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Industry

80 Level Round Table: Forust on Developing and Marketing an Indie Game

Activision Blizzard Earnings Fall Short of Expectations

AMD Spent $2.8 Billion on Development

Amplication Builds Out Open Source Low-Code, No-Code Platform

Annotell raises $24M to develop data labeling tools for autonomous driving systems

Aviron raises $18.5M as it plans to expand its entertainment content

Behind the Best VFX Oscar Nominations

Bored Apes, BuzzFeed and the Battle for the Future of the Internet

Canon Discontinues EF Lenses and Patents Ludicrous Zooms

Companies Face a 37% Chance of Losing IP When Employees Quit

Epic Says Its Epic Games Accounts Cross 500 Million

Ethernal Labs Raises $20M for its Metaverse Gaming Studio

Facebook Gaming Marketing Insights Report

February Digest: Career Opportunities in the Game Industry

Framestore’s Color Team Joins Company 3 Roster

Freelancing - 10 Ways Developers Make Money Coding

Google’s Privacy Changes

Hasura raises $100M to Create GraphQL APIs for Databases

Hideo Kojima Launches His Own Podcast "Radioverse"

How Did This Team Make 'The Tragedy of Macbeth'?

Konami's Revenues Increased by 12%

Lost Ark Has Hit 1.3 Concurrent Players Since Its Recent F2P Launch

Lucasfilm Lynwen Brennan Recipient of VES Award

Mark Zuckerberg’s "Metaverse" Business Lost $3.3 Billion in Q4

Meta Scraps Next-Gen AR/VR Operating System And Reassigns Team

Meta’s VR Division Lost $3.3B on $877M in Revenue in Q4

New Dataset Shows AI Still Lacks Commonsense Reasoning

Nintendo’s 9-Month Sales Drop 6% to $11.52B

Pinterest Is Experimenting With AR Home Decor Shopping

PowerUp Acquisition Raises $250M for Gaming SPAC

Principles of Freelance

Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction' NFTs Are Put On Hold

Raydiant In-Store Digital Signage Lands $30M

RD-Textures Acquired by Epic Games

Roblox Bookings Grow 20% to $770.1M in Q4

SideFX Is Hiring for Multiple Projects

Speech Graphics raises $7M for Lip-Synced Facial Animation

State of Frontend 2022

Supercell Makes $852M on $2.24 Billion in 2021 Revenue

Tech Giants Have Invested Big in The Metaverse

Tech Giants Ruling the World

Tencent Acquires Nightingale Developer Inflexion Games

The Danger of Meta’s New Supercomputer is the Company Behind It

The EU’s Crusade Over Data Collection

Ubisoft Is Expanding La Forge R&D Network Across Five Studios

Unity Beats Expectations with Q4 Revenue of $315.9M, Up 43%

Unity Revenues Grew to $1.1bn While Losses Increased As Well

UX Conference May Announced (May 21 - May 27)

What Digital Twins Are and How They Help

Writing Helped Me Make More Than 10K USD in the Last 2 Years

Motion

Behind the Best Cinematography Oscar Nominations

Blender Setup for Creating Various Eyeballs

Cinema Grade Reinvents the Wheel to Make Color Grading More Intuitive

Creating a Post-Apocalyptic Concept Project in Blender and Photoshop

Creating a Retro-Futuristic Car in Blender & 3DCoat

Creating World of Warcraft-Like Diorama in Maya & Marmoset Toolbag

Devcom Art & Animation Summit: An In-Depth Talk on Houdini

Eric Litman Talks Editing The Hot Zone: Anthrax

Fundamentals of a PBR Workflow in Maya

fxpodcast #337: Photorealism for VFX, Visualization and Games

How David Fincher Crafts a Film from Your Obsessions

How Rodeo FX Made Eskel Leshy from ‘The Witcher’

How the Sandworms in ‘Dune’ Were Designed

How to Build an Infected System With Houdini

How to Create Real-Time Facial Animation for MetaHumans

How to Make a Tesla Coil Effect With X-Particles and C4D

How to Make Pen on Paper Effects in Cinema 4D

How to Use Python to Morph a Parametric Cube in C4D

In a World of Mostly Bad Things, Make Something Good

Inside the VFX of the Freeway Battle in ‘No Way Home’

Lost In Space VFX Breakdown Released

Realistic Face Made Using Maya & DeepFace Live

Reallusion’s Character Creator 4 and Digital Humans

Recreating the Athena Statue Using Photogrammetry, ZBrush & Marmoset

Screenwriting Lessons from M. Night Shyamalan

The Role of VFX in Games Explained

Tips to Becoming a Proffesional Lighting Artist

Tutorial: Making an Easy Caustics Effect in Blender

Ultra-Realistic Female Portrait Made in ZBrush & XGen

Unreal Engine Digital Twin Data Visualization

Unreal Engine Fantastic Glass Shader

Unreal Engine Game-Ready Faces Using Photogrammetry

Unreal Engine Helping Design Healthier Spaces

Unreal Engine Metahuman Facial Mocap

Unreal Engine Pixel Art Shaders

Unreal Engine Real-Time Fluid

Unreal Engine Stunning Flying Ice VFX

VFX Firsts: What was the first composite done in Nuke?

