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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 2h
RTX 5090 reportedly discontinued: 32GB to 24 Leakers say the GB202 die is going to pro cards only. If the top GeForce becomes a 24GB 5080, GPU rendering loses the one card that held a heavy scene. #tech
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RTX 5090 reportedly discontinued: 32GB to 24
Leakers say the GB202 die is going to pro cards only. If the top GeForce becomes a 24GB 5080, GPU rendering loses the one card that held a heavy scene.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 15h
Blender 5.3 makes LoopTools native, in C++ The most-downloaded Blender add-on is becoming a core C++ operator. What that changes for retopology work, and why sources disagree on which release. #b3d #3dart
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Blender 5.3 makes LoopTools native, in C++
The most-downloaded Blender add-on is becoming a core C++ operator. What that changes for retopology work, and why sources disagree on which release.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Console prices hit $900 and nobody lowered the target spec US console sales are at their worst since the 1980s and a PS5 Pro costs $900. The fidelity target the art teams build against has not moved an inch, and reconstruction is what is covering the difference. #gamedev #vfx
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Console prices hit $900 and nobody lowered the target spec
US console sales are at their worst since the 1980s and a PS5 Pro costs $900. The fidelity target the art teams build against has not moved an inch, and reconstruction is what is covering the difference.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wing Commander 3: EA found the FMV source tapes Jim Vessella went looking for Command & Conquer's cutscene masters in 2020 and came back empty. Digitising EA's video archive turned up Wing Commander III's. #gamedev
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Wing Commander 3: EA found the FMV source tapes
Jim Vessella went looking for Command & Conquer's cutscene masters in 2020 and came back empty. Digitising EA's video archive turned up Wing Commander III's.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
WoW Forever classic models: the rig is the cost Blizzard added an SD/HD character toggle after beta pushback. Two mesh sets on one skeleton is cheap; the proportion complaints show where that lands. #b3d #3dart
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WoW Forever classic models: the rig is the cost
Blizzard added an SD/HD character toggle after beta pushback. Two mesh sets on one skeleton is cheap; the proportion complaints show where that lands.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yuriten cancels event over AI promo art Lilium admitted generative AI made Yuriten's teaser and its venue decorations, then cancelled the Ikebukuro kickoff. The exhibition itself still goes ahead. #anime
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Yuriten cancels event over AI promo art
Lilium admitted generative AI made Yuriten's teaser and its venue decorations, then cancelled the Ikebukuro kickoff. The exhibition itself still goes ahead.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Boyle's Ink: AI Thatcher over a real performer Thirty seconds of generative AI in Danny Boyle's Fleet Street drama. An impersonator played the Thatcher scene, then her face went on top. #vfx
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Boyle's Ink: AI Thatcher over a real performer
Thirty seconds of generative AI in Danny Boyle's Fleet Street drama. An impersonator played the Thatcher scene, then her face went on top.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
GameMaker games on 3DS: how Cinnamon does it A fork of the Butterscotch runner puts GameMaker bytecode on the 3DS and Wii U. Most of the labour went into converting textures and audio for the hardware. #tech
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GameMaker games on 3DS: how Cinnamon does it
A fork of the Butterscotch runner puts GameMaker bytecode on the 3DS and Wii U. Most of the labour went into converting textures and audio for the hardware.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
RizomUV 2027: headless mode, Python by default RizomUV 2027 runs its tools with no window open, on Linux, in Python. The unwrap-and-pack half of UV work can finally live on a farm. #b3d #3dart
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RizomUV 2027: headless mode, Python by default
RizomUV 2027 runs its tools with no window open, on Linux, in Python. The unwrap-and-pack half of UV work can finally live on a farm.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dark Arisen is the Dragon's Dogma 2 people wanted Eight verdicts average 8.5 across a three-point spread. Critics agree the new northern region lands; the randomised Relic gear is what divides them. #gamedev
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Dark Arisen is the Dragon's Dogma 2 people wanted
Eight verdicts average 8.5 across a three-point spread. Critics agree the new northern region lands; the randomised Relic gear is what divides them.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Unity Spark pays Asset Store artists. No rate yet Unity's prompt-driven editor builds from Asset Store assets rather than a diffusion model, and says artists get paid. The rate is not written down yet. #b3d #3dart
