Watching Sesame Street and can't help but notice Abby and all fairy magic sparkles do not have alpha opacity multiplied. I know nobody probably cares, it does not diminish the show at all and she is my daughter's favorite, but the fx artist in me really wants to fix it.

Explosions gonna explode. Still a little left to do for clean up, but not bad. #realtimevfx #gamedev vimeo.com/1145778298?s...

We have had 3 live action Sonic movies and only 1 Pikachu movie. That ain't right. Pikachu is worth at least a sequel, if not a trilogy.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Tron: Legacy

My only problem with this is the naming. We started with baseball terminology to describe the bigs so why not just keep using that? A (Kei), High A (Midi), AA, and AAA work.

Getting that next level up on my demo project out there. Enjoying stretching myself in non-VFX ways. #UnrealEngine #gamedev youtu.be/sysc1B44VTc

Started making the demo scene today and realized I had worked with a key mesh asset 2.5 times it's imported size so my scale was completely off for the rest of the world. Thankfully it was only 1 day and I can easily correct but... dang.

Reminder for all the USA freelance and business owners. Quarterly tax payments coming due soon. I just spent an hour categorizing 2 months worth that I had back burnered. Don't be like me.

Some basic math today revealed I need around 800 dialogue entries for the demo of my game without considering duplicate use. At a max of 250 characters per entry that is 200,000 keypresses. I better start writing before the carpal tunnel gets me. #gamedev

Unpopular opinion: Akira (1988) is not as good as people want to believe it is, everybody just likes Tron style motorcycles.

Getting a dialogue (narrative?) system up and running was easier than I imagined. Now I gotta come up with the words though. Something like 40 characters and 30 quests? This is gonna take a minute. #gamedev #UI #narrativedesign

It seems to me that CommonUI should be automatically enabled and used by Unreal. Course I'm on 5.3 so maybe it is in 5.6?

I see other parents of young children and can't help but feel so young in comparison. Is this impostor syndrome for parenting?

Wrapping up a contract and am available for work as either contract or FTE in real time VFX. If you need assistance meeting your goals, please reach out. Together we can achieve something great! #gamedev #realtimevfx #vfx #unrealengine johnemerson.artstation.com

Reminder that before 1915 the US Postal Service technically allowed the mailing of your children. Only a few cases are known to have occurred, but it was with trusted (aka well known) carriers. How much do you trust that Waymo and do they have deliver at the same standard as the USPS?

Good times when you get the emote system in your game working. #gamedev

Putzing around making my own version of the hologram map based on this video. Not sure yet if I'm going to go down the PCG route or not to bring in holographic buildings. May end up trying out my render target as a height mask to do some offsets. www.youtube.com/live/IBuqoNw...

This is a nice breakdown of a sci-fi shield effects. Well done. #realtimevfx #gamedev

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Geoff Keighley puts foot in mouth to please financial backers, news at 11. The only people upset by this are dev's and any C-suite with a production or finance staff knows its not true. This has been dragging on for a while gang and it really is much ado about nothing.

Havn't seen it posted here but looks like Unreal will have base coordinate systems updates rolling in the future. Y-up right handed is the future. #gamedev fixupx.com/TimSweeneyEp...

Blasts from the past to make you feel warm and fuzzy after you close your 1000 browser tabs.

Someone put Star Wars Rebel Assault II on the Playstation classics and I am here for it.

🟦 VFX Vault VFX help ✨ 'Sharing some great tips which VFX Vault posted today - to help out very common issues with ribbons and trails in UnrealEngine ✨ Tutorial here: youtu.be/nJBwKF7os8g?... #UnrealEngine #UE #vfx #rtvfx #tutorial

I think my daughter's electronic piano has Chrono Trigger songs built into it. Get 'em started young on that video game music life!

