Sahir Virmani

One more time for the people in the back

Shaking the bars of my enclosure, foaming at the mouth screaming:
HIRE MORE JUNIORS AND INDUSTRY NEWCOMERS YOU WON'T REGRET IT

Insane Spotify Deluxe Tier | Remixes?? YouTube video by Top Music Attorney

Spotify is going to allow "deluxe" premium users to remix your music with AI powered remix tools, and your distributors are updating their terms to allow that to happen

just FYI

youtube.com/shorts/ZbyvO...

A portrait shot of Viktor Antonov surrounded by concept art for Half-Life 2 and Dishonored

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov dies aged just 52

www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-...

Words cannot describe just how honoured and excited I am to be working with HouseMarque on their new game, Saros. It’s been an absolute highlight of my career getting to collaborate with this phenomenal studio, spending time in Finland, and bringing Arjun to life ❤️

The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed A year-long investigation by an indie journalist is a call to action

The Ugly Truth About Spotify is that Spotify hires fake bands to produce bland unmemorable pap and promotes the songs on the algorithms, reaping enormous profits while real artists get pennies.

I sat with Ted Chiang for lunch at NeurIPS yesterday, and someone working in AI brought up democratizing art-making. It was a candid chat and I know the guy didn't mean much by it—so I was like, hey, can I just say something?—I really hate the word "democratize" being used this way. Just say "automating art-making". It’s more accurate. Ted put it better than me and asked, "Do you say we should democratize marathon running? Why not? If you want more people to run, you don’t give them mopeds." We had an interesting conversation about the impact of word choice and then went to his afternoon talk, which was a full house!

This is the perfect analogy.
If you want more people to run, you don’t give them mopeds.
If you want more people to make art, you don’t give them image generators.
This doesn’t “democratize” anything

go.bsky.app/H9yJfCB

Resharing a great list of Technical Designers to follow.

How does Sword of the Sea achieve dynamic surfing on a hoversword over moving terrain?

Let's explore the Wraith's animation in this thread! 🧵

Wishlist on PS5: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...

or Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2453160/...

#SwordoftheSea #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

GitHub - Xibanya/ShaderTutorials: Shaders For People Who Don't Know How To Shader, a tutorial series for beginners! Shaders For People Who Don't Know How To Shader, a tutorial series for beginners! - Xibanya/ShaderTutorials

indeed yes github.com/Xibanya/Shad...

If you haven't touched SDF's as a VFX artist you should start looking into it, it's going to be your gateway into making visually interesting stylized effects without flipbooks. 🫰

Tools used:
🖌️Krita
📈MaterialMaker

#gameart #gamedev #vfx #rtvfx
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a black and white cat is playing with a laptop computer . Alt: Tuxedo cat types furiously on a Macbook

Want some quick tips about trailer editing? (movie or games!)

1 like = 1 quick tip

Reply with specific questions if you have them!

Getting Started on Bluesky - Game Devs

I've been sending this same list of tips to dev friends for a few weeks now and since a lot of folks are joining today, figure I might as well make it into a proper post

Hope it helps! 🧵  #GameDev

Finally here on 💙☁️! Any place would be better at this point, but I'm glad the game dev community is slowly shifting things over and I'm glad to be a part of that wave now!