Hideo Kojima believes that many of his works, including Metal Gear, Snatcher, and Death Stranding, received universal recognition only a few years after their release as at first "almost no one understood" them.

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Tech Art Director and Founder of Overdraw.XYZ Ryan James Smith demonstrated a custom fluid solver plug-in created with Unreal Engine 5.1.

Details: https://80.lv/articles/a-custom-fluid-solver-plug-in-made-in-unreal-engine-5-1/?utm_source=telegram

Have a look at Otoshi no Shima, a UE5-powered indie game with unusual visuals created by a small group of Japanese developers.

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Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone announced the 1.5 update delay and received an overwhelming amount of support from the fans in return.

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3D Character Designer known as G.Zhao has presented a new awesome model of a girl created in Unreal Engine 5 using Marvelous Designer, Maya, XGen, and Substance 3D Painter, and Epic Games' MetaHuman.

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Die Hard and Vikings: Valhalla screenwriter Jeb Stuart revealed that he is "no longer involved" in the upcoming Assassin's Creed Netflix series.

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KeenTools has released a stable version of GeoTracker for After Effects – a plug-in for 3D object tracking that allows doing match-moving tasks and offers a pin-based approach to control the model.

Link: https://80.lv/articles/keentools-geotracker-for-after-effects-officially-released/?utm_source=telegram

The sales of Factorio, a construction and management simulation game from the Czech studio Wube Software, have surpassed 3.5 million copies.

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Curious Archive released a video essay discussing Rain World and its complex virtual ecosystem, procedurally generated animation, and complex AI.

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Square Enix reaffirmed its plans to focus on blockchain games and shared that it will reveal more such projects in 2023.

Details: https://80.lv/articles/square-enix-to-continue-focusing-on-blockchain-games-in-2023/?utm_source=telegram

NASA is exploring the possibility of using AR in its future spacesuits. The AR solution should be able to provide access to information without communication with the Earth as well as withstand radiation, dust, and extreme temperatures.

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During the CES 2023 event, NVIDIA unveiled the upcoming RTX 4070 Ti GPU and revealed a new series of laptops powered by RTX 4000 series.

Learn more: https://80.lv/articles/nvidia-unveils-the-rtx-4070-ti-gpu-and-rtx-4000-laptops/?utm_source=telegram

Have a look at Big Sister, an Arcane-inspired character animation created by Aleksandr Ladosha in Maya, ZBrush, 3DCoat, and Marmoset Toolbag.

See more: https://80.lv/articles/an-arcane-inspired-character-made-in-maya-zbrush-3dcoat/?utm_source=telegram

Freelance Voxel Artist Niklas Mäckle showed a detailed voxel art animation of Edinburgh's North Bridge created with MagicaVoxel.

More renders and info: https://80.lv/articles/an-impressive-voxel-animation-made-with-magicavoxel/?utm_source=telegram