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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 2d

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Finn Bogaert's Medieval House - UE5 Environment! This scene is an extremely faithful recreation of the wonderful concept by Junhyuk Yoon, with multiple weather scenarios on the full post below!

Check it out: buff.ly/LHh0Q0Q

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 3d

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Franek Leszczynski's "The Growth" Environment! This is a masterclass in composition, lighting, and conveying mystery and mood through storytelling!

Check it out: buff.ly/loki0WP

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 17d

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Recently, Geremia Merzari shared their wisdom on the workflow used to texture the props for a Crash Bandicoot-inspired project, in a Dinusty Empire Article, talking all things stylisation!

Check it out: buff.ly/iMMRaSd

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · 22d

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring André Felipe's Urban Resistance Environment! This was a great result from André challenging themselves to make an environment in one texture for mobile! Love the style going on here.

Check it out on Artstation: buff.ly/PxGZ8Ev

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Empire has been busy...

Blockouts are being finalized, gameplay systems progressing and full art production is underway. 👀

Keep posted for more updates on our Community Project: Audit 13 as we move into Phase 3!

Read more here: buff.ly/HAlnmnP

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Aug 28

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Adam Dencker's "The Curator's Daughter "! This project is a great showcase of Adams' texturing skills, with some lovely props and foliage in a well-composed shot!

Check it out on Artstation: buff.ly/mLLMQcG

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Aug 27

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Sady Fofana's Botanical Research Facility! Compositionally, this scene is really strong with some lovely foliage and hard surface assets.

Check it out on Artstation: buff.ly/dlYi6WA

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Aug 15

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Franek Leszczynski's Fisherman House! This scene is full of atmosphere and mood, with some nice storytelling points and a great video render to show it all off!

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/YHT2LTV

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Aug 8

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Artemy Belzer's 'What a View' Environment! There is a real sense of scale and wonder in this scene, with some great composition and lighting!

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/8duvQ40

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Aug 7

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Melissa Kumpmann's Cosmea Plant Study! These flowers look great up close and afar, and the full post shows a great timelapse of the full process of creating these lush foliage!

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/EDTIoAS

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jul 31

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Zian Hsu & Paul Tsi's Shinjuku Station collaboration! The material definition in this scene is spot on, and it's paired with great lighting and composition!

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/Pxs8Tai

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jul 30

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Kirill Shornikov's "Venezia Nova" Environment! This scene is beautiful, with stunning lighting and composition and lots of high-quality assets, with some great breakdowns on the full post!

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/0JtmNWu

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jul 23

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Justin Colombini's Warding Temple! This environment is jam-packed with awesome architectural and organic elements, paired with a great composition and storytelling!

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/tfrPosZ

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jul 22

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Eric Rogers Stone Wall Material! This is an excellent tileable material with real attention to detail that has gone into matching the reference, from of one of our Shogun Elite members.

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/kC8tE8d

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jul 18

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣
New Article featuring Giora Nohl, with a focus on the strategies used for managing assets, avoiding burnout, and staying on track!
Check out their artistic journey on their latest project: Racing Time!

Check it out: buff.ly/7wfabc8

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jul 9

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Melissa Kumpmanns 'Garden Diorama Art Test'! This scene is a real showcase of Melissas foliage and composition skills in a lovely, lush diorama that just makes you want to walk around it!

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/uHOrnUF

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jul 8

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Joppe Stijfs Franchi SPAS 15! This is an excellently modelled and textured gun, with great material definition and lots of awesome tiny details.

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/SJNTj4w

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jun 26

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Sheila Alessandrini's 'Cinque Terre' Environment! This scene is a lovely showcase of great props, lighting and shader work with some really nice breakdowns on the full post below.

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/Hk8wDbi

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jun 20

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Finn Bogaert's Wind Town! This is a lovely Stylized environment that is full of life and story! Really nice vibes all around 😄

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/evxbNl2

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jun 19

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Martin Martschenko's 'Present Moment Farm'! This piece ticks all the boxes, with great composition, texturing, lighting, and prop work from one of our long-time community members! 👌

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/3eNzGsw

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jun 10

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Anand Shukla's Project Autumn! The daytime scene is so vibrant and inviting, while the nighttime shot really catches the Arcane Zaun vibe 👌

Check it out on Artstation buff.ly/Itc7wcX

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · Jun 6

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Freya Swartz's Library Cafe! The environment is full of life and story, with some excellently composed shots!

Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/6L58Nx

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · May 21

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Radim Jelíneks' Rose Window Sketch! The scene was created to showcase a trim sheet workflow, but the composition and rendering are just chef's kiss! 👌

Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/8BEKdn

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · May 20

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 A couple weeks ago Helena Hansen shared her wisdom on creating a project without a concept, in a Dinusty Empire Article! She goes in depth about picking a project, and handling scope and compositon.

Check it out: www.thedinustyempire.com/articles/for...

#GameDev #Art

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The Dinusty Empire @dinustyempire.bsky.social · May 7

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Chico Span's book on Creating High-Quality Vegetation for Games! The scene was created for Chico's new book, which showcases every step of the foliage pipeline for games!

Check it out on Artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/dy9Px3

#GameDev #Art

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