YOU CAN NOW REMASTER ANY 2D GAME INTO A... 3D WORLD Pokémon Ruby defined a generation of top-down handheld gaming. 2D is fast and solo-friendly: tiles, sprites, simple animations. 3D has always been brutal modeling, rigging, lighting, LODs, and months of specialized work that kills most small teams. Mint shatters that One screenshot → instant coherent 3D worlds No more waiting for studios to invest a 2D game becomes 3D today.show more

was working on a small thingy of my own... but i really don't think i'd make anything of it, especially anytime soon. it's like an open world game, played in both 2d and 3d, where you can switch from 2d people to 3d people and help each other outshow more

3D $ANIME ? Using 3D in anime or a... complete series in 3D style, how does this affect the anime industry? Probably the most hated anime after which people hated 3D in anime was Berserk in 2016, it was really terrible, but 3D in anime is no longer what it was in 2010-20. Let's look at the pros and cons of 3D in anime and what series can be called good 3D anime Pros of 3D Animation: 🟢Dynamic camera angles & smooth motion 🟢Saves time & production costs 🟢Consistent character proportions Cons of 3D Animation: 🔴Can look stiff or "plastic" 🔴Limited facial expressions 🔴Often disliked by traditional anime fans Top 3D $ANIME series in my opinion: 🔵Houseki no Kuni – stunning visuals & fluid animation 🔵Dorohedoro – dark, gritty style perfectly fits CGI 🔵Beastars – expressive character animation 🔵Trigun: Stampede – cinematic action & high-quality CGI The best studio that combines 2D and 3D well is, I think, Ufotable Ufotable blends 2D & 3D seamlessly: 🟡3D backgrounds + 2D character animation 🟡Anime-style shading makes 3D look hand-drawn 🟡Frame-by-frame touch-ups for smooth motion 🟡Mixing 2D effects (fire, water) with 3D for impact Example: "Demon Slayer" – epic battle scenes like Tanjiro’s Water Breathing, using 3D camera movement while preserving 2D aesthetics. Which 3D $ANIME impressed you the most?show more

2023 was the year of AI avatars 2024 was... the year of AI photos 2025 was the year of AI videos And I think it's becoming clear now that 2026 will be the year of AI world models Fully interactive explorable 3d worlds generated from one or multiple 2d images or a prompt In turn these 2d images can then be generated by AI too So soon you can generate fully explorable virtual 3d worlds based on your own imagination Next will be figuring out how to make those worlds interactive This is World Labs (unaffiliated, but I like it) As always a lot of big AI model companies are now working on the same thing: 3d world models, only World Labs has a real properly working demo (for now) Very exciting time again!show more

I just released a new 2D/3D Hybrid Top Down... Template for Unreal Engine 5! It comes with Multi-Directional animations set up, an emissive texture and a normal texture for edge lighting, showcasing how all of that works! It’s FREE for a limited time through the link belowshow more

We're excited to announce that a new series of... Numberblocks is officially in production! Let us know who’s more excited, you or your child? Get ready for new adventures with 2D and 3D shapes and cool maths tools.show more

Imagine making 2D concept art for a game world... –pressing a button – and suddenly you can walk around an interactive 3D world. That's what Google DeepMind's new paper Genie 2 can do – simulate virtual worlds, including the consequences of any action (e.g. unlock door, jump, swim etc). Right now Genie 2 can generate consistent worlds for up to a minute. And this world model seems to generate larger 3D worlds than what World Labs showcased yesterday. Plus they're dynamic vs. static worlds – the foliage moves in the wind, the water ripples etc. Not quite ready for prime time, but promising on two fronts: 1. For game developers: enabling rapid prototyping of interactive experiences straight from concept art 2. For AI research: providing unlimited, diverse 3D environments for training and testing AI agents The race for building the biggest, baddest world model is very much on. Meanwhile, all I can think is "if only Stadia was still around!"show more

That awkward moment when you accidentally like a post…... Today I wanted to share a new little slice-of-life scene I created with @MartiniArt_ via Seedance. I really like the fact that the whole workflow is centralized in one place.Importing 2D characters, converting them into 3D, creating reference shots, testing animations… Everything works through a node-based system, which makes it easy to get a clear overview and iterate quickly from one model to another.show more

The “Sony PlayStacean” is a PSONE console redesigned to... resemble a crab. The original designer is Anh Dang, a video game concept artist (notably for League of Legends).  She created the original “PlayStacean” illustration—a playful crab-shaped redesign of the PS One (the smaller, rounded revision of the original PlayStation)—which became a popular meme/art piece. Console modder and YouTuber GingerOfOz later turned her 2D concept into a fully functional 3D-printed, working PS One hardware mod (complete with movable claw-style controllers), that you can see below:show more

With Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0 now released and open-sourced,... we're excited to showcase the technical highlights behind this impressive innovation: ✅360° Panoramic Generation: Creates complete, immersive “world scenes”, far beyond localized views. ✅Explorable 3D Scene Generation: Generates diverse, spatially consistent 3D worlds from text/image for truly immersive exploration. ✅Interactive/Editable: Achieves separation of foreground objects, background terrain, ground, and sky, for seamless secondary editing. ✅Exportable Mesh: Generated scenes can be exported as 3D meshes for direct import into mainstream game engines and modeling software. ✅Industry-Leading SOTA Evaluation: Surpasses state-of-the-art open-source models in generation quality. As the industry's first open-source model for physical simulation and explorable world generation, Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0 aims to foster a collaborative community ecosystem with developers and enthusiasts. ✨ Try it now: 🤗 Hugging Face:show more

Sakura vs Jinx, created with the AI Seedance 2.0.... Artificial intelligence is evolving at an impressive speed. It is already capable of generating a fight between a 2D character and a 3D character in a way that feels natural and believable. What is even more surprising is that this can be created in just a few minutes with a single prompt. Something that previously required a large team, significant resources, and a long production time can now be generated with just one well-crafted prompt.show more

3D artists are focusing on the wrong threat. The... scary part is not that AI can make a pretty render. The scary part is that GPT + Intangible MCP can already turn a prompt into something that looks like a full cinematic 3D scene: architecture, environment, mood, lighting, reflections, camera movement, the whole thing. That changes the conversation fast. Because once AI starts operating the workflow instead of just spitting out a lucky image, “knowing the software” stops being the moat people thought it was. The bottleneck shifts somewhere much more dangerous: taste. And taste is a much smaller moat than most 3D people want to believe.show more

Thrilled to unveil Youmio, our new brand identity that... represents the next evolution of what we’ve been building. Agents are the biggest technological leap since the internet, destined to transform crypto, games, and entertainment. With Youmio, we are shaping the agentic era, where agents learn, play and entertain in revolutionary ways. 🚀 So far, 2D entertainment and social media agents dominate the market. 3D agents are rare, requiring advanced AI and game engine skills. Yet 3D agents, especially those in game engines, unlock groundbreaking opportunities. Time to unleash them. Youmio empowers anyone to create and deploy valuable agents that are on-chain, cross-platform and ready for 3D worlds. Here’s how: ⭐️ Youmio Agents Youmio Agents lets anyone design and personalize 3D agents, equip them with powerful agentic capabilities, interact with them in unique ways and trade seamlessly within a cross-platform browser experience. 🕹️ Youmio Worlds Previously known as Today The Game, Youmio Worlds is a petri dish AI simulation where users build & co-inhabit beautiful, living 3D worlds with autonomous agents. Build dynamic worlds where players interact with intelligent agents, manage resources and participate in a player-agent marketplace. Ancient and Mythic Seeds are the most powerful entry points into the Youmio Worlds ecosystem, generating rare and beautiful worlds that unlock unique opportunities. 📡 Interoperable 3D Agents With Youmio, you’re not limited to our ecosystem. Using our API, developers can integrate Youmio agents into other experiences built in Unity and Unreal. On top of this, agents from other frameworks can also join Youmio, creating a truly interconnected metaverse. 🎭 Welcome to Limbo Meet Limbo, the first AI agent built using Youmio tech. Paired with the power of Youmio Worlds, we’re creating the Limboverse - a unique AI Big Brother setting where Limbo and your favorite and most valuable agents coexist in an ever-evolving, narrative-driven environment that you, the audience, will shape. $LIMBO is the most powerful entry point into the Limboverse and will be stakable on the Youmio Agents platform for unique rewards. Thanks for reading everyone and thanks for being on this amazing journey with us.🌱show more

MAKE is looking for Creative Generalists with Specialties... Artists... who can do it all, yet have that one area they’re really amazing at. We care deeply about ideas, storytelling, and making work that makes people feel. Tools and techniques? They matter. But what we’re after is taste, curiosity, and a clear point of view. If you can work across disciplines, thrive in a team, and bring something only you can bring to the table... we’d love to hear from you! 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗟𝗬 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘: ▪️ 2D Artists: ▪️ 3D Artists: ▪️ VFX Artists: If you have any questions, thoughts, or comments, please share below. #MAKE #CreativeJobs #AnimationCareers #VisualStorytelling #CreativeCommunityshow more

