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Working with AI -- Vol.31
Spent some time syncing up with Gemini on a simplified pyro shading formula. It got it working in no time, except it undershot the fire intensity by 2 orders of magnitude. 😅
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Working with AI -- Vol.30
How does this low-overhead, volume-conserving smoke work? Watch this video to find out.
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Make the motion realistic with some cause and effect
The flames on the ground point perfectly up, even though a giant tornado just sent rocks flying. A slight twisting motion in the remaining elements will make it fit much better with the world it is supposed to interact with
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Laser Beam VFX Study by Brian Fleming
Created with Unreal Engine, Houdini and Substance 3D Designer
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Followed by Min Hyune Bae breaking down the core aspects of large-scale VFX.

Starts on October 19th: www.vfxapprentice.com/courses/styl...

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In the final weeks of our Stylized class, you will take your work into the game engine and push it to a production-ready state.

Construct high-end, cohesive final results. Jasmin Wodarczyk (Senior VFX Artist at Beyond-FX) covers Unreal color workflows.

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Jose Estrada (VFX Artist II on 2XKO) guides you through creating creative spell VFX that react to gameplay elements in real-time.

Starts on October 19th: www.vfxapprentice.com/courses/styl...

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In the final weeks of our Stylized VFX class, you will take your work into the game engine and push it to a final, production-ready state.

Week 7: Dynamic VFX Implementations
Set up blueprint interactions to meet your project's needs.

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Gabriel Boileau @nibilli.bsky.social teaches the shader pipeline using vetted industry practices, lighting hacks, impact frames, and chromatic aberration.

Starts on October 19th: www.vfxapprentice.com/courses/styl...

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In the final weeks of our Stylized VFX class, take your work into the game engine and push it to a final, production-ready state.
Week 6: Materials for Stylized VFX
Improve performance with optimized material setups & stylized production techniques.

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Working with AI -- Vol.29
Used analytical solutions to estimate smoke thickness for space skipping, and also threw in thickness-based adaptive stepping—the results look great.
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Avoid single driving cards or meshes by adding secondary elements

A magician never reveals their secret! In the cast windup, you will see a single fiery ring driving all the motion. Adding lingering flames or sparks will add believability and help hide your trick👇

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Working with AI -- Vol.28
Ran into a huge raymarching overhead spike while porting screen-space UDF to local-space 3D UDF for the vol-smoke.
Fixed it by letting Gemini use a 2D UDF for space skipping to pre-determine the step size. Massive saving!
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