News : EVE Online | Academy - Invention and Tech 2 Production.

Welcome to the Academy, Capsuleers. This video will guide you through the process of Invention in EVE Online, a process used to create more advanced Tech 2 equipment. Forge your path in EVE Online - http://eveonline.com/eve-academy

News : ASUS ProArtist Awards competition.

ASUS ProArtist Awards is a free-to-enter design competition that celebrates creativity in all forms from all brilliant minds. With the belief that distinctiveness sparks ingenuity, we are here to empower unique visions and push the limits of imagination in search of versatility and diversity in the world of creation.

Through this year’s topic ‘Explore beyond the Limits’, we hope content creators around the world can push the limits of creativity and let others see the world though their eyes. Submissions open for four categories - Photography, Graphic Design, Film, and Animation.

Submission & Public Voting: March 1st - May 15th 2022 
Judging: May 15th - May 30th      
Winner Announcement: June 15th 

Share your creativity with the world and win $100,000 value prizes!
...

Modding State of Survival with BlueStacks X.

BlueStacks X is the world's first cloud-based Android gaming service that lets you play games on any of your devices, without having to download them.

The game modding the short for modification, is the process of alteration by players or fans of one or more aspects of a video game, such as how it looks or behaves, and is a sub-discipline of general modding.

State of Survival is a zombie themed mobile game that requires players' team work and strategic thinking to survive in a post-apocalyptic world overrun with zombies.

You can see the game on this webpage.

News : Google Arts & Culture - Mali.

Google Arts & Culture come with a new approach Mali

You can read more on the official website.

Google Arts & Culture collaborates with cultural institutions, experts and artists around the world. Together, our mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere - which is made possible thanks to the contribution of our amazing partners.

Subscribe to discover exclusive series and for the latest exhibits and experiences available on Google Arts & Culture

Mali's magic is endless ✨ From the incredible story behind the rescue of the Timbuktu Manuscripts, to vibrant contemporary art, timeless mosques, intoxicating music and much more...

News : Blender 3D new release version 3.1.

Blender 3D has been released March 9th, 2022 with this intro:

Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.1, a solid update to an already outstanding release.

See more at the official webpage.

Online tool badge builder.

Badges or logos are often required in design and graphics.

An intermediate solution to a company logo or badge is to use a tool to create or generate it.

This is an online tool that can be used quickly with a very good output.

CodePen: Google visualization with GeoChart.

In this exameple I used visualization with GeoChart.

See the Pen Untitled by Cătălin George Feștilă (@catafest) on CodePen.

News : The last three videos from Two Minute Papers.

I have also presented this youtube channel in the past ... this makes introductions about artificial intelligence with all that it involves in processing and understanding how it works at least in terms of graphics.

Here are the last three videos that exemplify this fact.

News : EVE Online | Pulse – Friendship Week, Mining in NPE.

Welcome to another even newer look EVE Pulse from inside Jita 4-4! Start playing EVE for free at https://eve.online/youtube_pulse250222.

Jita 4-4 may be one of the busiest hubs in the universe, particularly for the capsuleers, but the eternal dominance of the circadian rhythm makes itself known even here.

The new system from EVE online revamps the New Player Experience known as NPE.

This video from the official channel show us how this works:

News : Real-time BIM collaboration with annotations.

On September 23, 2021 Revit to Unity Reflect: enable real-time 3D experiences, through simple and customized workflows, for improved design review and construction planning ...

Unity Reflect Review is a real-time, immersive design review solution for designers and architects to drive more collaborative design reviews.

This is the new video from Unity youtube channel about this feature:

News : Grand League Spring 2022 | Announcement Trailer | Trackmania

Trackmania Grand League is a Trackmania solo-competition hosted by Ubisoft-Nadeo.

According to the Wikipedia, this is a French video game developer founded in 2000. The studio is best known for creating the racing game series TrackMania. Other games developed by Nadeo include the Virtual Skipper series and ShootMania. Nadeo's latest game was TrackMania (2020), which was released on July 1, 2020. Since 2009, Nadeo has been a subsidiary of Ubisoft.

News : Rocket League Batmobile Trailer.

The Epic Games team comes with news about the latest news released on February 25, 2022:

Batman is back, and this time he’s got a whole new ride. Learn more here: rl.gg/Batman

The Batmobile has always been one of cinema’s most iconic cars, and the 2022 version is sure to be another instant classic. Get ahold of the sleek new Body, Goal Explosion, screen-accurate Reel Life Decal, and much more with The Batman Bundle, available in the Item Shop starting March 2.

