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BEYONDGAMES.biz takes a deep look at Popul8: backed by over a decade of academic research and four patents. It builds on Didimo’s existing avatar creation pipeline to speed up 3D game character creation while leaving creative control in the artists’ hands. It uses Didimo’s own fully-licensed data sources and does not rely on external tools or content.
wccftech explores a long-term challenge in the game industry: how many times did you play an open world game whose supposedly vast and realistic virtual worlds were actually populated by the same dozen character models, substantially taking away from your immersion? Popul8 boasts the ability to create countless unique characters at scale.
Generative A.I. is already changing how games are made. ..and can speed up the creative process in a labor-intensive industry plagued by delays. Smaller video game studios that do not have the resources to create generative A.I. tools are turning to start-ups for help, explains The New York Times.
80lv speaks with João Orvalho, Didimo CTO, about Popul8, Didimo's new AI-powered character generator and editor for game developers and character artists and the potential to change the game with this platform.
PreMortem Games explores how the use of AI in game development is revolutionizing the way games are designed and created and details how Didimo's Popul8 uses generative AI to help designers achieve their vision in tune with their game’s visual style.
If we want gaming to grow, it’s important to incorporate as many different voices, faces and perspectives to the landscape as possible. Didimo CEO Veronica Orvalho shares her perspective on the inaugural Gamesbeat's Diversity In Gaming Panel.
Game Developer highlights that developers want to work faster and do fewer mundane tasks yet retain creative control of their product. AI brings some key advantages and some challenges. But one solution was featured - what does a more ethical AI tool look like? We spotted one that seemed to solve the dataset-driven issues: Didimo.
Gaming is being radically transformed by Generative AI.
Andreessen Horowitz takes a look at how artists are now creating high-quality assets in a matter of hours that would otherwise take weeks to generate by hand. Our friends at Scenario are highlighted, too.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already ubiquitous in the video games industry, and the advent and maturity of generative AI tools signal the creation of unique and compelling experiences, alongside economic benefits, for game developers in the coming years.
Games Beat lays it out clearly: 3D avatar creation is normally lots of work. The more accuracy and complexity required, the longer it usually takes. Didimo’s proprietary cloud-based platform is significantly more cost and time effective for customers. Instead of days, Didimo pulls it off in about a minute.
Our friends at Kinetix outline the leading AI technologies coming together to create characters that truly represent people in games and immersive worlds.
WIRED shares how Roblox is testing a tool that could accelerate the process of building and altering in-game objects by getting artificial intelligence to write the code.