lot of new features and improvements. Some highlights:

The way Krita handles things like brushes, gradients and palettes, as well as tagging, has been completely revamped. The new system is much faster, uses much less memory and is much more dependable!

Gradients have been improved: they are much more smoothed and can handle wider gamuts.

The smudge brush engine has been completely rewritten, and we’ve got a new brush engine, based on MyPaint

The Animation system has been overhauled, with both user interface improvements and new features, such as clone frames and animated transform masks

Krita now has a built-in storyboard editor!

There’s a recorder to create a video out of your painting sessions

In the last video on the official channel you can see how they worked in the past on some new improvements ...

Sketchfab 2021 Year.

In this article you can see a good review of the Sketchfab online tool.

This was a big year for Sketchfab! As 2021 draws to a close, we’re pleased to share a recap of the last 12 months and offer up some personal highlights from the Sketchfab Community Team.

Sketchfab Holiday Greetings 2021 by Sketchfab on Sketchfab

Google’s New AI from Two Minute Papers.

The title for this video is: "Google’s New AI: This is Where Selfies Go Hyper!"

Magical Christmas Night by Renderforest.

Turn the Christmas lights on with Magical Christmas Night! Introduce your logo with the holiday spirit. Simply upload your logo, add a festive music track and invite your audience to a magical world. Perfect for corporate greetings, thematic video openers, holiday video messages and many more. Hurry up to feel the Christmas spirit for free today!

You can see this template on this youtube channel.

NARAKA: BLADEPOINT Bruce Lee Crossover from Epic Games.

Online game shooter from kirka.

It's December, James and Elizabeth put on their new outfit and we decorated the logo for Christmas. Also, kirka staff, contributors, content creators will now get the verified badge and we fixed a few bugs and issues.

You can try this game online on this website.

This is a simple demo for my website.

The Matrix Awakens from Unreal Engine.

The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience’ here!

To download this new UE5 tech demo on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Finnaly C-IPC and more from Two Minute Papers.

Lately I've been looking to post something new in the field of graphics and games. You don't even have to look too hard, because now you can see a result of the new achievements. Here is a video that outperforms them all.

See this document on this webpage.

Monster Mash online tool for 3D.

The development team come for this online 3D tool with this intro:

Monster Mash is a new sketch-based modeling and animation tool that allows you to quickly sketch a character, inflate it into 3D, and promptly animate it. You can perform all interactions in the sketching plane. No 3D manipulation is required.

This tool come with three basic steps and modes of creation: Draw, Inflate, and Animate.

Just draw and use these steps.

You can find many tutorials on youtube, let's see one example:

News : CopperCube 6.5 released.

CopperCube 6.5 was just released for Windows and Mac on 2 December 2021.

You can see all new changes on the official webpage.

You can see a good video from the Gamefromscratch youtube channel.

News : Blender release version 3.0 .

Today, 3December 2021, Blender Foundation announces the release of Blender 3.0, to mark the beginning of a new era for open source 2D/3D content creation.

You can see all features reel showcase on the oficial youtube channel:

Simulating A Virtual World from Two Minute Papers.

This is a simulation of a virtual word build with The paper "Synthetic Silviculture: Multi-scale Modeling of Plant Ecosystems" is available here:

The Captain from Epic Games.

Find your way home across the galaxy in this excellent comedy adventure game by our friends at Sysiac Games. Every encounter along the way has multiple endings. Collect new friends. Make new enemies! The decisions are all up to you. You are... The Captain!

See the official trailer from youtube channel:

Resources and 3D models - 001.

You can find many resources on web, in this article I will share a link to this user named Crazy31139.

You can find many 3D models, like Robocup, Rambo, and characters from many games.

CodePen: ... challenges every time.

This website comes with challenges all the time, see this week example:

THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE,Book Text ...Your challenge: Give this book excerpt some tasteful text styles.

Here's what I managed to do for this week:

CodePen: How can share sketchfab 3D models.

The Viewer API lets you build web apps on top of Sketchfab’s 3D viewer. With the API, you can control the viewer in JavaScript. It provides functions for starting, stopping the viewer, moving the camera, taking screenshots and more.

See the official webpage.

Ubisoft: Elite Vigil Trailer.

Chul Kyung’s quiet lethality in the field allows him to rely on his Electronic Rendering Cloak (ERC-7) to remain undetected. The ERC-7 uses Diminished Reality technology to remove perceivable stimuli from its direct environment. Vigil carries a prototype in his backpack, which scans surrounding electronic devices and wipes his image from any cameras in view.

Another new AI from Two Minute Papers.

Approximate Differentiable One-Pixel Point Rendering is a new differentiable neural rendering pipeline for scene refinement and novel view synthesis see the official page and the video from Two Minute Papers.

Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Refinement from Two Minute Papers.

This is a unoffical implementation about Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Refinement(SR3) by Pytorch.

There are some implement details with paper description, which maybe different with actual SR3 structure due to details missing.

We used the ResNet block and channel concatenation style like vanilla DDPM.

We used the attention mechanism in low resolution feature(16×16) like vanilla DDPM.

We encoding the $\gamma$ as FilM strcutrue did in WaveGrad, and embedding it without affine transformation.

Read more on the GitHub project.

SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering by Brian Karis.

Brian Karis is an Engineering Fellow in graphics at Epic Games. Most recently he has led the development of Nanite for UE5. He is most known for work on physically based shading and temporal anti-aliasing although has touched most areas of real-time computer graphics throughout his career. Prior to Epic he worked at Human Head Studios.