Another "unexpected" behavior for this #VFXFriday If frac() just leaves the fractional part of the number why is the result not this mirrored gradient that we'd expect? Because what is happening under the hood is x -floor(x)! So for example frac(-0.1) is -0.1 - (-1) = 0.9 🤯 #realtimeVFX #gamedev

Meet your new Pope

Just twiddling away, relearning #Sidefx #Houdini from the ground up because the disjointed haphazard approach I used to date is no longer sufficient. Jordan Allen has put together, in my opinion, the best intro series. It's clicking (finally). @doublejumpacademy.bsky.social

It's amazing what a sphere can do in #realtimevfx

Finally figured out the genre for a game idea I have and it's exciting. A lot easier to talk about it now. Probably still financially unobtainable though. Oh well.

New VFX/Tech Art Newsletter is out! 📃Read online: simonschreibt.de?na=view&id=28 ✋Subscribe: simonschreibt.de/newsletter/ #gamedev #realtimevfx #vfx #techart

Took the plunge and canceled my Maya renewal so I force myself to use Houdini all the time and can't fall back on Maya as a crutch. #SideFX #Houdini

GDC is prohibitively expensive for many folks. Let's relocate the conference to a week at an amazing zoo (thoughts as I walk around an awesome zoo). #SedgwickCountyZoo

Steam basically came into existence because Monica Harrington realized that the piracy protection they implemented for Half-Life gave them direct access to their customers, which was unheard of for a game dev back then. Fascinating history of Valve: medium.com/@monicah428/... #firstpost #indiegames

Setting up my next scene for a portfolio piece and wondering when I just go ahead and make a FF type game now. Nothing ooh and aah to show (yet) but it feels right so far. Link for non compressed vid. #gamedev #realtimevfx vimeo.com/1068497430/c...

Was going to catch up on #Formula1 this weekend some watching DTS (even though I catch highlights regularly), then saw Norris got P1 qual at Melbourne. Hell yeah! Been rooting for him since 2022. Hamilton performing well in New Ferrari so far, and Williams continuing upwards trend! Good year ahead.

Sharing some of the work I did on Poppy Playtime Chapter 4. #GameDev #RealTimeVFX #Yarnaby #PoppyPlaytime www.artstation.com/artwork/ZloyeG

Checking if there are enough of us #Kansas #Gamedev to start a proper feed. Starting my list here. If you want to be on it, and are Kansas based, drop a note. I am including #KCMO #gamedev as well due to the specific nature of KC. bsky.app/profile/did:...

A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

There has to be a better way to check for the first element in an array with a component tag. My blueprint works I think, but it feels messy. Oh well, so long as it works.

As a "not real" Kansan who has actually worked for the state and local gov, Senator Roger Marshall, who doesn't even live in Kansas, can get the hell out. Signed, #ARealKansan www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/p...

This sounds pretty awesome for preservation efforts.

In the leadup to GDC I wonder what #gamedev developer conferences, other than M+Dev, exist in the middle of the USA. Of course, with the state of things, is it even reasonable to have/host such a conference? I would love one in Kansas City, but politics and economics certainly are a question today.

Woke up desiring some old 3d platforms like Jak and Daxter, Rayman, Banjo-Kazooie, or Mario. We need more platformers.

This thread explains what we in physical goods are facing as a result of the tariffs being forced upon foreign countries better than I could ever have. If you think it won’t affect you, it will. I can’t imagine any person that won’t feel some sort of ripple effect from this, even the wealthy.

You can make console variables in UE5 from Project Settings and watch for changes to the values in Blueprint now by the way. custom cvars with no code!!! i did a post about it because nothing came up when i googled it www.joewintergreen.com/unreal-scoop...

UI folks, can someone explain to me the benefit of Figma over Miro? I want to bang my head on my desk a little bit every time I try to just zoom in/out, let alone preview gifs/videos.

Talking with my wife, the engineer, about gravity in Unreal and we decided Space Kerbals is just sending babies (tiny drunk people) into space to get to the moon or farther. Unethical? Perhaps, but babies in space is a funny image none the less.

New spline splatter on spline node is pretty cool to use and makes things quite easy. #gamedev #substance3d #realtimevfx