The penultimate month of 2021 is past. It is exciting to get focused on my current projects. There are so many opportunities to apply 3D design to the web. The free literature at the Interaction Design Foundation has been immensely helpful in increasing my understanding of the interaction design process. Let’s work hard this month and set ourselves up to kill it in 2022.

Industry

2K Acquired Elite3D

Activision Blizzard employees petition Kotick to step down

Can Inque Reinvent the Magazine?

Cloud Imperium to Launch A New Manchester Studio

Dezeen Awards 2021 Studio Winners

Epic Games acquires Rock Band maker Harmonix

Gala Games talks NFT games, art, and total independence as a superpower

IBC cancels Amsterdam event amidst escalating Covid concerns

Industry Beginner's Guide from Escape Studios

Mark Todd Osborne Added to Colorist Society Board

Metaverse Apps to Generate $3bn in Consumer Spending in 2022

Metaverse thought leaders tout visions at Nvidia GTC event

NVIDIA Omniverse Announced the Winners of Enter the Retroverse

Roblox bookings grow 28% to $637.8M for Q3 2021

State of CSS 2021

Study finds women are ‘invisible’ in visual effects industry

Teaching Artists to Code

The BBC leads again with 11 wins at the RTS Craft and Design Awards 2021

The Developer of Pokémon GO Raises $300 Million

The Modernist on A Decade of Making a Magazine

Thrift Shopping in the Metaverse

Unity acquires Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital

Unity is paying $1.6B for the Weta Digital tools that created Gollum

Unravelling VFX's Gender Problem

Welcome to the Metaverse… whether you like it or not

Why Papa John's Is Breaking With Fast-Food Tradition and Nixing Its Menu Boards

Zuckerberg's Metaverse is Only the Latest Chapter in Big Tech's Relationship with Architecture

Motion

10 Screenwriting and Story Tips from Robert McKee

A Realistic Pine Forest Biome Pack for Unreal Engine 4

After Effect's Composition Profiler Introduction

Anatomy of a Main Title: Diego Coutinho on Agents of Chaos Doc

Art Director vs. Copywriter

Building Assets for the Houdini Asset Gallery

C4D Xpresso: Using the Colour Temperature Node

Corona 8 Sneak Peak

Creating a Soviet Roentgenometer in Blender, ZBrush & Fusion 360

Creating a Spooky Vampire Lair in ZBrush, Substance & UE5

Creating Hyper Realistic Fabric Materials in Redshift for C4D

Creating Sova from Valorant with Blender, ZBrush & Marvelous Designer

Creating Weapons for Hunt Showdown

Discover your Complete Photogrammetry Workflow

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.1 in preview

Foundational Visual Effects

fxpodcast #335: Nuke meet Unreal, play nicely.

How to Make Responsive Auto-Scaling Elements in Ae

Go Behind the Scenes of 'Dune' and Its Deserts

HOOOLDESIGN Volumetric Showroom

Houdini Shockwave Tutorial

How mocap suits and accelerometers helped previs the stunts and VFX for ‘No Time To Die’

How to create a depth mask in Arnold

How to make SKIN TEXTURES in Substance Painter

King Richard Director Talks Post, Editing and Tennis VFX

Looping Particles in Houdini for Unreal

Magic Bullet Suite 15.1 – Unreal Engine Support for Magic Bullet Looks

Make a MetaHuman and more with new Unreal Online Learning courses

Making a Mechanical Sloth in Blender & Substance 3D Painter

Making a Mountain Valley Environment in Unreal Engine 4

Making a Procedural Quilt in Substance 3D Designer

Making an Antique Coffee Grinder in Blender, Substance & MT4

Master Procedural Texturing in Blender

Maxon 3D Motion Show November 2021

Multipass Renders with U-Render

Nomad Sculpt: Beginner's Guide Tutorial

PBR Bridge - How To Be Lazy & Focus On Your Art

Pixologic Releases ZBrush 2022

RE:Vision Effects After Effects Plugins Get Speed Increase

Report: time to invest in virtual production skills

SKS: Hard-Surface Texturing in Weapons Art

Substance 3D Livestream 2021

The War of The Worlds: Virtual Production with Unreal Engine

VFX Firsts: NLEs and digital film editing, with Evan Schiff

VFX Futures: The making of SideFX’s new renderer, Karma

VFX Notes: The art of matte painting and invisible VFX with Craig Barron

Watch Rodeo FX’s ‘Shang-Chi’ VFX breakdown

ZBrush brush sets from XMD Source

Interactive

Animated 3D Ribbons with Three.JS

Build React Three Fiber 3D Scenes

Convert Raster Images to SVG

Dynamic Color Manipulation with CSS Relative Colors

Ed Fries interview — From building games for the original Xbox to investing in gaming startups

