Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 435 - April 5th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

I can't believe I get to work on Soulframe. I fell into a dream game that resonates with my spirit in a way I did not think I would ever get the chance to experience, and for a company that believes in human made experiences. gameinformer.com/cover-reveal...

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-...

A generation of artists tossed away as valueless while consumer hardware becomes unavailable and unaffordable and your $500+ electricity bill all for the privilege of subsidizing the Gooner Lipstick Filter Pro while technologists expect you to clap that the glorious future of video games has arrived

DirectX 12 News from GDC 2026 - My Comments asawicki.info/news_1801_di...

2 more Nanite Tessellation posts are up. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani..., graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/03/vari...

GPU Tracing Participating Media alextardif.com/Participatin... Just some HLSL this time :-) Not a long form post, I've been reading PBR and maybe this will be helpful to share!

DXR 2.0 specs were now made public 🎉 microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Spec...

A self-contained, portable implementation of Adobe's OpenPBR 1.0 BSDF github.com/adobe/openpb...

I finally wrapped up the second post on the series about micro-shadowing. On this one I go over a basic approach based on a microsurface, and I show results for different materials and lighting conditions. irradiance.ca/posts/micros...

Graphics Programming Conference 2025 presentation recordings are now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRVL...

Vulkan memory barriers and image layouts explained www.rastergrid.com/blog/gpu-tec...

Excited to share that GPU Zen 4: Advanced Rendering Techniques is officially out. This volume features work from some of the most visually impactful projects of recent years, including #AssassinsCreed , #DOOM , #StarwarsOutLaws and NVidia's Zorah. And a killer cover :)

Being visited by a dreamy bunny

Interesting paper showing great results for replacing standard low-res rendering + temporal upsampling (DLSS) with high-res GBuffer + adaptive sampling. Makes sense given rising costs of lighting computations vs GBuffer. arxiv.org/abs/2602.08642

PS5 and PC 👀

Something new on the Horizon!

Now actually taking advantage of that delta tracking! There were in fact more bugs. Any closer to the screen and it makes my GPU sing to me😆Gonna work on that next

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

Enjoying going through "Physically Based Rendering", implemented with DXR. The chairs here are participating media using delta tracking, which I hope is finally correct😆 I'll share the header for it soon + my notes, I struggled with terminology for a while.

the engine we use & the games we're making

I wrote up a guide for authoring Nanite Assembly USD files in Unreal Engine 5.7. Part 1 covers the requisite structure of the USD scene. dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

Zootopia 2 took hundreds of artists, TDs, and engineers to make; I was lucky enough to be a small part of it all! Here are some of my personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2, along with some pretty pictures. blog.yiningkarlli.com/2025/12/zoot...

My "How to Vulkan in 2026" @vulkan.org #Vulkan guide is now publicly available at www.howtovulkan.com I still consider it a preview, though I'm mostly happy with it and only plan on changing minor things and incorporating some feedback.

"An Experimental Approach to printf in HLSL" from the one and only www.abolishcrlf.org/2025/12/31/P...

New post up! Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming alextardif.com/BindlessProg...

For my holiday break project I’ve been sketching out an idea to help soften the on-ramp for beginners learning D3D12: a header file that (very lightly) wraps the D3D12 API and only exposes the latest/most-useful bits through straightforward function definitions with ImGui-style inline documentation.

I wrote a blog post describing state of GPU market and what does it mean for support of new GPU features asawicki.info/articles/sta... Thanks to @asawicki.info for letting me publish on his blog

Warframe, also cool :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_BB...

After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0! This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Here's a release announcement with more details on past, present and future; please RT! meshoptimizer.org/v1

Soulframe is cool :-)

The post on using spatial hashing with raytraced ambient occlusion attracted quite a bit of interest so I expanded it into a blog post to discuss how it works behind the scenes to both reduce the noise and its cost. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/s...

New blog post! Behind the scenes of some of the techniques involved in making our last PC demo 💫 gboisse.github.io/posts/this-i...

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Strand-Based Hair And Fur Rendering In Indiana Jones and The Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from MachineGames is now online: youtu.be/jSE1XXBEK-w

i had a chat with lukasz and @antovsky about gamedev and stuff, if youre into that sort of thing! the middle hour is the juiciest but its all fantastic, ofc ;) youtu.be/mFBmoCv5EcQ?...

Beat Silksong tonight :D Team Cherry made my favorite game <3

I finally found the time and energy to make a new blog and write a couple of posts. This time I wrote about PBR content and game development principles. Both posts are quite different so hopefully people find something interesting on either one of them. irradiance.ca/posts/

New blog post: Outlining an alternative path to learn graphics programming. themaister.net/blog/2025/10...

I recommend looking at new Paged Out issue #7 - a free magazine with lots of articles, one page each. This one includes my article "Modern 4K Intros on the Demoscene". pagedout.institute

Ray tracing The World of #AssassinsCreedShadows (Siggraph 2025) available on YouTube youtu.be/2K-rwy4aMmU?...

New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome! zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...

A little something I've been meaning to write for a while martinfullerblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/a... Thank you to the awesome people at Machine Games and id Software!

Advanced Shader Delivery is here devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/agil...

Continuing on the topic of GPU utilisation and performance, as a practical example, I looked a bit deeper into the impact of vertex shader exports on the cost of a drawcall and wrote another blog post with some observations interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/t...

And with that last thread ended, I'm so excited to share that tomorrow is my first day at Digital Extremes! After the project cancellation I finally had the chance to pop open Soulframe after getting access a long time ago, and I got hooked so quickly that I jumped at their job page.

Sharing some details about my job hunt in case it's helpful to someone! After our project got canned I applied to 12 jobs as a first, and mercifully last, batch. 6 were Unreal-based, 6 were custom tech

If you work with D3D12, this is the post you want to read!

Silksong :D

New blog post discussing a few approaches to bottleneck reduction and GPU utilisation and performance increase interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/g...