Matt Verkuijlen
@mattverkuijlen.bsky.social
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Technical Artist @ Embark Studios, previously MachineGames, RareLTD, SplashDamage, GuerrillaGames & TinyBuild. Opinions are mine, not my employers. https://matthijsverkuijlen.com/
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We're releasing a dev vlog today introducing our fans to 'dynamism', the design philosophy that drove the making of THE FINALS. We hope it gives those interested some insight into what it takes to make an crazy multiplayer sandbox FPS.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjUy...
MAKING THE FINALS | Creating a Dynamism Shooter
YouTube video by THE FINALS
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Thank you! Hearing that people like the work we do means a lot!
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All of this is a collaboration between me and many of my super talented co-workers.

A few of the people I worked on weapons with;
www.artstation.com/uddebo
artstation.com/roartal
www.artstation.com/antonsannerteg
www.artstation.com/linusscheffel
but there's many more people involved!
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The result looks great! Nice work!
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moppius.bsky.social
Hey, we are doing a tech test for #ARCRaiders at the of the month!
Sign up if you're interested, it's fun!
youtu.be/W-NUcKbwVb8
ARC Raiders | Tech Test 2 Announcement
YouTube video by ARC Raiders
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THE FINALS season 6 is out today! To celebrate I've made a video of most of the skins I've worked at for season 5
youtu.be/RQe8AKoFiBc?...

You can play THE FINALS for free here
www.reachthefinals.com
THE FINALS - Season 5 - Weapon Skins & Character Customisation
YouTube video by Matthijs Verkuijlen
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I've finally put together a video of some of the weapon and character customisation I worked on for THE FINALS season 4!
All of this work is a collaboration between me and many of my incredibly skilled colleagues at EMBARK, I mainly did materials and shaders for these skins
youtu.be/Ag_6P62vKE0?...
THE FINALS - Season 4 - Weapon Skins & Character Customisation
YouTube video by Matthijs Verkuijlen
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I'm trying out sharing some of the skins I've worked on for THE FINALS as shorts, would love to hear if you like this format or not!
youtube.com/shorts/oY65q...
THE FINALS - Season 3 - Molten Radness Charm
YouTube video by Matthijs Verkuijlen
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and these snakes were also just more of the same. Here I mainly parameterized patterns and colors to quickly generate different scale distributions.
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These windmills were another project I set up while writing this article. Maybe not very practical, but it was fun parameterizing a lot of things to quickly generate a lot of different outputs
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I really liked actually visualizing the SDF (even if it's not entirely correct all the time!) as well, so made a video of that too
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In July of 2021, I worked more on a toy renderer. I had previously followed the Ray Tracing in a Weekend books, but wanted to move that into a fragment shader in my toy render engine (which was very heavily based on learnopengl.com)
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In June of 2021, I wanted to experiment a bit with a "parallax" look without adding parallax occlusion nodes. This setup only samples the 'grate' texture twice (once with an offset), and calculates normals and masked areas from there
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February 2021 was a busy month for me apparently, as I also bought @patricio.io's PixelSpirit Deck, modified some of the cards slightly, and made all the shapes' SDFs transition into eachother
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In 2021 I also wrote an article about using PDG in Houdini. 80.lv/articles/exp...
These little procedural skeletons are probably my favorite project I built for this.
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Something I struggled with moving to a different platform has been just how much of my smaller personal projects I've only posted to twitter over the years.
So in this thread I'm going to post some of the projects I still sometimes reference, like this raymarcher I built in shader toy in 2021
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I set up my bluesky account today, so here's a showcase of the work I did on the first 3 seasons of THE FINALS! youtu.be/ikyEN0R7yuo
Maybe I should do one of these for the new season..
THE FINALS - Season 0 to 3 Skins
YouTube video by Matthijs Verkuijlen
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