Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work!

Yesterday I got to take part in a live portfolio review by @beyond-fx.bsky.social ! It was fun and insightful, and I wanted to give a quick shout out to say thank you to the team that put it on! Getting professional feedback is so valuable and hard to come by, so I really appreciate ya'll doing it!

Got to take some time to play with Illugen for the first time today! I really just bashed around and was able to get to something pretty decent in like a hr!

Felt very at home for someone comfy in UE's material editor!

#fx #vfx #gameart

Yeah I think they just scrape your email and then watch for activity on your account so they know a humans on the other end 🫠

The consistent scams from posting something on ArtStation is insane.

I posted 2 projects today, and I've already received 8 emails from people asking to "put my work in their art gallery", or "Purchase my work for their wedding invite"

I'm a VFX artist. You hanging up a monitor in your "gallery"?

We did one elemental variation on the above FX, turning it from an Inky feel to a poison/toxic FX...

And we also did a more fire focused FX using a bunch of assets we generated from Embergen (and some RBD's from Houdini)

Last week I finished up @vfxapprentice.bsky.social 's bootcamp taught by @dianasimonyan.bsky.social

Had a lot of fun, learned a lot, and after one last pass on all our FX, they are ready to share!

Other fX in the thread below, since Bsky wont let me add more then 1 in a post 🙃

#vfx #rtvfx

Will be working on getting an official Artstation post up this week, so I can upload more details and full res videos to really show them off :3

Oh hey! 👋 Been gone for a bit, life and what not. But one of the things I've been doing is a VFX Bootcamp, and while working on my Ink splash tonight, UE Crashed (Big surprise)

But the good news is the frame it happened to crash on was a pretty good freeze frame, so thought I'd share 🙃

#VFX

Texture preparation in Substance Designer for one of my triangle shader I've posted a while ago 🔺

Chosing random grayscale values → set up a nice red to yellow fading in Unreal (shown next time) ✨

#vfxkate #vfx #UE5 #substancedesigner #UnrealEngine

Now and then, I open this up and watch the procedural animation, amused by how silly it looks.

Happy #VFXFriday
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I forgot to post my work again here! It's a fan art from the game "Mario + The Lapins Crétins: Kingdom Battle"

#vfx #realtimevfx #VFXFriday #unreal #fanart #ubisoft #mario

A ghostly trail drifting in circles. #realtimevfx

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개인작

Super old energy sketch

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Very early WIP of the new VFX I'm working on :D

It's gonna be really cool when I add everything else I want there :D

#RealtimeVFX #VFX #unity

Been lost to a moody brain, then thought, "Hey, why don't you remake some of the first VFX you ever did?!"

So, first pass of me remaking the Zap Turret VFX from MonstroCity.

Going to really work on that hit effect more, but I do love the "wet" nature of the beam

#RealtimeVFX #gamedev #gameart

Yea the big reason I'm doing it is because I can remove refraction from the material I'm working with, and haven't had an issue doing so so far with my fx/scene.

But of course it will all depend on what you need to do, and how your doing it. And what hardware your testing too! (I'm on Vulkan SM5)

Taking the chance to repost some useful stuff I made in the past

There is a secret Volumetric Painting tool I hid in the #UE5 Valley of the Ancient demo project (free)

You can paint how wind flows, affecting fog, sand and small debris

#gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

Ended the year with a study of Brimstone’s smoke from Valorant! I think I’ll make a fiery variant based on Phoenix next :) Happy New Years everyone!! 🎉
#rtvfx #realtimevfx #vfx #ue5

OK, the portal is done, including opening, closure, and BP implementation with keyboard controls, with around 3h+ content.
#vfx #vfxfriday #unrealengine5 #ue5 #realtimevfx

John Emerson Lead VFX Artist

Getting ready to open myself up again for contracts and jobs. If you're looking for a real time visual effects artist (#rtvfx #fx #gamedev) then feel free to give me a shout. johnemerson.artstation.com

Starting the year off with something to post on #VFXFriday !!
It's still unfinished, but I figured its looking good enough to share 😀

Feedbacks are appreciated!

#rtvfx #realtimevfx #vfx #unity #gamedev #art #gameart

Ooh I'm also working on a black hole fx 👀 Really like the little bits of lightning you have right before it collapses, thats fun!

Today in my VFX journey....

Learned you can make a super simple and CHEAP distortion material without using any refraction! Prefect way to help keep your FX a little bit more performant!

#vfx #gamedev #ue5

Back from holidays, and made some great progress today! I was able to get all of my assets tied together with an FX, so my wind system cranks up to 10 when it appears! I don't have it changing the water yet, but it's def giving my whole scene a feeling of cohesion!

#rtvfx #unreal #gamedev

DTI tractography from the Calgary Preschool MRI Dataset from the Developmental Neuroimaging Lab. 3dSlicer for data extraction, Houdini for mesh optimization and animation, Redshift for rendering was used
#mri #dti #tractography #houdini #sidefx #redshift #neuro #reconstruction
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