I made a game! Buy on Steam
A Game Art Trick
GDC/ADDON 2022: How (not) to create Textures for VFX

I had the pleasure to give this talk at the GDC 2022 / ADDON 2022 which focuses on the creation of textures for VFX. Click here to watch it:

I didn’t embed the video directly to avoid any tracking from Google and complications with the DSGVO.

The topic wasn’t discussed too much in the past and as I often struggle(d) making cool textures, I thought making a talk about it could help and maybe spark inspiration to others to talk more about this specific subject and share more knowledge.

Note 1: The talk The Dao of VFX Animation from Jeremy Griffith was an early inspiration for my talk.
Note 2: For my talk at the ADDON Conference I extended my demo project a bit (now it’s a volcano instead of clouds firing lightning strikes).

Extra Content

A short little extra video showing off the Content++ section, the texture database and some extra nuggets:

I didn’t embed the video directly to avoid any tracking from Google and complications with the DSGVO.

By the way, in 2017 I gave a similar (but more technical) talk about cool stuff we did with textures in “The Invisible Hours”:

I didn’t embed the video directly to avoid any tracking from Google and complications with the DSGVO.

Here is a summary of my trip in a light 4 minute video with some music:

I didn’t embed the video directly to avoid any tracking from Google and complications with the DSGVO.

I hope you find all of these information useful. Feel free to write me a message on Twitter or via Mail. I would love to hear your feedback!

Reviews

“Thanks for this talk, it helped me feel less overwhelmed”
– benjam
“It is fantastic!”
– Chromatic
“great knowledge that is very hard to collect on your own (or at least takes years)”
– Björn Riemann Tech VFX Artist at Deck13
“Great job @simonschreibt!!!!”
– Bryan Venzen
“along with Tharle’s recent talk, its one of the must see videos :)”
– Luos
“I love it dude, incredible”
– crestycomb
“I really thing it’s gonna be another fundamental VFX talk among the classics”
– Harry
“Thanks for the insightful talk”
– @EarlSagayno
“I just finished to watch it and this is so good.”
– @c_beville
“You absolutely nailed that!”
– @heyomidk
“I think this talk will become a new reference VFX wise!”
– @DnlThib
“I think it was impossible not to learn something form it!”
– @Thobinambours
“I was planning on skimming through (because I don’t really do vfx work) but watched in full because it was so fun :)”
– Geoff Lester
“Seriously lovely talk! Humble, informative, entertaining; really good work!”
– CallumBrighting
“Incredible amount of work, @simonschreibt deserves all your praise and your ko-fi bucks and whatever else.”
– cgwiki

Thanks!

Without these people, their help and feedback this talk would not have been possible. Thank you soo much!

Celine Tellier  &  Léa Laurain
Veer Sharma (GDC)
Alain Puget & Laëtitia CARPENTIER (ADDON)
Bryan Venzen
Mickaelle Ruckert
Sarah Carmody
Sandra Femenía
Andreas Glad
Kerstin Arnold
Kate Bernard
Jason Keyser
Robin Schmidt
Benedikt Ferlings
Gabi – Gabriel Boileau
Ilya Pavlov
Janina Gerards
Laëtitia Carpentier
Alain Puget

3 Replies