Hey lovely person! 💘

Hope you're having a fine day!

In the last Newsletter I shared an article about Niagara Optimization and there have been some discussions about its credibility. I recommend reading this Discord Thread on Asher's Tech Art Discord for more details.

I added this beautiful explosion pack (costs 10-20$) to my database.

850 people are now subscribed to this newsletter. Could be 950 if everyone would confirm … I guess 100 spam filters have been too aggressive. :D

Love how huge and epic this whole spell looks. Let it rain fire (swords)!

Collection of cool VFX (love the explosions!) which also contains a breakdown for a nice shipy water trail.

Very cool breakdown shared by woufh on my discord about how to use render targets & SDFs to make a seamless transition while crawling out of a TV.

Sparkles shared this new VFX on my discord. Awesome lightning action!

Super cool Quantum Break swushle-swishle VFX!

VFX Vault gifted us a nice tutorial on how to smooth out sword trails, which can be choppy when the animation is very fast and offers only a few key frames for big movements.

Very cool tool for painting Normal Maps to get a nice hand-painted style.

Great short article on LinkedIn about the effect on performance in regard to cache misses while sampling a textures.

TharleVFX gifts us a 67 short videos covering many Unreal material nodes and/or how to achieve certain effects like Gradient Mapping.

By the way, TharleVFX has a great Gumroad Shop. Check it out!

Cute MS Paint Art but it's oil on canvas.

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