Friday Animation Fun: Alfred Imageworks’ Counter Strike 2 online cinematic

| Games, Showcase | 17/05/2013 15:11pm counter_strike

Watch the fast-paced CGI animated promo piece for Counter Strike Online 2 created by the talented artists at Alfred Imageworks for South Korean developer Nexon and read about the pipeline used to create it…

Blur Studio on The Elder Scrolls Online cinematic

| Games, Showcase | 12/02/2013 16:20pm Breton_FinalModel_0514_02

Watch six minutes of dynamic CGI, then go behind The Elder Scrolls Online film with Blur Studio’s Senior CG supervisor Jerome Denjean

How Psyop created animated webisodes for Dishonored

| Games, Showcase | 28/11/2012 10:47am dishonored_psyop

Find out how Psyop and Rokkan created the engrossing, animated prequel series ‘The Tales from Dunwall’ for Bethesda Softworks and Arkane Studios’ multi-platform title Dishonored…

Borderlands 2: Cause and effects

| Features, Games, Making of | 19/09/2012 11:41am 3dw160interviewgearbox1

Jim Saunders, director of VFX and technical art at Gearbox Software, discusses the whizzes and bangs that help bring chaos to Borderlands 2

Behind the scenes: Borderlands 2

| Features, Games, Showcase | 18/09/2012 16:10pm 3dw160featborderlands

Gearbox Software’s Borderlands used a bold concept art-inspired graphic style. Now Mark Ramshaw takes a look at the game’s sequel, which boasts richer visuals, more variety… and more guns

Cool VFX: Rogues Gallery on the Hawken game trailers

| Games, Showcase | 21/08/2012 14:45pm hawken_1

Watch the teaser then take a behind-the-scene look at Rogues Gallery’s visual effects work for Hawken’s latest game trailer

Project showcase: God of War: Ascension

| Commercial, Games, Shorts, Showcase | 10/08/2012 15:40pm 3dw158projects5_4

Imaginary Forces created a liquid world in which to promote Sony’s upcoming Playstation epic

The making of Unit Image’s Zombi U trailer

| Games, Showcase | 05/07/2012 10:00am zombie u

See how Unit Image created this amazing CG trailer for Zombi U and read how it was created using ‘freeze time’…

One-texture environment created with UDK

| Games, Showcase | 02/04/2012 16:47pm Lab1

Discover how 3D artist Tor Frick created a realistic scene in Unreal Engine 3 using a single 256×512 texture. Now that’s what we call impressive!

Bioware’s Mass Effect 3: Take Earth Back trailer

| Games, Showcase | 09/03/2012 16:38pm Mass Effect 3 trailer

Remember the phenomenal CG trailer that Bioware released a few weeks ago? Don’t worry if you missed it: as Mass Effect 3 goes on sale in the UK, we take a look at Bioware’s cinematic for the final installment of the massively popular RPG

Platige Image’s Witcher 2 trailer and making of video

| Games, Showcase | 09/03/2012 14:56pm Witcher 2

Watch the jaw-dropping animation in the trailer for the The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Then catch Platige Image’s ‘making of’ video too…