FX and Technical Artist working in games industry for 25 years (so far) on 20 published titles. PS2/3/4, XBox/360, Gamecube/Wii, Quest/2/3, PSVR, PC, mobile. Currently working on complex materials in UE5. #vfx #techart #gamedevhttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lwftn4ued22pEverything game-dev related is better now. Engines are free and amazing. Tools like Blender are free. IDEs are free or cheap. There are free tutorials with easy access and instant translation. Indie games keep getting better. We are in a golden age for game-dev, and it will only get better. 🙏15 Aug 2025 02:46 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwftn4ued22phttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lfwezjtfok2yI highly recommend HOLE on Steam. There are very tense fights. Moving and shooting attract enemies. Your gun can jam and overheat. It's low-priced, and I've put 14 hours into it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2971610/HOLE/17 Jan 2025 08:32 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfwezjtfok2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lc4qjmrxxs2wStasis field effect for a Quest game made in Unreal.29 Nov 2024 23:33 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc4qjmrxxs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lc2nj44fxc25Hand scanner for VR game on Quest in Unreal Engine. #VR #vfx #techart #Unreal29 Nov 2024 03:33 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc2nj44fxc25https://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lbxokpnwfs25Projectile for a mobile AR game in Unity. #vfx #techart #Unity27 Nov 2024 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbxokpnwfs25https://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lbnxqavdzc26Plasma beam fx made for a Quest VR game in Unreal. The beam is a cylinder with a material manipulating the WPO values to make it move. Vertex colours masks the start and end to keep the ends in position. #vfx #Unreal #techart #gamedev #gamedevelopment24 Nov 2024 02:32 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbnxqavdzc26https://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lbfy2zo4s223Lerping textures while moving through frames of a vertex animation texture. #unreal #vfx #techart #gamedev20 Nov 2024 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfy2zo4s223https://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lbd7wrkyzs23Lighting in a material by passing in a position vector and linear colour in Unreal. I use a dot product and a bit of extra math to figure out how much to add. This is relatively cheap vertex lighting. This was for a Quest VR game. #Unreal #lighting #vfx #techart #gamedev #gamedevelopment19 Nov 2024 19:59 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbd7wrkyzs23https://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lbamfdkuwk26Beam weapon attack fx for an AR game. #vfx #unity #techart #gamedev #AR #gamedevelopment18 Nov 2024 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbamfdkuwk26https://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lb6lipqd422oSpherified UVs give the illusion of a spherical shape to a texture on a plane. I added multiple animatable UVs for a packed texture, shadowing, and UV distortion using a normal map. #VFX #techart #Unreal #gamedev #gamedevelopment17 Nov 2024 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb6lipqd422ohttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lb3xygjbyk2zPrototype for a sci-fi shield in a Quest VR game. Dithered for performance on the tiled renderer. #VR #Quest #VFX #gamedev #gamedevelopment16 Nov 2024 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb3xygjbyk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3laz2zywauk2xDash effect made in Unity for an AR game. #XR #Unity #vfx #gamedev #gamedevelopment15 Nov 2024 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3laz2zywauk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lawjegtozc23Small trails and sparkles for a trophy in an AR game. Animated UVs driving a packed texture does most of the work. Unity engine. #vfx #gamedev #gamedevelopment #unity14 Nov 2024 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lawjegtozc23https://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3laro2qu3yc2sMesh-based water fx for a Quest VR game. Static meshes animated using world offset position in material. A lot of UV animation of packed textures. #Quest #VR #VFX #gamedev #gamedevelopment12 Nov 2024 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3laro2qu3yc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lapw56ltkp2pRocket launcher fx made in Idtech4 engine. I wrote a bunch of custom shaders to use channel packing, colour lerps, multiple UV animations, and randomization of the parameters. #VFX #Idtech #gamedev #gamedevelopment12 Nov 2024 03:43 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lapw56ltkp2phttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lakghwdsls24I