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Free Noise Textures
Free noise textures by yours truly!
Force ring VFX Give-Away
A free Force-Ring effect.
KH3 Lightning vfx Give_Away
KH3 Lightning vfx recreation files.
Cropping tool mat-function
Small function that can help with optimization when using masks.
World Aligned Texture MF
Four custom WorldAlignedTexture material Functions.
Particle speed-creates
Quite a few particle speed-creates by yours truly.
My own Youtube Channel
Live-streams, videos, tutorials, and loads more content created by me.
Niagara – Gamejam Game
Small gamejam game me, Celeste, Chris, Venci, and Jon made.
Tutorials & Documentation
Cascade Documentation
UE4’s official cascade documentation.
UE4 Material Compendium
Ue4’s official material editor documentation.
UDK Material Compendium
UDK’s mat comp. sometimes clearer than the ue4 one.
Allembic Importer info
Documentation on how to Import the Allembic file formats.
Ue4’s Vertex Anim Tools
Great tools for 3dsmax vertex animation for ue4!
Collision Filtering
Nice info about collision filtering, and sometimes we have to shoot for goals like this.
Get more out of your noise!
Nice documentation on noise usage inside ue4.
3d Imposter Sprites
Good info about 3d imposter sprites. I sometimes bake my flipbooks using this.
Flowmap generation in PS
Using photoshop to create flowmaps.
Abel’s gif’s and exampels
Abel does not only create neat gifs, almost all of ’em contain material setup examples.
Vertex Anim Documentation
Great in-depth documentation about vertex shaders/vertex animation.
Normal Maps explained
How Normal map’s get compressed in ue4. Great read!
Oliver’s Material tutorials
Oliver has some great UDK and UE4 material-related tutorials.
GameTextures on Glass
Bit specific, but sometimes we vfx artists need to shatter expectations.. okay, poor pun.
Simple Ring tutorial
Simple ring tutorial. The website also has interesting content for non-vfx people.
Ue4 pivot painter
Great pivot painter documentation.
UE4’s Free Resource Collection
Hotgates Free Resource Collection is amazing, if you want free.. def check this out!
Garret’s easy Water tutorial
Quick solution to some nice water!
MaterialGirl’s UE4 Blog
Mickaelle Ruckert’s blog filled with neat material tips and more!
Material Editor Efficiency
Markus Hermann wrote a nice article to help you be more efficient within the mat editor!
FX Course for Unity
A great read, even for us ue4 people. loads of tips, trucks, and info.
Websites
RealTimeVFX.com
probably the best place to find other vfx artists and talk all techy to your hearts content.
RealTimeVFX Facebook
the RTVFX facebook group. You’ll have to be accepted since its a closed group.
Broad Strokes!
Jan Kaluza’s website, this jack of all trades has some neat math-based docs!
Tim Hobson on UE4
Great fellow, great documentation!
all round ue4 knowledge!
Eat3d tutorials
while a bit old imho, eat3d still has some great resources!
CGwell
amazing videos and other resources by/from our Asian vfx friends!
CGWell – Videos
CGWell is literally a wellspring for us vfx artists!
Thomas Harle’s VFX
Really nice documentation for UE4 VFX!
Doug’s VFX Website
Doug’s documentation on udk vfx is still very much relevant today!
Cartrdge gamedev community
Cartrdge.com is a great gamedev community to showcase your work.
CGRecords.net
Great website filled with tutorials.
UE4Resources.com
The great Elhoussine Mehnik has over 50 ue4 learning templates & samples.
Battleborn vfx interview
Michel Gangé on Battleborn’s hand-drawn vfx.
Polycount VFX Links
Old short list with some interesting documentation.
80.lv
Volumetric Fog!
UE4.16’s Volumetric fog cheat-sheet.
On VFX for games
VFX master Francisco García-Obledo Ordóñez‘s interview on vfx for games.
VFX Shader info!
VFX artist Thomas Harle talked about how he approaches vfx and shaders.
VFX for UE4
Nathan Huang’s VFX for ue4 interview.
VFX in DOOM I
Wirginia Romanowska talking about the vfx for DOOM 2016.
VFX in DOOM II
Wirginia Romanowska talking about the vfx for DOOM 2016.
Partikel/Glad on VFX production
The awesome Andreas Glad on his approach to vfx production!
Star Citizen VFX
Great documentation on Star Citizen’s explosions
Raymarching Smoke
Raymarching smoke in ue4!
Mastering VFX with Houdini
Great info on VFX creation in Houdini.
