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Realistic Environments in Cryengine

Joe Garth shared some of the amazing workflow details, which helped him to fit scanned assets so naturally into the digital landscape.

Procedural Arctic Forest Environment Production

3d artist Ilari Lampinen talked about the way he managed to build a whole procedural arctic biome with some clever programming.

Making 3D Scene Your Low Poly Canvas

Dragos Matkovski did a little talk about the way he creates fantastic low poly games with Unity. 

Cyberpunk Scene Production with Unity & Blender

Environment artist Maarten Hof showed how he modeled and painted an incredibly detailed environment.

Filling the Scene with Mood and Color

Kyle Hall gave a detailed breakdown of his lovely environment, which features some very neat lights and beautiful colorful skyboxes. 

How to Build Cracked Ice in Material Editor

Ali Youssef talked about the way he builds a pretty good-looking ice shader in Unreal Engine 4.

Making Light Work in Sci-Fi Scenes

Amazing 3d artist Jack Kirkham talked about the way he creates awesome sci-fi environments. A deeper look into materials, creation of cloth and use of lighting.

Amazing VFX guru Benoit Onillon did an amazing breakdown of his real-time visual effect experiment and showed how it all works. This project was created as part of the contest The Great Transmutator competition, sponsored by PopcornFX. You can download the file as well, and play around with the finished product.

Romain Durand talked about the way he created fantastic stylized assets for a new game Renegade Line. Excellent results and a very neat approach.

Industries of Titan - an Industrial Sim Made of Voxels

Take a look at a game called Industries of Titan — an industrial city building sim/strategy game, set on Saturn’s moon Titan. The project will let you create a sprawling industrial city, design powerful factories, and compete with other Great Houses to stake your claim to the Industries of Titan. 

A Houdini Procedural Modeling/Texturing Tutorial

Hugo Beyer released a video tutorial that discusses a different approach to creating a prop. No sculpting or painting by hand.