Jamir Blanco shared a detailed breakdown of his amazing ice material, created with Substance Designer.

Beach study in Houdini. Special thanks to my friends who helped me to obtain this result with many tips and suggestions, especially for Raphael Vinicius who animated the butterflies. Rendered using Mantra.

Another evening doodle in PopcornFX. Can't wait for Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Sorry for the lowrescapture. I'll do a better one when I'm finished with the effect.

This is a work in progress of a cheap volumetric blood effect that hopefully will make it onto the marketplace soon. Currently focusing on getting the shader right. Tricky since I want to keep it fully opaque for performance but I'm getting there. The effect is currently using 6 particles. Right now it's also using two textures But they will be combined to one 1024 texture eventually.

The work goes on! One of the worst thing you can do to realtime vfx is run it in slowmotion as all the cheats can be seen then. I figured I'd try it today to see how bad it was. Surprisingly, while there's still work to be done, the volume and shading holds up quite well :)

lots of explosions and missiles filying around

Houdini Tuts

Learn how to create a flowmap using the new Flow Map tools in Houdini. You will see how control the flowmap velocities by using terrain geometry, a curve, and also how to manually comb it if you wish for more specific control. Then export the mesh geo, bake out the flowmap, and assemble your riverbed in Unreal Engine. Tutorial by Andreas Glad - - - - - - - vimeo.com/partikel Download scene files here - - - - - - sidefx.com/tutorials/flowmaps-houdini-for-games

Watch Sand GIF by lordonf on Gfycat. Discover more GoPro GIFs on Gfycat.

This is a closeup of an Unstable Nanite energy weapon projectile in Firefall. Built and rendered in the Firefall engine.

This is a basic, somewhat stylized electrical/lightning orb. Rendered in the Firefall engine.

Rendered in the World of Warcraft engine.

This is the beam used in the Shadowmoon Valley in-game cinematic, in the Warlords of Draenor expansion. You can see the final cinematic here: http://youtu.be...

This was one of the many effects I made for the Rage of the Firelands trailer. Rendered in World of Warcraft.

In-game effect designed for and rendered in the UDK engine. No lights - 162 Mesh Particles - 637 Sprite Particles 602 Total Tris - Less than 1024x1024 textur...

This is part of a series of more heavily stylized concept effects I made. Rendered in the Firefall game engine.

Of course I made another water shield! Rendered in the Firefall engine. This is an older water shield I made in UDK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCWMQRqMs_Y

Cinematic in-game effect designed for and rendered in the UDK engine. This entire effect is contained within a single particle emitter.

In-game effect designed for and rendered in the UDK engine. No lights - 46 Mesh Particles - 475 Sprite Particles 328 Total Tris - Less than 1024x1024 texture...

This session presents an overview of the process and technology used to create the visual effects for Br'tal Legend. The design and most commonly relied upon features of our particle rendering, simulation, effects timeline and climate packages...