Oskar Świerad

Promotional graphic in dark muted shades showing a towering mountain peak and dense forest. Text on top reads, “The Witcher 4: The State of Unreal 2025.” The logos for CD Projekt Red and Unreal Engine are shown in a bright blue.

We'll be coming together with Unreal Engine to present during the State of Unreal.

We’re looking forward to showcasing some of the innovative technology & features that will power The Witcher 4, and beyond.

Join us at #UnrealFest — 9:30 AM ET | 3:30 PM CEST on June 3: epic.gm/state-of-unreal-2025

I've just been certified by Epic Games as an #UnrealEngine Authorized Instructor for 2025🤓🫡

Join my Discord to exchange knowledge and discuss your art, shaders, procedural🦆🎨🛠 discord.gg/4BRNBpUVbD

There was an exam–for a #UE5 generalist with Tech Art expertise –and it was *hard*😂 A good refresher

Defining Custom Material Nodes with C++ and HLSL — Mason Stevenson - Unreal Engine Generalist

New Blog Post: Ever wonder how you can create your own custom material expression nodes in Unreal?

www.exportgeometry.com/blog/definin...

#gamedev #techart #unrealengine #UE5 #shaders

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Huh! So it shows what the ceiling of engine business may be worth, right? Not much, with little space for growth... Then even if they add tremendous value, engine makers capped by customers' business limits too. And raise the costs a little too much, they will consider building own engine

Oskar Swierad on LinkedIn: #gamedev #techart #techanim #vfx #ue5 #warsaw #poland Hey! We're hiring for a very hands-on, impactful position on a fresh project - new original IP. No worries: you'll collaborate with the entire RED on tech (me…

Hey! Hiring for a very hands-on, impactful #techart position on our *new* IP. No worries: you'll co-op with the whole RED on tech (incl. me on #TheWitcher4)

We develop a mad amount of custom #gamedev tech for #UE5 so that's great for growth

Share, & apply via link www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I doubt you'll find it because an audiobook is quite an expensive undertaking. You need a good narrator. Therefore, I guess, publishers demand solid DRMs. I use Audioteka

Birdhouses for swifts on an office building's wall. Warsaw, Jagiellonska street

Sometimes it takes me a while to reply to your questions. It's not because my mailbox is full... It's simply because they hung it so high

In the meantime, hop into my personal Tech Art Aid Discord server: discord.gg/4BRNBpUVbD
People there are friendly and fascinating, so you'll fit in just right🫡

Fresnel - the classic workaround?:D
Limited by Z-up dot product to feel grounded

Fantastic execution! So "readable" and cool

Didn't get to participate in GGJ this year (or the past several years tbh) but, given the theme was "Bubble" I thought I'd reshare my anime bubble shader I made a while back, inspired by the amazing "Bubble" anime film

I said "bubble" way too much in this post, it stopped sounding like a real word

In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:

An annoying... standard, soon

Do you know the PBR "issue" when a shader blends between 2 materials, like concrete and water? The white banding on the transition? 🧐

Well, here's a concerning photo from Warsaw. Apparently Poland runs on cheaper quality settings. We do a classic lerp instead of clear-coat compositing 🫠

Yup, sorry pure sarcasm my side😆 8.25B is the Earth population :P it's a quip on the lunatic market analysts (e.g. Frostpunk2 considered a dissappoinment after it paid off in *3 days* - wonderful by any means)

I asked GPT-4o for potential strategies to reach 15B+ players:

Analysts heavily disappointed by market stagnation. "8.25B players worldwide again, unchanged for 3 quarters. If gaming sustained pandemic-era momentum, we'd easily see 10B+ players," says Bloomberg.

"The industry must commit to growth now or face further disruptions" – warns a senior fund manager

Make friends with artists, and you’ll be forever gifted with stickers 😮 They aren't good with words so that's how they express sympathy and gratitude

My gaming + Blender setup, 2007!
Yup it's Ubuntu Linux, and yes, there's an Xbox 360 somewhere... under the desk, because the thing was so noisyyy

Unfollow and choose different people :) I've seen < 4 posts about Musk since I joined

3 binks playing at the same time. It's our internal limit, for sanity, not related to the decoder itself

You can see the last one in the painted backgrounds of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 😆 For real

The Unisys Icon: One Canadian Xennial's Memories of Ontario's Obscure Computer One topic that often comes up in retro gaming circles is how aspects of gaming history not part of the American story don't get enough attention. I personally feel it's mostly up to the people to whom...

It’s important we tell our own stories if no one else does. Here is my memory of the Unisys ICON and some ICON games, a computer that only Xennials from Ontario would have used. They were almost all destroyed and no archives or emulators exist. True lost media.

postgamecontent.com/post/7717260...

Also @codekitten.me I've been arguing in the studio for years that distance-based shader optimization isn't worth it imo :D Because... it's small. So it optimizes itself. And after few dozen meters you have proxies (HLOD) anyway. But maybe I'm wrong?

POM decals were one of tech art's fav inventions in the project! Thx for putting a spotlight on them☺️ Using it on just decals amortized the cost, making it viable on XB1/PS4

We made the number of steps dependent on the angle. What you see here is probably an artifact of that (or interpolation)

Warsaw in grayscale vs Warsaw in RGB. 2025, uncolorized

Screenshot from Tech Art Aid server on Discord. I wish every member Merry Christmas! Best of luck in your: projects, studying, mentoring, job applications, raise requests, home renovations, family trips, solo adventures, book reading challenges, and strengthening friendship bonds in the upcoming 2025! partying face emoji. The post received 100 heart reactions

❤️ 100, woohoo
Feel invited – discord.gg/4BRNBpUVbD

We're highly social creatures, we want to belong to a community, & want to care for each other.
It's far more effective for us to feel that we've let someone down, than to be punished, but we need to have a sense of responsibility first. Then we get the rewards & security from that community

I don't remember that scene! Gotta check it out 😁

The recruitment process for a technical artist is still an arduous process. It's not easy to find a person who fits your particular definition of the role. What if we...grew them internally instead? Let me reveal: the tech art hatching pod. Genetically engineered to your needs