CC Design Corner

To celebrate the collaboration between DJ Khaled and shoemaker Timberland, Champs Sports store and the well know agency AKQA revealed a new retro-style game called “Secure the Bag”. In this game, Khaled rides his time travelling ski trough tree different levels to make in time to the shoe big reveal. There are dinosaurs, Vikings and robots along the way. The game is also voiced by Khaled himself…

Min Lui is a Taiwanese motion graphics designer and animator, who earned her BA from National Taiwan University in Taipei and her MFA in Computer Art with  a mix of 2D animation and motion graphics from the School of Visual Arts,

NYC in 2013. She focuses on hand drawn cel animation since then.

Her style is unique and with a dark sense of humor. She plays with increased consideration for negative space and a strong color palette to create a special and impressive visual.

You can visit her portfolio to see the rest of her work at –

www.min-liu.com

ArcadeBlock splits into new Subcription Boxes #subacriptions #nerdblock #gamerblock #collectibles

I have been an ArcadeBlock subscriber for about 2 years now, the number of collectables and Pop vinyls that I managed to collect, the amount of really nice t-shirts I got makes totally worth it. Value for money is one of my favourite boxes without a doubt. The famous goodies geek games box just got divided into two new subscription boxes, GamerBlock E and GamerBlock M. Although both are…

Weekly dose of inspiration

Here are some of the coolest designs and art projects I came across this week.

Pixar in a Box - Behind the scenes of a Pixar animation #pixar #training #tutorial #animation #course

Pixar in a box is a collaboration between Pixar and learning platform Khan Academy, where they show us behind the scenes inside Pixar Studios. It gives an overview of what goes into the Pixar pipeline and the different stages needed to produce a feature animation. This is not a technical course that covers software and takes step by step to recreated something but instead is an inside view of…

Rebelion a Hitfilm Story #StarWars #RogueOne #Hitfilm #FilmMaking #VFX

Hitfilm released another of their fantastic shorts to showcase what it’s possible using Hitfilm Express the free version of their editing and VFX software. This time they were inspired by the Star Wars universe. The end result is quite amazing and shows us what’s possible with a free VFX package, Their short films are also accompanied by tutorials and behind the scenes to show us how we can also…

Allegorithmic announces Substance Academy #gamedev #gamedesign #gameart

Allegorithmic the company behind Substance Designer and Substance Painter, just announced Substance Academy. For those who don’t know, Substance Painter is a package that allows you to paint and texturing 3D models, it’s PBR base, letting you paint and texture AO maps, reflections and normals separately. It supports the major game engines like Unreal and Unity and can also export to platforms…

DMesh Triagulation Mesh Generator - #triangulation #mesh #lowpoly

In one of my recent searches for technics on low poly style art. I found a really cool piece of software called Dmesh. DMesh allows you to create low poly, triangulated style art with a few mouse clicks. It’s a stand-alone software, this means you don’t need to install it. You just download and use it. Files can be saved as Bitmaps, Vectors or .Obj, making it easier to adjust colour and details…

Houdini 16 Amarok Launch Event - #events #houdini #sidefx #gamedev

Side FX is troughing an event for the release of Houdini 16 here in London at Rich Mix Cinemas. So if you want to be the first to know about the new features on Houdini go here and reserve your seat.  

The Pinkest Pink #ShareTheBlack

Anish Kapoor, the guy that recently got a backslash from the artist community from seizing exclusive rights to the Blackest Black, and who were giving permission by the original creator’s NanoSystems to be the only artist to use it. Just got banned from using the Pinkest Pink by its creator Artist Stuart Semple. The World Pinkest Pink by artist Stuart Semple Although this didn’t prevent Anish…

Pixar Releases RenderMan 21 #Pixar #FindingDory #RenderMan

Pixar the amazing studio behind the recent movie Finding Dory, just released a new update to their render engine RenderMan. RenderMan was also used is films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Jungle Book, this proves that RenderMan can be very versatile and powerful in different environments. This new update contains some long-awaited improving to the render engine and also comes bundled…

We have a new Blue, Yay! #pantone #color

At the Chemical Lab of the Oregon State University, a professor of material science discovers a new Blue Pigment by accident. Blue pigment discovered at Mas Subramanian’s lab at Oregon State University   This might not look like a big deal, but it is. According to research, new types of inorganic (non-natural) pigments are not easy to find. Current Blue pigments are obtained from Lapiz Lazuli,…

Fixing games not launching after the Windows 10 Anniversary Update #RocketLeague #cs:go #Steam #Windows10

Finally… After 2 days of losing my patient and trying different stuff in order to get some games running. I manage to solve the problem. For some reason after installing the Windows 10 Anniversary update, between some other problems, some of my games decided not to work, including Rocket League and CS:GO. What happened, (or rather not happen) every time I tried to start the game trough Steam,…

The Superformula - How cool it is.. #Maths #games #coding #gamedev

According to Wikipedia the Superformula is: The superformula is a generalization of the superellipse and was proposed by Johan Gielis around 2000. Gielis suggested that the formula can be used to describe many complex shapes and curves that are found in nature. This means that any geometric shape can be generated with this “simple” formula, that is something really cool. Including generating 3D…

I’m Moving Home, I meam Hosting

It’s been a while since I last posted anything really, to be more exact, one of my last posts was in July, it’s been 6 months. It’s a lot of time, I know.

We are getting to the end fo the year, so it is time to clean up the house and take a look at what happen in 2016, and man, a lot of stuff happened, being professionally and/or personal, I did some stuff I set upon myself in the beginning of…

Pokemon Go finally in the UK #PokemonGO #uk #android #ios

If you’re on the many people that wasn’t able to sideload the apk or install it on you phone, I have great news for you.

Pokémon Go was just made available in the UK.

Run to the Google Play Store or the App Store and Go Catch ’em all!

You can also read my guide here, if you want to know more about Pokémon GO.

Good hunt everyone.