In the summer of 2023, I cold emailed Jensen... Huang and asked to capture a NeRF of him at SIGGRAPH. He responded in about an hour and said yes. A radiance field is, in the simplest terms, akin to a 3D photograph. A moment in time, so completely reconstructed that you can move through it and see it from angles the original cameras never occupied. NeRFs were the original method. Gaussian splatting, which debuted at that same SIGGRAPH, has since become the dominant form of radiance field. I called my late friend James, who told me we needed to begin practicing immediately. We ran capture after capture for weeks until we consistently got the capture time down to ~30 seconds with one camera. Later, in a hallway at the LA Convention Center during SIGGRAPH, I captured the portrait you're seeing now, a full 360° gaussian splat of Jensen, rendered here as a 2D flythrough. Afterward, I continued the conversation with him and members of his team to make the case for radiance fields as a foundational representation for imaging. To my surprise, they listened. Three years later, NVIDIA has several works, including NuRec, fVDB, 3DGRUT, and gsplat all utilizing radiance fields. The landscape has evolved enough that the reasoning is obvious. Gaussian splatting has begun to ship across some of the world’s largest industries, including autonomous vehicles, AEC, geospatial, media and entertainment, robotics, e-commerce, hospitality. It’s become clear that lifelike 3D is here to stay. And yet I think we will look back and be disappointed by how late we started taking 3D portraits of the people around us, just like how we have sparse 2D photos of our grandparents and great grandparents. We have billions of photographs of the people we know and love, but almost no radiance fields of them. I'll be returning to SIGGRAPH in LA where this was initially captured three years ago, with the landscape looking significantly different. Radiance fields are more under deployed than ever relative to what they can do. I'm excited for the future of imaging, and for 2D to transition into 3D. I have a few things up my sleeve that I think will make that case plainly.show more

Speaking of Dreams.. still kinda crazy to me how... perfect of a match a tool like that is for generative AI workflows. Intuitive game engine/creative sandbox that allows you to build almost anything, running underneath a Gen AI render. Sculpting, painting, interacting with your two hands in 3d space, here using two move controllers which by now is tech from 2010. I haven't seen ANY way to interact with 3d that allows for the same fast and intuitive sculpting without forcing you to wear a VR headset. I made this scene a few years ago in 2 and a half hour or so as part of a 1 scene pr. episode of The Last of Us, and ran it through a combo of Runway and Sora to get to this result.show more

🌍 As some of you might know, last year... we started building an app that required a 3D Map, and we were taken aback by the lack of good SDKs. They’re all clunky, slow, and unstable.🤔 Today, we're thrilled to introduce Cartes - a fast, easy-to-use, and visually appealing 3D Map SDK for Unity. This tool is built to empower your creativity in developing delightful apps and games for the Real World Metaverse. 📱🤳 ⚡️ With blazing-fast performance, our SDK offers a seamless integration for your (modern) Unity projects. We provide default navigation features, intuitive gestures, and clustering capabilities that we meticulously refined over hundreds of hours and proof-tested in guerilla tests. 🏞️ We wanted to build a genuinely 3D map, with 3D terrain, monuments and decorations, able to transition smoothly from a global view down to the human eye level. 🔍 #Unity #AR #Maps #LBEshow more

There's an open-source home robot vacuum you can actually... build yourself. It's called OOMWOO. Runs on a Raspberry Pi with 2D LiDAR mapping, ROS2 navigation, and native Home Assistant integration. No cloud dependency, no vendor lock-in. The team spent real time researching before designing it. They reviewed the entire 2025-2026 robot vacuum market, from budget to flagship, and found real-world cleaning doesn't track advertised suction power. The anti-tangle brush design alone is worth mentioning. A tapered rubber roller that resists hair-wrap, one of the most common complaints with commercial models, easy to 3D-print yourself. If you've got a Raspberry Pi and a 3D printer sitting around, this is a genuinely interesting weekend project.show more

Today, we released Lyra 2.0, a framework for generating... persistent, explorable 3D worlds at scale, from NVIDIA Research. Generating large-scale, complex environments is difficult for AI models. Current models often “forget” what spaces look like and lose track of movement over time, causing objects to shift, blur, or appear inconsistent. This prevents them from creating the reliable 3D environments required for downstream simulations. Lyra 2.0 solves these issues by: ✅ Maintaining per-frame 3D geometry to retrieve past frames and establish spatial correspondences ✅ Using self-augmented training to correct its own temporal drifting. Lyra 2.0 turns an image into a 3D world you can walk through, look back, and drop a robot into for real-time rendering, simulation, and immersive applications. ➡️ Learn more: 📄 Read the paper:show more