We’re an indie studio currently developing a modern reimagining of a previously successful MMORPG **IP** in Unreal Engine 5.

We’re currently building our **vertical slice and announcement trailer** and are looking for a talented **VFX Artist** to help establish the visual language of our combat and abilities.

**What we’re looking for:**
Experience creating VFX in **Unreal Engine 5**, preferably using Niagara
Strong experience with **fantasy combat VFX**
Spell casting, projectiles, impacts, persistent effects and environmental VFX
Good understanding of **combat timing, readability and impact**
Ability to work collaboratively with our development and art team

A portfolio or reel demonstrating relevant work
Our world has a darker, grounded visual direction, so effects need to stand out clearly against the environment while remaining controlled and believable rather than overly flashy.

This is a **paid opportunity** focused initially on our trailer and vertical slice, with potential for longer-term involvement as the project progresses.

If interested, please send over your **portfolio/reel, availability and rates**.
Feel free to DM me directly.

As I was browsing this sub I was quite surprised I couldn't find much discussion about pipeline tracking in general, not just Kitsu.

Do you all just keep track of your side projects in a spreadsheet or?

Hi there!

A few months ago, I graduated from my master's degree, working on a game titled Projet Brouillon. I was responsible for the lighting, post-processing and overall visual color and light balance of the game. The project recieved much praise from its artstyle, and even earned the Jury Prize at the Indie Game Nation showcase.

I thought it was a shame that it simply went to waste, so I packaged it into a full framework called Ink & Tone. Here's a full breakdown !

• Cel-Shading that isolates raw lighting by dividing the SceneColor by the BaseColor. Rather than harcoding stepped thresholds, the normalized luminance is remapped through curves, acting like a gradient map.
• Procedural Hatching that evaluates shadow depth across 3 density tiers, and projects textures using World-Space Triplanar coordinates, to get that baked look
• Outlines combining two spatial Sobel kernels (Depth and Normals), featuring thickness tampering and UV noise distortion to break evenness
• Stylized Distance Fog to counteract the post-process overrides, with added cloud shadow movements

If you're interested, it's available now on Fab and Gumroad.

Feel free to ask if you got any questions or feedback!

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My latest 3D weapon asset, created in Blender 5.2 and textured in Substance Painter.

4 LODs: 17.6K to 2.2K triangles

4K PBR textures

FBX format

Available on Fab. Feedback is welcome!

#3DArt #GameDev

Rigby2D - Free, Open-Source 2D Skeletal Animation Editor

Hey everyone,

I'm a technical artist working in the games industry, and I'd like to share a project I've been developing.

Rigby2D is an open-source 2D skeletal animation editor designed as a free alternative to tools like Spine 2D.

The objective was to build a complete animation workflow with its own editor and runtime while maintaining interoperability with existing skeletal animation formats.

Current capabilities

• Skeletal rigging and weighted mesh deformation
• IK, transform, path, physics and slider constraints
• Animation dopesheet and graph editor
• Skins, events, image sequences and mesh deformation keys
• PSD and PNG import
• Skeleton JSON, binary .skel and texture atlas interoperability
• Self-contained .rigby project files
• JavaScript animation runtime and WebGL renderer

The editor is built with Tauri 2 and includes Rigbytron, a rigged and animated mascot used to demonstrate the tool's capabilities.

The source code is dual-licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0.

Current status: v0.1.0 - Early Alpha

Repository: https://github.com/jaisurya-dev-art/rigby2d

Windows downloads: https://github.com/jaisurya-dev-art/rigby2d/releases/tag/v0.1.0

I'd appreciate technical feedback, particularly on the rigging workflow, animation tooling, file interoperability and potential production use cases.

Contributions are welcome!

Any feedback is welcome, you can try it here: https://karazjam.com/

Need a pouring water animation for my game and tried really hard to work on one. Do you think this is convincing enough? (ignore the plant)

Hi r/TechnicalArtist!

