Arnaud Fontaine

🎂🎂 We recently celebrated Maracas Studio's second anniversary! Here's a brief look back of the company: - Our team of 6 multi-skilled talents (with over 10 years' experience) is now covering the main key roles: 3D production, C# development, game design, project management, communication, marketing and business development. Thanks again to all those who have contributed to our projects, whether as interns, employees or freelancers ❤️ - We now have 3 ambitious and original intellectual properties in production 💪 And to say the least, they've got personality! As a gamer, I can't wait to play them; as a developer, I'm pretty excited about all the challenges we face every day. - In just 2 years, we've established some excellent collaborations with partners who put their trust in our projects and our team 🚀 Special thanks to Wallimage for their support, but also Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel, Walga.be, CBC Banque & Assurance, Technocité, Techno.bel, Ville de Mons and our Walloon developer friends (Little Big Monkey Studio, Demute., Clever Trickster, etc.). I could also mention all the publishers and investors with whom we've had many discussions over the years: Your opinions make us grow. It's hard to list all the people who remind us every day how great this industry is, but I thank you all. - Our impact on the Walloon ecosystem has always been one of our priorities. Our involvement with Haute École Albert Jacquard (HEAJ), AZIMUT Entreprendre, GameMax - Gaming in Mons Area eXtended, Technocité and other initiatives aligns with our goal of training and supporting talent. I'm also proud of the #gamedevafterwork events in Charleroi we launched last year, which bring together developers, students and enthusiasts. This has generated numerous connections and collaborations. Thanks to Walga.be, Digital Wallonia, the Wallonia.be/en, and the Quai10 for making this event possible. And now, what are the next steps? - We want to be there in 3, 5 and 10 years' time. Despite a difficult global economic context, our strategic choices make us confident for 2024 and 2025. We remain determined to make an impact on the ecosystem and showcase Walloon talent. We plan to finance our productions soon, which will enable us to enter a growth phase from the end of this year until 2025, with a potential fund-raising in 2026. What lies ahead looks particularly exciting, and we're ready to take these next steps ✨ Let me conclude by saying how grateful I am to be part of this great story, and how proud I am of my team. Happy birthday, Maracas Studio 🥂

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First test build for an initial demo on my audio implementation processes. I still need to mix, but I think the concept is there. It gives an idea of some of the principles I use. It's not flashy and it's not a game; it's research work on possibilities. P.S.: The video isn't interesting without the sound.

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All real-time synthesis for animation work in progress. The speed and distance detection components are in place.

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#Ubisoft is gearing up to launch games featuring #Web3 technology this year. Nicolas Pouard Vice President of the Ubisoft Strategic Innovation Lab and head of #blockchain initiatives, is spearheading these developments. The company has broadened its blockchain efforts, forging new gaming partnerships and expanding its blockchain team. It's licensing intellectual properties to Web3 gaming firms like VeVe and Cross The Ages and collaborating with blockchain platforms such as Aleph, Flow, XPLA, and Sequence. Ubisoft is also developing Champions Tactics with Oasys, and plans to release two Web3 games to the public by the end of the year. This push into Web3 gaming positions Ubisoft at the forefront of the industry, offering fresh opportunities for growth and innovation. For the blockchain gaming community, Ubisoft’s involvement not only legitimizes the space but also drives technological advancements and broadens the market, promising enhanced gaming experiences and new interactive possibilities. Sources: GamesBeat, Dean Takahashi

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I'm a quarter of the way through the job, so this is a test of a project done entirely in synthesis, only with the Synth One from Wwise. I really need a developer to make something polished, but at least I can test with my prototype. I've added a distance warning in draft form; you can really sense the presence of volume when you get close enough to an object, especially with headphones. I have no idea in terms of CPU resources if it's too much or if it's within limits, but still at 0 bytes in data. #Wwise #SynthOne #WIP #OnlySynthesis #Realtime

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Here is my latest script. In the link, you will find my work base for sound design of an animation. It includes tools to trigger Wwise events without using events in the animation, generate a curve for an RTPC and play it based on an animation, launch synthesis configuration presets according to the timing of an animation, and as mentioned in my previous two posts, retrieve points from an existing animation curve and reconstruct it through interpolation. These are basic tools for working and prototyping with Unity and Wwise. Unity is excellent for prototyping with its simple scripting and very responsive nature, which allows for quick development. The next step will be to eventually port the concepts and prototypes developed in Unity directly to Unreal by generating C++ to automatically create Blueprints :) To download my scripts if you want to test them: https://lnkd.in/exA4ikku

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Prompt Injection Node for ComfyUI is a promising new endeavour from Mat3o , it's a wonderful playground to experiment prompting with nodes, and that means a lot of control over composition, subject, style, etc. Let’s continue to support and nurture the open-source community. Thanks to Latent Vision for the amazing tutorial. And a note to Stability.ai – please, don’t mess this up! 🙏 Image: Comfyui Video: Luma #OpenSource #ComfyUI #Latentvision

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Hello, Today I'm happy to finally release the framework I've been using to do my animation paper study videos. You can have a look at the package at https://lnkd.in/e6q2tsxi It allowed me to release the source code of the videos also at https://lnkd.in/euwivcux Hope it will be useful to some. #gamedev #python #jupyterlab #openusd #3danimation

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💥Exciting to Share This 💥 I've just completed a fun project : Task-03 a Tic-Tac-Toe Web Application! 🎆 🚀 Features: Interactive Gameplay: Play against a friend with a simple and intutive interface. Dynamic Win Detection: Recognizes winning combinations and alerts the players. Responsive Design: Enjoy a seamless experience across devices. 👩‍💻Tech stack: HTML for structure CSS for styling JavaScript for game logic 📌 Check out for GitHub link :- https://lnkd.in/enbsCHWB building this project has been an amazing journey,enhancing my skills in front_end development and JavaScript. I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions! Excited to continue building and learning more! #WebDevelopment #prodigyInfoTech #JavaScript #HTML #CSS #FrontEndDevelopment

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in my next tutorial, I will teach you how you can create a photorealism image by using the default light system in Unreal Engine. Subscribe my youtube: https://lnkd.in/e9qP-dsA

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Build test of my project "One Tool - Zero Byte Audio - Binaural." It's truly magical to realize there are no sounds in the project, and they only exist at the moment they need to appear. I'm waiting for AI to outperform me in terms of CPU usage to audio file size ratio. With the implementation phase finished, the first pass and initial layer of sound design roughly defined, all that remains is to create the sounds, and it's a real relief not to have to search for where to trigger them. #Wwise #Unity #Audio3D #VR #Binaural #Synthese #Realtime

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I finished my second blog post about the creation of shortcuts and speeding up your coding workflow a couple of days ago! Feel free to check it out: https://lnkd.in/eiEe6yDN

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[#WIP] I am on the last planned scene, but I had ideas for two more scenes, smaller but important enough in the game. So this project will have 5 scenes in total, not sure they will end in 5 courses, but the idea is there. Here are some hints of what's to come -> 🍁💧🌡️ #UnrealEngine #speedtree #quixel #megascans #japan #ghostoftsushima #inspired #scene

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