Simon Trümpler / Simonschreibt
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Simon Trümpler runs Simonschreibt.de, a bilingual technical art blog reverse-engineering visual tricks from shipped games. Game Art Tricks is a numbered archive of illustrated breakdowns, not a single-engine course.
Posts examine Sims 4 mirrors, Deus Ex terrain, GTA V glow, Diablo and Fallout stencils, and Cyberpunk decals. Render Hell 2.0 explains the raster pipeline for artists; linked pages host GDC material on VFX textures and RiME water talks.
Intermediate readers should know basic rendering terms. Captures and GIFs carry the analysis; Unity or Unreal docs appear only when discussing stencil masks or demo projects.
Content is free through the Game Art Tricks index. Course handouts and databases are linked from posts when stored elsewhere.
The blog is linked in technical-art communities as a practical counterpart to code-centric shader tutorials.
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