Matt Englehart | VFX Artist

Been sick for almost 3 weeks, what a plague to catch.
Still, was able to remake a old sequence as a first pass.
Also got to play with Houdini for the crater which was a blast.

#unity #realtimeVFX #vfx #monster #stylized

Thanks 😊

Taking a stab at solo dev and teaching myself Unreal 5's Blueprint system in the process.
Keeping the visuals real basic till I get the gameplay feeling tight, cause I know I'll get distracted if I don't 😅
#gamedev #game #dev #UE5 #UnrealEngine #blueprints #indiegames

Damn that feels good! 🤩

I almost wish little bits of fire would “bounce” forward off the impact and fade/shrink to nothing
But I love it so far

Better than some of the UI designs I’ve suffered through 😂😅

So much cozy. Loving the tree and bushes.

Love the trickery, lol
Looks great 👍

Been struggling to add more of these since a lot of the old .FBX files of these turrets and characters got corrupted.

But today, found the .max files and quickly downloaded a trial of 3DS max to open them and they work!

Going to add more, keeps my sanity going with this rough job market 😅

Reworked up the Flamethrower mod for the Cannon from my first mobile game, MonstroCity.
Modernized it and got it looking a lot more "liquidy fire"

Turret rotates slightly each time it fires to really spread the damage.

#realtimeVFX #vfx #rtvfx #unity #gamedev #gameart

Needed a dock in MonstroCity, just reuse 2 wagons & hide the wheels with some well placed boulders to ground it.

#success

Love the beam of light that spins faster to show you the timeline of the explosion, it’s so thematic and cute 🤩

Feel that.
Hoping 2025 sparkles as well as our VFX on the job front

Finished up the reworked Zap Turret VFX from my first mobile game, MonstroCity.
Even was able to salvage up the original audio with it.

MonstroCity was my first job as a VFX artist 8 years ago, feels almost wild and therapeutic to remake it

#realtimeVFX #gamedev #gameart

Been lost to a moody brain, then thought, "Hey, why don't you remake some of the first VFX you ever did?!"

So, first pass of me remaking the Zap Turret VFX from MonstroCity.

Going to really work on that hit effect more, but I do love the "wet" nature of the beam

#RealtimeVFX #gamedev #gameart

Beautiful work, I’ve been playing and writing notes on some of these to replicate for fun 🤩

Getting into the environment now, just trying out grass to see what I can pull off.
Pleased for a first pass
Gotta maximize the cute nature vibes.
See what it'll look like with flowers, bugs and trees soon.

#VFX #RTVFX #Unity #Shadergraph

I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff.

I like this version of social media, and the world.

Thanks, folks.

First little experience with Houdini (one hell of a complicated program) but that was cool once it got working.
Rest of it is made in Unity
#VFX #Houdini #Unity #TimeSpell

The blood splatters give me joy <3

Working a fun game with some other ex-Alpha Dog buddies and did some VFX exploration towards our "new" horde shooting game. This was really fun to be just wild and try new stuff.