Hey lovely person! 💘

How are you doing? I wish you a good time, whatever you're doing. Except it's something bad! For example, if you make a screenshot of your coworkers desktop, set it as background and then hide all the real icons, that's not nice! Don't do it!

Updated my article about the fluffy Airborn trees with a fantastic in-depth post made by Kids with Sticks explaining the process of making fluffy foliage with Blender.

This is the 13th (!) update for my Diablo 3 Bubbles article. This time because Adiyar Aidarbekov made a post about transforming the UVs into a "bubble".

This was originally "only" an Update for my old Fallout 3 Edges article, but I made it now its own post, so that it can stand out a bit more.

Yann Miguet shared this awesome lightning impact on my discord. And in the post you'll also find a breakdown of the used textures and meshes!

Denis Novikov shares amazing short but awesome VFX painting guidelines on Bluesky and X. I love how everything starts with simple lines and then turns into skadoosh.

Ex_Draco shared a short video breakdown on my discord which shows the setup for the Niagara System & Blueprint of this tentacle monster.

This video does not only show how to put some lines on a terrain, but does some additional stuff like controlling their intensity based on normal orientation. The video is also animated very nicely!

Old but gold article about many dynamic effects implemented into Graveyard Keeper. The lighting and especially the height fog are amazing!

Breakdown of a very cool setup to curl around your shapes by Sherif Dawoud.

Another cool post from Sherif Dawoud which shows how to make nice crack alphas. Here it's meant for environment art, but all VFX artists now: We also need cracks when impacts happen!

Do not just look at the nice pictures! If you scroll down, this post also shows hoe this cool procedural system works under its hood.

This is a very in-depth post about post process shaders. I need 2 weeks vacation to read and repro it!

According to the author, this is a "short" video (just 1h :D ) about GPU Texture Compression. Goes into great detail and also covers topics like why PNG/JPG formats do not work on GPU.

Olli is a young developer (making an awesome game named Squinky [Play it! Combines platforming+minecraft+portal]) and shows how he makes pixel art normal maps for dynyamic lighting.

Thanks for reading! Have a lovely day/night! 💘
Simon