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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work!
@brentreel.bsky.social
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VFX Artist who enjoys all the bangs, booms, swooshes and sparkles! Focused on Realtime for Game Dev, but occasionally dip into other branches.
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Got to take some time to play with Illugen for the first time today! I really just bashed around and was able to get to something pretty decent in like a hr!

Felt very at home for someone comfy in UE's material editor!

#fx #vfx #gameart
July 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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We did one elemental variation on the above FX, turning it from an Inky feel to a poison/toxic FX...
June 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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And we also did a more fire focused FX using a bunch of assets we generated from Embergen (and some RBD's from Houdini)
June 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Last week I finished up @vfxapprentice.bsky.social 's bootcamp taught by @dianasimonyan.bsky.social

Had a lot of fun, learned a lot, and after one last pass on all our FX, they are ready to share!

Other fX in the thread below, since Bsky wont let me add more then 1 in a post 🙃

#vfx #rtvfx
June 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Back from holidays, and made some great progress today! I was able to get all of my assets tied together with an FX, so my wind system cranks up to 10 when it appears! I don't have it changing the water yet, but it's def giving my whole scene a feeling of cohesion!

#rtvfx #unreal #gamedev
December 28, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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Using a noise texture to cull out particles for a more organic distribution! (And to have more control to mask out problem spots 🔪)

#rtvfx #niagara #ue5 #gamedev
December 22, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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Started working on a new scene today, so I can try out some of the new techniques I learned! Specifically, I want to build up a weather system to control the whole scene. So far we have the start to some wind changing the tree leaves, falling leaves, and water pan direction!

#rtvfx #unreal #gamedev
December 21, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Continuing from yesterday, I finally learned how to have my particles interact with other objects in the world! Hint: The Masks Module in Niagara is stronk 💪

#rtvfx #vfx #gamedev #Unreal #niagara
December 18, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Learned a cool new technique for feeding game world values into Niagara to make a more dynamic FX! Super cool and opens a lot of doors 👀

Here's some snow where the wind value increases as you place it higher in the world!

#rtvfx #unreal #gamedev
December 17, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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Today I Learned:

You can enable "Determinism" on your emitters to let you scrub your FX backwards in Niagara.

Just be sure to turn it back off when your done so your FX still has random seeds at the end!

#ue5 #rtvfx #gamedev
December 10, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Took my first stab at some Shader code today, with GLSL! Not exactly sure when I would use this, but it was fun to explore, and see some of the code beneath the nodes I use oh so often.

Vid I followed for anyone interested: tinyurl.com/yj2vhm6p

#GLSL #Shader #VFX #RTVFX #GameDev
December 4, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Playing with mixing a cloth sim from #houdini with #liquigen tonight. Pretty cool to be able to mix the two together relatively easily. But getting the settings JUST right has been tough...

Either way fun little experiment!

#vfx
November 25, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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Started watching someone play Bayonetta 3 yesterday, and realized I've never tried to do any attack FX.

So we mocked up the basics of one today!

#ue5 #unreal #vfx #rtvfx #gamedev
November 21, 2024 at 2:45 AM
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Put together my first little procedural tool for UE5 from Houdini today! It's pretty basic, but also super cool to be able to instance objects onto ANY surface automatically!

#houdini #ue5 #vfx #rtvfx
November 16, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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It took me all, and I mean ALL day. But I finally made my first procedural model, defined in Houdini, but with full customization on the fly in Unreal.

The model itself wasn't that hard. Getting the Houdini Engine plugin to work on Linux was an all day effort though 😩

#houdini #UE5 #VFX
November 13, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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First real try at a decent Sim in LiquiGen! Pretty happy with it, although I had issues with it exporting velocity errors, meaning motion blur can't be used in animations yet.
All in all a fun study today though! 🌊🌊🌊

#vfx #Liquigen #Blender
November 13, 2024 at 5:24 AM
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Added some heat distortion, and more importantly, the foundation to have my little fireball singe the earth it passes over!

Need to start refining the masks/textures etc, but glad to have the tech side of things blocked out.

#ue5 #vfx #rtvfx #wip
November 1, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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Making a little Pyroblast FX to play with importing from Embergen to UE5! 🔥🔥

#vfx #rtvfx #Embergen #ue5
October 30, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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Playing around with some more Embergen tonight! 🔥

#vfx
October 29, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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My most recent finished A-Z FX!
www.artstation.com/artwork/NqqAnb

#fx #vfx #rtvfx #UnrealEngine #ue5
October 23, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Picked up EmberGen again yesterday and started playing around. Always impressed at how quick and easy you can get things up and running!

#vfx #rtvfx #gamedev
October 23, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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More Embergen practice. I could stare at this stuff all day. 😵‍💫
#vfx
October 23, 2024 at 8:01 PM