To keep the game free, Riot Games designs and offers “skin bundles” — replacing the in-game models with unique animation

Truthfully, I gave myself a month to learn 3D, but spent about half that time actually doing anything. Some animations would take hours to render, and during that time, I’d just leave my setup and go do something else.

Inspired by the music video from before — I animated type with Figma, using one of the iridescent experiments as a background. This was my first time having a use case for GIFs in Figma and I think it turned out pretty well.

Stories are relatable — they give life to a product and make it engaging. Without stories, all we have are facts. And facts speak to your mind, but stories speak to your heart.

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To illustrate my point, I went back and made some changes to the Figma and Sketch render. I added Adobe XD and moved the subjects along the Y-axis, giving them their own visual hierarchy.

Sure — there were some apps and products done in this style, but most notable, widespread uses were in some Samsung ads and in the MKBHD intro video. So not any full products, but rather smaller elements which proves my thesis that this style can work if used scarcely and if the objects on these backgrounds still hold their structure and readability without the decoration.

Although the changes I made to the donut weren’t entirely small, you get an idea of the work ethic behind successful people like Zach King — and it motivates you to push things just a little further.

I took things at my own leisurely pace — playing video games, watching shows on Netflix, spending time with family, etc. What I’m trying to say is, please remember to take breaks! It’s important to look after yourself especially during these times.

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ngular’s capabilities have been questioned due to new frameworks. In most cases, SEO support, the size of the framework, updates, and the learning curve are the general concerns that people have about Angular. If we just consider Angular, these things do not seem to be large issues. But when we learn about frameworks like React or Vue, we feel that these things can be achieved easily by using them.

One of the most useful things I’ve learned throughout this journey, is how to make a product backdrop. If there’s ever a need for product photography, this is a great alternative if you don’t have access to a studio.

There is a new style on the block right now and it’s growing in popularity. While Neumorphism was imitating an extruded, plastic surface (but still looking like one layer), this new trend goes a bit more vertical. It’s most defining characteristics are:

I made this using mostly — modeling techniques from the donut tutorial. While experimenting, I found the shrinkwrap modifier, which allowed me to layer the white and red parts onto the orange mesh.

This render is inspired by the expression glass cannon. Using the glass dispersion shader from before, I re-skinned one of the in-game gun models. For the background, I layered one of the maps behind the gun model to match the perspective of the player.

I came across this video where VFX artist, Zach King, brings up “the extra 10 percent”. After filming each set, they (the team) ask themselves if there’s anything (small) they can do to improve the work.

Last year I unintentionally started the craze around Neumorphism, but as I predicted then, it didn’t really take over the design scene. In that very first article, I also mentioned all the potential accessibility problems this style faces, which hopefully helped all the other articles raising accessibility issues that year :-)