And following our Natsura Presentation.... we have Sigge Sandström hosting a masterclass on procedural tree creation in Natsura as well at 9:00PM CET August 6th! See you there! 😄

Join us on August 6th at 8:00PM CET, for our fourth week of Dincon Digital! This time we have George Hulm and Feike Postmes hosting a presentation on Natsura, a total conversion mod for Houdini geared towards plants and foliage modelling. 🪴 See you there! 😄 buff.ly/7q8wtdp

And following our panel talk.... we have Hugh Chew hosting a talk on layered material workflows at 9:00PM CET July 30th! See you there! 😄 buff.ly/hsLpwBw

Join us on July 30th at 8:00PM CET, for our return to Dincon Digital after a small break! This time we have Jacob Norris, Laura Dilloway, Javier Perez and Miroslav Baev hosting a panel talk on career journeys and difficulties! See you there! 😄 buff.ly/hsLpwBw

Join us on July 9th at 12:00PM CET, for our second day of Dincon Digital talks! This time we have Alwyn Hunt, who will be sharing the importance of fundamentals in 3D Art! See you there! 😄

We are super excited to announce.... DinCon Digital 2026! 🎉 Over the span of 6 weeks from July 2nd - August 20th, we will be hosting a plethora of talks from some familiar Empire faces, to guests from our Industry, covering all things game art, careers, tooling and production! See you there 👀

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today, we're featuring Natallia's Stylised Pumpkin house! This is a lovely stylised scene with some great assets, from a recent Mentor of DiNustys! Check it out: buff.ly/oW10PT3 #GameDev #Art

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Piotr Pinderak's Offroad Car! This is an extremely well optimized car for the quality it hits! Really nice texture work on this one! Check it out: buff.ly/V2TqfE0 #GameDev #Art

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Michael Khinevich's Winter Tower Scene! This is a beautiful scene with some lovely stylized assets, and it's composed very well. Check it out: buff.ly/ldOT99h #GameDev #Art

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring Kris Catteau's UE5 Procedural Flesh Generation tool! This is an awesome Houdini tool that adds creepy, procedural organic flesh meshes to any environment. Super nice work! Check it out: buff.ly/RGyYfAS #GameDev #Art

Empire Community Spotlight! 📣 Today we're featuring our very own Nick Hofbauer "Art Nouveau Door" Diorama! This is an excellently crafted and textured, small-scale scene to show off a variety of skills. Love it! Check it out: buff.ly/ffjbd02 #GameDev #Art

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 #GameDev #Art

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 #GameDev #Art

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 #GameDev #Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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