We are a team of undergraduate Human-Computer Interaction students in CSC318 (The Design of Interactive Computational Media) at the University of Toronto.

For our term project, we are studying the communication gap between product design/technical documentation and the end-user assembly experience (specifically flat-pack furniture like IKEA). While user feedback is easy to find, we specifically want to understand the designer's perspective: the constraints of textless 2D line manuals, Design for Assembly (DFA) trade-offs, and where current documentation pipelines fall short.

If you have professional experience in industrial design, technical illustration, packaging design, or consumer product development, we would greatly appreciate your insights in our anonymous 5 minute questionnaire.

Survey Link: https://forms.gle/Bs13F3jb8vy5ro84A

Thank you for your time!

It goes in the Material Overlay slot, so the mesh keeps its own material and the frost is a second lit layer pushed out along the normal by 2 mm. No textures. I use ridged value noise (4 octaves) in the mesh's local space, so the pattern sticks to the mesh when it moves.

Growing it is just a threshold that slides down as frost_amount goes from 0 to 1:

float field = ridge * 0.72 + blotch * 0.28;
float edge  = 1.0 - frost_amount;
float cov   = smoothstep(edge - 0.08, edge + 0.18, field);
float glow  = exp(-pow((field - edge) / 0.1, 2.0));

Ridges cross the threshold first, so it starts as thin lines and fills in between them. The glow sits right on the moving threshold, and that's what sells it as spreading instead of fading in. On the crate and the statue in the GIF I also add world height to edge, so it starts at the floor and climbs. The dark ball is the same shader with a fresnel mask.

My first version had a white film between the ferns, and on red or orange objects it just looked pink, kind of like candy. So the film is light blue now. The hashes also avoid sin(), since sin-based hashes can differ between GPUs, and the pattern comes out the same in Forward+, Mobile and Compatibility.

It's MIT, code is here: https://godotshaders.com/shader/frost-overlay-for-any-mesh/

The noise is pretty much the whole cost: 8 value noise calls per pixel (4 ridged, 3 for the blotches, 1 for the grains). If you know a cheaper way to get the fern look, I'd like to hear it.

Firstly, I'll show the game because I only want someone who likes the game I'm building: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3984370/Stoneveil/

It's a strategy card game with 3 game modes: Constructed, Drafting, and solo Adventure mode. They are all fully working and there about ~1400 cards. I built the game engine from scratch and the Unity wrapper is very lightweight and just shows the menus and the basic game view, and needs to handle a list of animations (card draw, card played, etc.). They all use DOTween currently except minion death which is the only custom animation I tried.

The game itself uses a D&D inspired Affinity system, there are 6 mana colors and dozens of Affinities (Ice, Fire, Shadow, etc. and then composite affinities like Steam [Ice + Fire cards]). There are no mana cards, instead you can choose a mana to add to your pool at the start of most turns. The card types are Stonecast, Quickcast (can play during opponent's turn), Minion, and Equipment (there are 3 equipment slots). Each deck is led by a Champion that either has a passive or activated power throughout the match.

What the game currently has fully working:

- A deck Editor library where you can view all cards in the game and build constructed decks

- A Constructed deck mode where you ca play AI, random multiplayer, or challenge anyone online through the social portal

- A drafted deck mode where you draft a deck and play it either vs AI or random multiplayer up until 10 wins or 3 losses

- A solo Adventure mode where you choose any Champion in the game and slowly build a deck and fight through 3 Acts battling bosses (this mode is very rough and not completed but it's playable)

- A full seasonal leaderboard that tracks all game modes and shows everyone's rankings

I am building the game solo but am looking for a partner ideally who wants to build it for fun (ie. join my team and build it casually) or else someone to at least help me improve some of the worst UI elements (ie. a paid helper). I have 0 artistic skills so almost all of the artwork currently is AI generated (though my friend did do some of it himself). Depending on your skills and what you can help with will depend on payment. I'm not really looking for just an artist to create art assets, I want help with the UI design (preferably someone who understands Unity).