80 LEVEL·4yAdobe Will Acquire Figma for $20 Billion
Art by Vijay Verma Adobe has announced it will acquire the collaborative design platform Figma for approximately $20 billion. Dylan Field and Evan Wallace began working on Figma in 2012, now the app is popular among designers and developers. The transaction is expected to close in 2023.
80 LEVEL·4yMicrosoft to Buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
Microsoft announced they decided to acquire Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The company also announced plans to add Activision’s games to Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft notes it will be the "third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony" when the deal is closed.
80 LEVEL·4yA Fan is Remaking Need for Speed Underground 2 in Unreal Engine
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80 LEVEL·4yAI Model That Turns Sign Language Into English In Real-Time
Gupta says she was inspired by Nicholas Renotte's video on real-time Sign Language detection. Her mom asked her "to do something now that she's studying engineering," she says. Gupta is now studying engineering at the University of California, San Francisco. She says she hopes to one day work in the field of sign language detection.
80 LEVEL·4yLogo Rank: AI System to Help with Logo Design
Logo Rank is an AI system developed by Brandmark that considers your logo and helps with its design. The tool is trained on over a million logo images to give you tips and ideas. It can also be used "to see if your designer took inspiration from stock icons"
80 LEVEL·4yCheck Out This Amazing AI Real-Time Feelings Detector
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80 LEVEL·4yA Deepfake Version of Keanu Reeves Made With MetaHuman
YouTube channel Not Face Video Studio has created a stunning deepfake of actor Keanu Reeves. The authors used Unreal's MetaHuman tool, as well as its Mesh to MetaHuman feature. A rough 3D model was then refined with DeepFaceLab, a renowned app for creating deepfakes.
80 LEVEL·4yAn Extremely-Realistic Portrait of Ana de Armas
Ana de Armas is a Cuban-Spanish actress known for her roles as a holographic AI projection in Blade Runner 2049. Xie Boli used Maya, ZBrush, Mari, Substance 3D Painter, Marvelous Designer, Arnold, NVIDIA Omniverse, and textures from 3D Scan Store.
80 LEVEL·3yFan-Made Need for Speed Underground 2 Remaster Shifted to UE5
Fan-Made Need for Speed Underground 2 Remaster Shifted to Unreal Engine 5. New engine allows team to have more stable in-game physics and a more predictable simulation. New demo also showcased performance upgrades, car customization menus, new steering and MacPherson Strut.
80 LEVEL·4yReal-Time Clothing Change Effect Made in Unity
Indie Game Developer and VFX Artist Sakura Rabbit continues pushing the boundaries of what we consider to be possible with yet another mind-blowing project. This time, the creator has managed to create a magical-looking clothing change effect that allows her to change the attire of her digital characters in real-time.
80 LEVEL·4yTerra Nil: An Upcoming Reverse City Builder
Terra Nil is an upcoming game by the developers of Broforce Free Lives and Devolver Digital. The developers describe the game as a "reverse city builder" with the goal of building not a bustling city but an ecological paradise. The game is set to be released in early 2023.
80 LEVEL·4yA Cool Farming Game Concept Made in Blender
Nara, a well-known Concept Artist from South Korea, has unveiled a new fantastic project. This time, the artist created a series of cool game concepts that depict a Stardew Valley-style farming simulator. According to the artist, the project is made in Blender, Photoshop, and Clip Studio Paint.
80 LEVEL·4yBlizzard Is Making a Brand-New Survival Game
Blizzard is developing a "brand-new survival game for PC and console" The team said the game will be set in an all-new universe, unrelated to existing games. Blizzard is the developer and publisher of StarCraft, World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch.
80 LEVEL·4yGame of Thrones Characters Created by AI from Book Descriptions
The pictures were generated based on the books' descriptions of the characters and then edited in Photoshop. They were created by Reddit user lettuceown in Artbreeder – a machine learning-based art website that uses GAN models to generate and modify images. Take a look at these portraits of characters from the books.
80 LEVEL·4yThe Beast Titan from Attack on Titan Recreated in 3D
3D Character Artist Bassem Wageeh has recreated the Beast Titan from the anime and manga series Attack on Titan. According to the artist, this character was created to dive deep into new character art techniques, especially hair grooming. The titan was sculpted in ZBrush, textured in Substance 3D Painter, and rendered in Arnold.
80 LEVEL·4yUsing AI and AR to Create T-Shirt Designs
Shopify's Russ Maschmeyer demonstrated one more practical application for text-to-image AIs. The new prototype is capable of creating t-shirt designs from speech prompts said by a person. At the moment, the prototype cannot generate images in real-time.
80 LEVEL·4yNFT Sales Declined 92% Since Its Peak in September 2021
NFT sales fell by 92% to a daily average of about 19,000, compared to a peak of about 225,000 in September 2021. NFT of the first tweet from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was purchased in March 2021 for $2.9 million. In April 2022 it was offered for no more than $14,000 at auction.
80 LEVEL·4yGraham McNeill Is Working on League of Legends MMO
Graham McNeill is best known as the author of many novels in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. McNeill joined Riot Games in 2015 as a senior narrative writer. He has contributed to the stories of Caitlyn, Azir, Elise, Kai'Sa, and many other Runeterra characters.
80 LEVEL·4yStunning Photorealistic Characters Made in Blender by Mania Carta
Japanese 3D Character Artist Mania Carta has unveiled a new collection of digital influencers made entirely in Blender. Not much information was shared about the working process behind them, but we've already contacted Mania to conduct an interview and learn more about the workflow. And here are the renders:
80 LEVEL·3yOpenAI's ChatGPT Can Generate Python Scripts for Blender
Blender's Michal Kalisz has shared the results of an experiment with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Michal produced two scripts for Blender, one for selecting an object with more than 20 triangles and one for adding a Bevel modifier. The AI managed to produce working results, which you can check out below.