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Unity Spark pays Asset Store artists. No rate yet
Unity's prompt-driven editor builds from Asset Store assets rather than a diffusion model, and says artists get paid. The rate is not written down yet.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hellraiser Revival reviews split four points wide Six verdicts run from 4.5 to 8.5 on launch day. Every one of them likes how the Labyrinth looks. The argument is entirely about the fighting you do inside it. #gamedev
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Hellraiser Revival reviews split four points wide
Six verdicts run from 4.5 to 8.5 on launch day. Every one of them likes how the Labyrinth looks. The argument is entirely about the fighting you do inside it.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
GTA's car physics started as an Atari ST demo Pat Kerr wrote the vehicle simulation behind Grand Theft Auto over a weekend in August 1996, in GFA BASIC on an Atari ST. It runs in a browser now. #tech
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GTA's car physics started as an Atari ST demo
Pat Kerr wrote the vehicle simulation behind Grand Theft Auto over a weekend in August 1996, in GFA BASIC on an Atari ST. It runs in a browser now.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Moon on a Rainy Night: signing costs drawings CompTown's 2027 adaptation has a hard-of-hearing lead and no sign-language supervisor in either staff reveal. That one credit decides the drawing count. #anime
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Moon on a Rainy Night: signing costs drawings
CompTown's 2027 adaptation has a hard-of-hearing lead and no sign-language supervisor in either staff reveal. That one credit decides the drawing count.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Silver Pines review: rotoscope horror that lands Five verdicts average 9 across a two-point spread. Wych Elm rotoscoped and hand-painted its debut horror game, and that choice is carrying the whole thing. #gamedev
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Silver Pines review: rotoscope horror that lands
Five verdicts average 9 across a two-point spread. Wych Elm rotoscoped and hand-painted its debut horror game, and that choice is carrying the whole thing.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tripo P2.0: native quad meshes, 25,000 face cap Tripo P2.0 is the first AI 3D generator to output quad topology natively. Quads cap at 25,000 faces against 50,000 for triangles. #b3d #3dart
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Tripo P2.0: native quad meshes, 25,000 face cap
Tripo P2.0 is the first AI 3D generator to output quad topology natively. Quads cap at 25,000 faces against 50,000 for triangles.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Skydance's Warner merger closed with a downgrade The $111bn Paramount-Warner merger closed on Tuesday as Skydance. Two ratings agencies cut the debt first, and the 30-film slate pledge is binding. #vfx
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Skydance's Warner merger closed with a downgrade
The $111bn Paramount-Warner merger closed on Tuesday as Skydance. Two ratings agencies cut the debt first, and the 30-film slate pledge is binding.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
House of the Dragon VFX: 394 shots, six dragons Rodeo FX published its season 3 breakdown — 394 shots, six CG dragons, and around a hundred crowd shots inside the Battle of Tumbleton alone. #vfx
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House of the Dragon VFX: 394 shots, six dragons
Rodeo FX published its season 3 breakdown — 394 shots, six CG dragons, and around a hundred crowd shots inside the Battle of Tumbleton alone.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
DLSS 5 on Duke Nukem and Pong: no 3D to guide it Nvidia says DLSS 5 anchors to source 3D content and motion vectors. A DOS game in DOSBox supplies neither, so the model fills the gap from habit. #ai
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DLSS 5 on Duke Nukem and Pong: no 3D to guide it
Nvidia says DLSS 5 anchors to source 3D content and motion vectors. A DOS game in DOSBox supplies neither, so the model fills the gap from habit.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RuneScape 4 in Unreal Engine: the MMO part is new Jagex revealed RS4 at RuneFest on 3 October. The move to Unreal happened already, with Dragonwilds — a persistent world on that stack is the untested bit. #gamedev
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RuneScape 4 in Unreal Engine: the MMO part is new
Jagex revealed RS4 at RuneFest on 3 October. The move to Unreal happened already, with Dragonwilds — a persistent world on that stack is the untested bit.
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Gianluca Scattarella @gianlubackdrop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Manchuria Opium Squad resumes with a new artist Shikako died last November at 37. The series came back this week drawn by Tsurushima, who sat at the same assistant desk on Yasuhisa Hara's Kingdom. #anime
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Manchuria Opium Squad resumes with a new artist
Shikako died last November at 37. The series came back this week drawn by Tsurushima, who sat at the same assistant desk on Yasuhisa Hara's Kingdom.
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