made the big final explosion for BG2:ToB using 3DS Max. The pieces were animated using physics simulation. The arcing of electricity was done in After Effects. The green stuff in the explosion was a glitch from the Blur studio plugin I used, but I just left it in. #vfx #gamedev #bg209 Nov 2024 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lakghwdsls24https://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3lahbl4tmll2rI use a lot of packed textures and use gradient mapping to recolour each channel. I prefer to use three colour lerps but in this case I used a colour curve. Colour curves have more control but require a texture sample which isn't optimal. #VFX #Unreal #gamedev #gamedevelopment #techart08 Nov 2024 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lahbl4tmll2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3laetqk6l3b2rAnotha one #NWN #rpg #vfx #gamedev #gamedevelopment07 Nov 2024 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3laetqk6l3b2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3laetpci6we2wI made a bunch of fx for NWN that weren't used in the final game. It was the first time I had used fx systems inside a game engine. #NWN #vfx #rpg #gamedev #gamedevelopment07 Nov 2024 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3laetpci6we2whttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3la7pjywhu22kSomething I made for a prototype using a VAT. Lerping between frames in a VAT. I wanted to get the player's hands on the ends so they could feel like they were manipulating it. #Unreal #VFX #gamedev #gamedevelopment05 Nov 2024 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3la7pjywhu22khttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3la3vq2o2a32wSword from BG2:ToB that I modeled, textured, and animated. #BG2 #animation #rpg #vfx #gamedev #gamedevelopment04 Nov 2024 04:43 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3la3vq2o2a32whttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3l7w4liqqo22yFX I made for a mobile game prototype about seven years ago. #Unity #VFX #mobile #gamedev #gamedevelopment01 Nov 2024 21:29 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7w4liqqo22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3l7tak3pidh2cI converted something from Shadertoy into an Unreal material. It uses no image textures; everything is math. Originally made for a #VR game. #Unreal #shader #material #gamedev #gamedevelopment #realtime #vfx31 Oct 2024 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7tak3pidh2chttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3l7qrsojzfg22I made a Burger King restaurant for NFSU2. I based it off some photos I found of a real BK restaurant. I wrote something funny on the sign, but they had me change it. #NFS #PS2 #gamedev #gamedevelopment30 Oct 2024 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7qrsojzfg22https://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3l7p2uclfk223Aura of Flaming Death spell fx from Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal. Rendered in 3DS Max, and some work was done in After Effects. Split horizontally in engine so the back half could be put on a layer behind the character. #isometric #rpg #vfx #3DSMax #techart #gamedev #gamedevelopment30 Oct 2024 02:10 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7p2uclfk223https://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3l7mywkki6t2fIf working on low-precision hardware, you want to avoid using "time" to drive your animated materials. The hardware will rapidly lose precision, and things like UV animation driven by time will start jumping around. Instead, use a counter that rolls over before reaching the limits of precision.29 Oct 2024 06:30 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7mywkki6t2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3l7jfjyd2c62rBuildup for the explosion in previous post. #AR #Unity #VFX #gamedev #gamedevelopment #shaders #materials27 Oct 2024 20:05 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7jfjyd2c62rhttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3l7jf4p5zhm2cExplosion made for an AR game in Unity. #Unity #VFX #gamedev #gamedevelopment #techart #shaders #materials27 Oct 2024 19:58 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7jf4p5zhm2chttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3l7h2chkae52iAnother example of an opaque material that uses a cubemap to fake transparency. #UE5 #material #shader #techart #VFX #gamedev #gamedevelopment26 Oct 2024 21:39 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7h2chkae52ihttps://bsky.app/profile/canadiancorndog.bsky.social/post/3l7h27csyie2tFaked transparency using a captured cubemap. The surface is opaque. Useful if you can't afford transparency or don't want to deal with sorting problems. #material #shader #UE5 #techart #gamedev #gamedevelopment26 Oct 2024 21:37 +0000at://did:plc:ui2v4s6f44oahvvef6bfdttb/app.bsky.feed.post/3l7h27csyie2t