Godot 3.4 ships

How JavaScript engines achieve great performance

Interactive Lotus-Shaped Art Installation Moves in Response to Light

Josh Comeau Custom CSS Reset

Make a 3D Spinning Logo with ThreeJs

Making Believable In-Game Horses for Red Dead Redemption 2

Niantic is mapping the world and warns about the future of augmented reality

Nikeland debuts on Roblox as its latest persistent gaming space

OpenAI makes GPT-3 generally available through its API

Property-Based Testing in Javascript

Property-based Testing in Javascript II

Ripple Effect with Three.JS

Solo Artist Turned Game Developer Creates a Game with Real-Time Tools

Tamagui Universal React App Styling

The Creator of ‘Pokémon Go’ is Creating Its Own AR Metaverse

The 8 factors of multiplayer gamedev in small-scale cooperative games

Interaction

12 useful Figma plug-ins

Aesthetics vs Functionality!

An introduction to the popular term: metaverse

Applying behavioral design to digital products

Be usable, not consistent, not uniform

Best Website Dashboard UI Examples for Design Inspiration — #125

Best Website Designs Of 2021 And What They Have In Common

Beyond Gamification: Why Game Design Is More Important Than Ever

Blog Page Accessibility Deep Dive

Case study: improving your website’s top header

Case study: UX writing at work

Design basics: Gestalt Principles

Design basics: Hick’s Law

Design has always been there.

Do designers belong in open source?

Dubai Expo Map

Facilitation Principles for UX Workshops and User Tests

Feeling new to UX? Five ways to unlock your early career success

Getting started in UX: Creating a portfolio.

Google UX Design Certificate vs IxDF Membership

Habits of great artists worth adopting

How do UX, CX, and Market Research Work Together?

How frustrating or delighting is your design? Let’s understand friction before all

How I found the perfect repository format for myself and my team

How I use automation to quickly transfer my designs from Figma to Webflow

How NOT to do UX

How the DoorDash Merchant design team uses ‘Crit Stickies’

How to animate interfaces in After Effects at the speed of light

How to become friends with personas?

How to build a UX design portfolio that stands out

How to create an audit of the User Interface?

How to review and use a wireframe

How to write effective user experience (UX) research questions

Interaction Design Foundation Bootcamp

Iterate, iterate, (…), and succeed: The importance of iterative design on a product lifecycle

Jeen-Yuhs CTHDRL Case Study

Learning UX Writing Through Daily UX Writing’s 15 Day Challenge: Day 1

PHP and Its Importance

Please Don’t Pay for UX Design Mentorship

Portfolio Presentation for UX Design Internship Interviews

Should you use Flat or Modern Design style?

The Product Management 101 Reading List

The RoadMap for Product (UI/UX) Designers

The Ultimate UX Portfolio Resource Guide

Tiny UI Toggle

Trying No-Code Tools as a Designer

Top Web Design and UI Trends for 2022

Typographic Hierarchy: What is it? How can you use it?

UI Interactions of the week #289

UI vs UX: Wireframing, Prototyping, and Design Thinking

UI/UX Design Trends Of 2022 You Need To Сatch Up To

UI/UX Design: 100% Remote Usability Testing with Maze

Ultimate UX weapons

Understand the difference between UX, UI, Frontend, & Graphic Design jobs.

User vs End-User (with an example)

Using psychology to improve your customers’ experience on your website

UX Writing: Chronicles of Typography

UX Design: Making of user flow

UX design? UI design? Product design? What’s the difference?

Want to become UX designer in 2022? Follow this 3-step formula.

What is Good Design?

What is user experience design: the importance of UX design and why you need it

What Users See Makes the Difference

When to (and not to) build an Ops-first Research Practice

Why do we need a Product Roadmap?

Why web design is dead

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