Free Noise Textures for VFX
By yours truly!
Houdini destruction simulation
Paweł Rutkowski on his work with Houdini for the production of hq 3d destruction sims.
Making VFX for FPS
Nikita Shilkin on making VFX for FPS games.
Houdini Motion Vector Tutorial
Motion Vector ROP tutorial, great for smoke and explosions.
Houdini Mud Splashes
Andreas Glad on Mudsplashes using Houdini & UE4.
Luos’s Pinterest
My personal Pinterest with random VFX inspiration.
Jason Keyser’s Pinterest
This Pinterest is filled to the brim with awesomeness.
Coleman’s Pinterest
Coleman’s Pinterest has an amazing collection.
Russel’s Pinterest
Quite a nice collection of VFX to browse trough!
WonderPixel’s Pinterest
Check out the FX-Animation pins!
Ofavrel’s Pinterest
More great VFX content!
S. Haak’s Pinterest
A wellspring of stylized VFX.
Sara’s Pinterest
old-skool stylized vfx!
VFX Collections
the related pins of these vfx collections are worth a few hours of scrolling.
VFX Collections II
More great related pins!
VFX Collections III
Even more great related pins!
Smokey Pinterest
Great smoke & cloud designs.
Youtube & Vimeo
YouTube Slomo
Slow down any video from youtube, great for exploring effects frame by frame.
ImbueFX
Mostly UDK, but still relevant!
UnrealSimon’s VFX
vfx channel with random interesting information!
Jona Marklund’s VFX tricks
Jona Marklund’s playlist of neat vfx tricks.
Gigantic’s VFX
Playlist with lots of Gigantic’s amazing vfx.
Star Ocean V VFX
Self-made video showing off most of the star Ocean 5 VFX.
Luos’s VFX Fav’s
Self-made playlist with a big collection of vfx I gathered over the years.
Official GDC channel
The official gdc channel, what more do I need to say.
Sunggeun’s vfx playlist
Great vfx artist and his personal playlist for effects is filled with great resources!
Frontak’s Channel
Frontak’s channel, some great stylized vfx in here as well.
SirHaian’s VFX channel
Amazing stylized vfx done by Sir Haian, def watch all his great videos!
Simon’s YouTube channel
Loads of vfx and other cool in-depth videos. A must-follow channel.
Kakky’s YouTube channel
One of the bigger ue4 vfx marketplace sellers, and his videos are rather inspiring.
Casey Fulton’s YouTube channel
I have always looked up at Casey’s effects, and still do. Really great content in here!
Jason K’s YouTube channel
Great tutorials and information by the one and only Mr. Keyser
Ryan Brucks’s YouTube channel
some great high end technical magic!
Matthew Wadstein’s channel
Loads of great information about the material editor, blueprints,and more.
Jan Kaluza’s youtube Channel
This generalist’s channel is filled with neat tricks!
Ground impact VFX
Some nice ground impact vfx.
Bubble reference
blub. blub. pop.
Fire Reference
some nice fire vfx!
Houdini Animtrail tut for ue4
Andreas Glad’s amazing houdini animtrail tutorial.
What color is slow?
Art of visual language in games.
The VFX of SpellSouls
Nikola Damjanov from Nordeus shares his knowledge on mobile vfx!
DMC VFX Reel
(thanks for the link An-Tim!)
The amazing Mickaelle Ruckert’s DMC VFX Reel!
ChengGang’s VFX Reel
Still one of the most amazing RT-VFX reels ever made.
PolySeeds VFX-Reel
PolySeed has some nice VFX reels, I picked a stylized one.
Volume Slices to Texture
This video will show you how to use the Volume Texture ROP to write out textures!
Sci-Fi Shield VFX
Amazing effects made by Khalid!
@Nerfgames Tweet
the naughty brothers stylized vfx in this tweet are just adorbs.
Paragon Meteor VFX
Chris & Jan showing how the Paragon Meteor fx might have been created.
Propulsion Pixel Art Tut
Saint11’s pixel-art tutorial on propulsion.
Projectile Pixel Art Tutorial
Saint11’s tutorial on pixel art projectiles. (just follow the guy already!)
Keijiro Takahashi’s Tweets
This man is a legend. tweets filled with awesomesauce!
“smear Frame” Effect
Jan Kaluza’s Smear Frame effect github repo tweet!
Stylized explosions
Mike showing off some nice stylized explosions.
Fiery monster vfx
Weezl does great pixel-art, as being shown by this combusting wormthing.
