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Game art direction

The craft of deciding how a game looks, covering character design, lighting, animation and the tools artists use to hold a consistent style.

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Neural rendering hands NBA 2K27's realism problem to the animation team

Nvidia's DLSS 5 arrives in NBA 2K27 on September 4. Once skin and shadows stop reading as polygons, the thing your eye catches is an awkward cutscene walk, and that is a motion problem no rendering slider reaches.

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