News: Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser design.

Because this blog has a tag named design and according to the wikipedia: A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process, or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product or process. I will show this video about Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, the most immersive multi-night Star Wars experience in the world.

News : Dune Spice Wars - First Gameplay Trailer from Funcom.

If you liked Frank Herbert's Dune trilogy, then there's another game with the same storyboard.

You can find more about this game on steam.

Slay Workflow 6: Sequencer | Unreal Engine

In the final video in the six-part Slay Workflow series, we look at how Unreal Engine Sequencer was used to create shots within the final output. We also explore the process of modifying assets and setting keyframes with Sequencer, seeing all our changes update in real time.

News : The Batman: The Imposter from DC.

Yesterday, the new trailer for The Batman: The Imposter was released for the first time.

A brief introduction to the description of the video on DC's official youtube channel tells us:

Bruce Wayne’s mission as the Batman has only been under way for a year or so, but he can tell he’s making a difference. Unfortunately, he’s made some powerful enemies. All the traditional power brokers of Gotham resent the disruption the Batman has brought to town…and it seems one of them has a plan to neutralize him. There’s a second Batman haunting Gotham’s rooftops and alleys—and this one has no qualms about murdering criminals, live and on tape. “Batman: The Imposter” was written by Mattson Tomlin, with art by Andrea Sorrentino. Hardcover collector’s edition available on February 22.

Extract pantone colors from image.

The colors in the design and their significance, especially in the pantone colors, say a lot about design.

Short introduction:

Pantone LLC is a limited liability company headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey.[1] The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, notably graphic design, fashion design, product design, printing and manufacturing and supporting the management of color from design to production, in physical and digital formats, among coated and uncoated materials, cotton, polyester, nylon and plastics.

Here you will find an online tool that extracts this type of colors from images ...

News : News and Community Spotlight | February 17, 2022 | Unreal Engine

News : About CryptoPunks characters.

The CryptoPunks are 10,000 uniquely generated characters. No two are exactly alike, and each one of them can be officially owned by a single person on the Ethereum blockchain. ... Originally, they could be claimed for free by anybody with an Ethereum wallet, but all 10,000 were quickly claimed. Now they must be purchased from someone via the marketplace that's also embedded in the blockchain.

CryptoPunks were released for free back in 2017 and few days ago CryptoPunks Ethereum NFT sells for almost $ 24 million ... true or not, they exist and they work.

You can buy one from here.

This is one image with a CryptoPunks character:

Tessellation video from Two Minute Papers.

... another good video from Two Minute Papers:

News : Jared "Disco Lando" Huckaby on Sprint Stint Winter 2022

Jared "Disco Lando" Huckaby is the Creative Content Lead at Cloud Imperium, Los Angeles. He was previously Associate Creative Producer, and Content Manager before that.

You can read more on this webpage.

Visual computing with Matthias Niessner.

A fairly correct introduction ...

My name is Matthias Niessner and I am a Professor at the Technical University of Munich where I am heading the Visual Computing Lab!

I am also a co-founder of synthesia, a brand-new startup working on cutting-edge AI tech for visual effects and movie dubbing.

You can see the next video from the youtube channel:

Simulation from Two Minute Papers.

Scientific simulation has multiple objectives that allow us a correct and broader perception of the object of study.

Here is an interesting video about complex 3D simulations.

Use the scoop to install UFO: Alien Invasion game.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the scoop tool to install a game.

First, you need to add the bucket with the games.

C:\>scoop bucket add games
Git is required for buckets. Run 'scoop install git' and try again.
This install need the git, use this command:
C:\>scoop install git
...
Creating shortcut for Git Bash (git-bash.exe)
Creating shortcut for Git GUI (git-gui.exe)
'git' (2.34.1.windows.1) was installed successfully!
Notes
-----
Set Git Credential Manager Core by running: "git config --global credential.helper
manager-core"
Let's try again:
C:\>scoop bucket add games
Checking repo... ok
The games bucket was added successfully.
After install a software you can see it with this command:
C:\>scoop list
Installed apps: ...
With this command you can see all softwares can be install with this tool:
C:\>scoop search a
'games' bucket:
    0ad (0.0.25b)
    actools (0.8.2358.38968)
    adom (3.3.3)
    advanced-genie-editor (2021.3.15)
    amidst (4.7)
    amulet-map-editor (0.8.17)
    angband-dev (4.2.3-249-gbb7ea2dca)
    angband (4.2.0)
    ares (126)
    ark-smart-breeding (0.49.1.0)
    armagetronad (0.2.8.3.5)
    ascii-sector (0.7.2)
    assaultcube (1.2.0.2)
    assetstudio (0.16.8)
    augmentinel (1.3)
    blade-of-agony (c3)
    bombermaaan (1.4.0.627)
    ...