Hand Drawn Explosion 1
Nazoani showing hand drawn explosion effects.
Stylized Explosions 2
Quick but effective stylized explosion/impact effect by Yotube.
Stylized Explosions 3
James Lee showing off a great stylized explosion!
Environmental Hazard Ref.
The amazing Saint showing some nice references for env. hazards.
Resources
2d Animation Course
Bitey’s Animation Course is golden! (costs money)
Elemental Magic – Books
These should be on every VFX-Artist their shelves.
Free smokey Flipbooks!
Free flipbooks! Thanks Unity guys!
Houdini for VFX
Costs a few bucks, but this Houdini for gamedev tutorial is worth every penny!
Houdini for absolute beginners
For those who want to start out with Houdini!
Mud splashes in Houdini
Another great tut by Andreas Glad.
Fake Volumetric FX
Great tutorial by Stephen Jameson on fake volumetric effects.
L4D Wounds Presentation
GDC presentation on the Left4Dead wound system.
Riot Games – VFX Optimizations
Riot Games on VFX tricks & optimization. A great read!
Examples of visual fx in fantasy games
Tero V. published a document on “solutions of FX in fantasy games”
Terrain Blending of meshes
The Rite of Ilk people showing off how to blend meshes into your terrain.
Inspiration
Space Explosions!
Nothing big, but contains a few very cool space explosions.
Flame Painting
Painting flames is relaxing and inspiring.
Fluid Sim painting
Painting vector field fluid thingies is also relaxing and inspiring.
Denis’s Stylized VFX
Some nice stylized explosive vfx gifs!
Seung’s VFX Concept Art
Seung Chan Lee’s concept drawings is what I love seeing as a vfx artist.
Stickfigure VFX
The timing is impecable in this stickfigure scene!
Only a small gif.
Anime VFX Galore!
Search for a category and you’ll be rewarded with loads of videos within that genre.
Giphy!
Everyone knows Giphy, just use the search box 🙂
Worldless Stylized VFX
Some great stylized animations for a game called Worldless!
Maple Story VFX
Most classes come with videos showing their skills!
Timing gif
Simple gif about timing.
Solid Stylized VFX
Klemen’s vfx-portfolio showcases some very solid stylized vfx.
Pizurny’s Artsy Gifs
Mind boggling gif’s by Adam Pizurny
VFX Artist Interview
Great interview with Francisco! (GoW)
Riot Art Contest
The polycount Riot Art contest submissions. So much hnng.
Naruto VFX videos
My RTVFX post with a big collection of Naruto vfx.
Creative with Leaves
The things you can do with leaves.
FrameStore movie vfx
Great website with talks on movie-focussed vfx.
Colour Theory Simplified
Link provided to me by “Tharlevfx”
Great tips on color usage.
RealTimeVFX Competition
Collection of amazing posts showcasing great monthly event-based vfx.
ShaderForge Examples
Interesting shaderforge setups by Nordeus, anybody with decent ue4 knowledge can read this.
Random inspiration
Great videos, Great images, Inspiration!
Fortnite VFX
Bill Kladis posted some nice gif’s from Fortnite!
Sub-Space Corridor
Joe Canchola made a very cool space-warp vfx!
Forum & Answerhub
AH – Ribbon Trail discussion
Some interesting talk on ribbon trail techniques.
Vertex Anim tool for Blender
Vertex animation script for blender users.
Visual optimisation tricks.
google translated cg-well post about visual optimizations.
Mini-Tutorials
Great collection of random mini tutorials and the like.
Baking Decals to textures
Baking decals to texture maps, yes please.
Decal spawn @ particle collision
Spawning decals on particle collision setup.
Spline Thicken information
nice read and info on spline thicken, check it out!
Cell Shading discussion
Cell shading discussion/tutorial. Handy for stylized vfx as well.
Tools
JangaFX – Vector Fields
amazing vec-field generator, and soon a realtime fluid simulator! (not free)
Sprite Sheet Maker
Simple flipbook maker. I cannot live without it.
Flowmap Painter
A fun tool to make flowmaps with.
FX Texture Creator
Very neat tool for quick iteration of texture-based effects.
Hevedy’s Image Tools
Loads of neat tools to improve your workflow!
Affinity Designer
Rather cheap but great tool for graphical designs.
Easy VecFields
Jan Kaluza’s github repo for a simple vecfield generator.
VR Vector Field Painter
Joe’s VR VecField Painter. (paid)
Slate Editor
Facedown‘s Slate Editor makes all our vfx-lifes a little better! (Paid)