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Ideas, small experiments, and things I’ve learned while making real-time effects and textures.

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FX PLAYGROUND

20 APRIL 2025ORIGINAL ON ARTSTATION ↗

Disclaimer: These are just smaller things I engaged with on the side for fun—quick ideas, effects, or tests I enjoyed playing around with. They’re not polished or portfolio-focused, just creative detours and playful moments.

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Gommage (Expedition 33)

Niagara samples the skeletal mesh to determine where particles spawn. The wind, set through a Niagara Parameter Collection, determines their direction of travel.

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Light Leaking Dissolve

Light Leaking Dissolve effect collage — Explode in radiant leaks before vanishing

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Grid Weapon Shader

Grid Weapon Shader effect comparison

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Saber Alter Sword Slash

Recreated Saber Alter sword slash compared with its reference

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Death Stranding Sci Fi Barrier

Death Stranding Sci Fi Barrier reference comparison

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Ground Fire Eruption

Final effect

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Pragmata Damage Indicator

Indicator spawn

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Flag Cloth Simulation

The cloth simulation was created in Houdini using the Vellum solver, then imported into Unreal Engine and played back in real time.