Jon Valdés
jon-valdes.bsky.social
Jon Valdés
@jon-valdes.bsky.social
Wearing all the hats I possibly can at the Frostbite Rendering team
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i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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I’m excited to announce the release of Spark 1.3 and the launch of spark.js, our new JavaScript API for real-time GPU texture compression on the web.

ludicon.com/sparkjs
spark.js
Real-Time GPU Texture Codecs for the Web
ludicon.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I'm so happy to share that the stairs update is liiiiiive. This is by far our biggest update that we've been cooking since *checks calendar* omg, since March x_x Huge thanks to everyone who helped us test it while in beta <3

Now lemme walk you through some of the new shinies 🧵
July 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
For-Profit (Creative) Software
YouTube video by EndVertex
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March 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I just released the Museum of All Things version 1.0!!! You can find it at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...
February 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Here's a recording of my Tiny Glade presentation from the Graphics Programming Conference 2024:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusW...

It's an any% speedrun of our GPU-driven rendering, shadows, global illumination, water, and DoF, involving a few weird tricks.
Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching
YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference
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December 5, 2024 at 2:19 AM