'main' bucket:
    1password-cli (1.12.3)
    abc (1.0.0-beta.3)
    ack (3.5.0)
    acmesharp (0.9.1.326)
    act (0.2.25)
    adb (31.0.3)
    ...
Let's install an old game named: UFO: Alien Invasion.
C:\>scoop install ufoai
Updating Scoop...
Updating 'games' bucket...
Updating 'main' bucket...
Checking repo... ok
The main bucket was added successfully.
Scoop was updated successfully!
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
The download not works from the first time and with some Enter keys typing I install it:
C:\>scoop install ufoai
WARN  Purging previous failed installation of ufoai.
Uninstalling 'ufoai' ().
'ufoai' was uninstalled.
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
ufoai-2.5-win32.exe (1.2 GB) [=====>                                            ]  11%
Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
URL https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ufoai/UFO_AI%202.x/2.5/ufoai-2.5-win32.exe#/dl.7z is not valid

C:\>scoop install ufoai
WARN  Purging previous failed installation of ufoai.
Uninstalling 'ufoai' ().
'ufoai' was uninstalled.
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
ufoai-2.5-win32.exe (1.2 GB) [==================================================] 100%
Checking hash of ufoai-2.5-win32.exe ... ok.
Extracting dl.7z ... done.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\ufoai\current => ~\scoop\apps\ufoai\2.5
Creating shim for 'ufo'.
Creating shim for 'ufoded'.
Creating shim for 'ufo2map'.
Creating shortcut for UFO - Alien Invasion (ufo.exe)
'ufoai' (2.5) was installed successfully!
The last command is to run the game: ufo.exe
You can see my video tutorial with same steps from my youtube channel.

AI video editing from Two Minute Papers.

The correctness of digital data can be questioned, but its alignment with user preferences and actual accuracy will always be an issue.

You can see also on example on this colab notebook.

News : Double Asteroid Redirection Test website.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test know as DART mission is directed by NASA.

NASA's first flight mission for planetary defense, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat.

You can see on this website a full 3D image of these asteroids:

A free ActorCore Motion package for everyone from askNK .

About askNK is a youtuber who has some videos about graphics, however here is something interesting ... Yesterday I saw this video from askNK.

News : Official video for Krita version 5.

This is the official video for Krita version 5 from the official youtube channel:

News : JAM Winter 2022 for development.

Here's a new opportunity for developers who know or want to develop games named Winter 2022 and is a JAM.

In this case JAM the official website tells us "A game jam is an event where participants try to make a video game as quickly as possible." or "Just a minute (JAM)".

Looks like there are no severe restrictions on this JAM.

I also wrote on my blog about the well-known python pygame package.

You can find more about this JAM on the official webpage.

How artificial intelligence distorts perception from Two Minute Papers.

Like any information by completing, omitting or modifying it, they can distort the perception of the recipient.

A fairly complete video on how to manipulate visual data with artificial intelligence.

Here is a video as complete as possible with examples of how artificial intelligence can distort the perception of what the user sees.

RELATIVITY by Guillaume Hulot.

This 3D Sci-Fi named "RELATIVITY" is created by Guillaume Hulot, Jules Rebuffat, Loic Remy, Loic Ciaux, Hugo Astesano, Benjamin Mathys, Victor Piquemal.

Adams is the first astronaut to approach lightspeed. Boarding the spaceship Myriss, he experiments regularly in order to analyze how such a speed will affect living organisms, until an exceptional event happens and changes everything.

CodePen: The pantone color of the year 2022.

The pantone color of the year 2022 is this.

See the Pen the Pantone Color of year 2022 by Cătălin George Feștilă (@catafest) on CodePen.

News : Today join NVIDIA at CES 2022.

CES (formerly an initialism for Consumer Electronics Show) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and NVIDIA youtuve channel come with this ...

Join us for this virtual event to see the latest breakthroughs in accelerated computing—from design and simulation to gaming and autonomous vehicles.

GDevelop and example games.

Now the team of this game engine comes with examples of games for users. This should be implemented in the promotion of any game engine. I have tested it in the past and I can tell you that it is very simple to use.

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: