Shiny Side Games

07/29/2016

VFX Workshop went really well!! (...After we tackled some technical difficulties with Skype.) Made exploding stars and twinkling sparkles and floating balloons and -- unexpectedly -- "programmed" them into the shell of a target practice mini-game.

Jerell Clark Victor Simpson Kyle Knight

Next week, we'll be continuing with some more stylized effects. We will be taking a look at AnimTrails to add some particles coming off of flapping Skullbat wings, setting up some basic beam/lightning emitters, and playing more with smoke, dust, bubbles, and other cartoonish effects. Stay tuned for dates/times of future Workshops (TBD, but probably same bat time, same bat channel).

07/28/2016

Went ahead and stacked those alphas into RGB channels for you guys.

Shared with Dropbox

07/26/2016

Shared with Dropbox

07/25/2016

For anyone who's interested, I'll be doing a particle demo session sometime this coming week on Skype. We'll be working in Unreal's Cascade (particle) Editor, and building a bunch of different particles. For this particular demo, we'll be focusing on stylized cartoonish particle effects that you might see in a mobile game or kids' game.

At least some of the effects we'll be dipping into:

Rainbow streams
Exploding stars
Orbiting sparks
Spinning rings
Floating balloons
and maybe more if there's still time

The only thing you need is Unreal Engine 4 (preferably 4.11.2) and Skype. I'll post an event for the exact date and time, as well as my Skype info, tomorrow. I will also post a link to a free alpha sprite package that we'll be working from.

I expect this session to run at least 3 hours.

Any questions or requests, please post in the comments.

07/25/2016

Thanks everyone for coming out and chilling at Boxcar for a while. It was nice to get to hang in a less work-focused setting and play some arcade games.

07/21/2016

Was glad to present Ori'Enne: Trials of the Void Forge last night to the world for the first time. We'll be posting more info in the coming weeks about where the game is heading, but for now here's a glimpse under the hood at what went into this project and what we've had a blast doing for the last nine weeks.

(Note: There will be a second of these posts in the near-future with even more behind the scenes looks at Ori'Enne and her Trials.)

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07/13/2016