While working on Floating Islands live wallpaper I stumbled upon these cute voxel 3D models of airplanes by Max Parata. I already wanted to bring life to some stylized low-fi 3D art so in my mind I immediately saw how to create a stylized old-skool low-fi scene with these assets…

Idea and inspiration Idea for this 3D scene comes from the magnificent Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China. You can clearly see where the inspiration originates from — this majestic real life location also has grassy rock pillars covered in dense clouds and when observed from above, their bottom parts are disappearing in…

In this article I’ll explain the rendering pipeline of Spring Flowers WebGL Demo and its corresponding Android app. Also I will describe what problems we’ve encountered and what solutions we used to overcome during development and testing of the Android app. …

“With high screen DPI doesn’t come high GPU fillrate” — that’s the main problem of GPUs nowadays. Modern consoles struggle to sustain stable 30, let alone 60 fps on large 4k screens. The common technique to increase FPS is rendering at lower resolution with fancy upscaling techniques like DLSS and…

A couple weeks before Halloween 2021 I browsed Sketchfab and encountered a cool 3D model of Grim Reaper by 3DRT. It has a reasonable polycount, a set of different colors and smooth animations. So the decision was made to create a Halloween-themed live wallpaper with this model. …

In this article I’ll describe what issues we’ve encountered during development of our latest Reunion live wallpaper and its WebGL demo. All gorgeous hand-painted artwork is done by Conrad Justin, with only minor additions by me and my brother Dmytro (lights for candles, dust particles, etc). …

Analyzing depth of scene fragments is an important part of composing effects like soft particles. However, this can easily become a bottleneck on mobile devices. …

ASTC is a very efficient texture compression format - it combines decent image quality with high compression. It helps saving a lot of memory bandwidth on modern mobile GPUs. But can we crank it to 11 and make it run even faster? …

A few days ago we released a new nature-themed app — Iceland 3D Live Wallpaper. It has an interactive WebGL demo too, which you can find here. Terrain is based on this beautiful and detailed 3D model by Sergey Kuydin. Interestingly, this is not a real landscape of some part…