VFX Futures: What it’s like to work on the VFX for a Super Bowl spot

Watch Scanline’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ VFX reel

Interactive

Are you nervous about transitioning from startup to enterprise devops?

Array Data Structures in Javascript

AWS Open Source News and Updates, #99

AWS Open Source News and Updates, #100

Basics of Node.js & Express

Build a Notification Center in React App Using Engagespot

Color Blending with CSS Blend-Modes

Creating Users on DynamoDB with Step Functions

Data Analytics Lens – AWS Well-Architected

Data Structures & Algorithms in JavaScript

Deep Reactivity in Svelte

Design Principles for High Scale Applications

Does Solidity optimizer avoid changing storage variables?

Graphics Programming Weekly - Issue 224

How I Structure React Components

How to Enact a Component Loop in React

How to Generate 3D Facial Animation from Text Using ML

How to Perform Speech-to-Text and Topic Detection with Python

How Contribute to Open Source Projects on GitHub

HTML Basics #1: Elements and Attributes

Industrial IoT Architecture Patterns

Introduction to Python Data Structures and Algorithms

Introduction to Data Structures

Introduction to Modern JavaScript

Introductory Guide To Concurrent Rendering

Kubernetes Ingress Concept and Ingress Controller

Mesmerizing Sheep-Herding Simulation Made with Unity

Optimizing Lists in React - Solving Performance Problems and Anti-Patterns

Pseudo Classes in CSS (:visited)

Python Embedded Functions

React Hooks Explained

Rendering 3D Scenes with Three.js

Rust and Web Assembly

Rust Ownership and Borrowing

Rust Zero-Sized Types

SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Emotions in VR

Stop Installing Node.js and Global Npm Packages

System Design Interview: An Insider's Guide

Template Method Design Pattern

The Anatomy of HTML

The Only React and React Native Template You’ll Need

The Unwritten Svelte Stores Guide

Understanding Layout Positioning with CSS

Understanding Webhooks

Using Custom Cursors with Javascript for a Better User Experience

Virtualization Fundamentals for Containers

Weekly Web Development Resources #109

What are the legality and myths of web scraping?

What is Software Development Methodology?

What is the difference between encryption, hashing and salting?

Why Devs Should Build with Design Systems

Why Linux Is Better For Programming

Why Use Principal Component Analysis?

Interaction

“I want to be in product when I grow up.” Said No One Ever

App Design Inspiration — #45

Applied Psychology: Gestalt in Design

Archetypes in Design

Backward Design for Product Managers

Becoming a Serial Designer and Idea Explainer

Biomimicry Approach to Designing for Stampedes Prevention

Boxmoji: The Trending New Aesthetic

Branding Digital Products

Computational Design in the Shadow of Modernism

Decision-Making Toolkit for UX and Product Designers

Designers, want business leadership to take you seriously?

Disruptive Product Design, According to Jenine Lurie

Entropy in UX Design

From Architecture to UX Design

Guide for Designing Voice User Interfaces

Historical Instances in Which Data Visualization Saved Humanity

How cheese, snails, Christianity, underwear, and eyeglasses all contributed to the rise of the modern book

How I Became a Self-Taught UX Designer in Hong Kong with No Experience

How I Became a UX Evangelist by Accident

How Product Managers and Product Architects Interact Matters

How to Break-Out of the Grid

How to Get UX Writing Approved by Stakeholders

How UX is like Journalism

Immersive vs. Frictionless: Getting the Experience Right

Introduction to Orchestrating Intelligent Journeys with User Intent Graphs

Job Hunting for a Product Designer Role in Toronto

Keys to Socializing Your UX Work

Learning from My Transition to Content Design

Let’s Talk Design Systems

Majors & Minors to Get into UI/UX

Modular Design Process: A Brief Intro

Must-Read Authors And Their Books On Design

My 15 Years in Building Products

Neuroergonomics: Towards a New Paradigm of Product Design

Not Only Metaverse. UX Trends 2022

Product — Stop Saying “NO”!

Pushed for Quantity, Evaluated on Quality

Redesigning Design Hiring

Relation of Product Design and Management

Running My First Design Club

SEO Tools You Need for Your Next Audit

SEO Writing Techniques Every Writer Needs to Know

Taking Risks Inside the Design Process

The Lean Product Playbook — Achieving Product-Market Fit

The Secret Government Plot of Perforated Products

The UX of Hades: Why we keep running from hell and back

Things Not To Do When Building Your First Product

Types of Professional Roles in UX Design

Understanding Typography: Leading or Line-Height

UX + Data Science = Smarter Decisions

Watching The Olympics In VR Should Not Be This Hard

Wear Your UX Unicorn Badge with Pride

Website Dashboard UI Examples for Design Inspiration — #138

Why I Switched to Figma from Adobe XD

Why is the World Full of “Bad” Design?

Why Product Designers Must Write

Why Product Development Needs to Change With the Times

Why Product Thinking is the Next Big Thing in UX Design

Why You Should Script a Tarantino Movie When Designing Interactions

Words for a New Reality

Your Former Career Gave You UX Superpowers

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