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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work!

@brentreel.bsky.social
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VFX Artist who enjoys all the bangs, booms, swooshes and sparkles! Focused on Realtime for Game Dev, but occasionally dip into other branches.

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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Yesterday I got to take part in a live portfolio review by @beyond-fx.bsky.social ! It was fun and insightful, and I wanted to give a quick shout out to say thank you to the team that put it on! Getting professional feedback is so valuable and hard to come by, so I really appreciate ya'll doing it!
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Got to take some time to play with Illugen for the first time today! I really just bashed around and was able to get to something pretty decent in like a hr! Felt very at home for someone comfy in UE's material editor! #fx #vfx #gameart
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The consistent scams from posting something on ArtStation is insane. I posted 2 projects today, and I've already received 8 emails from people asking to "put my work in their art gallery", or "Purchase my work for their wedding invite" I'm a VFX artist. You hanging up a monitor in your "gallery"?
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Last week I finished up @vfxapprentice.bsky.social 's bootcamp taught by @dianasimonyan.bsky.social Had a lot of fun, learned a lot, and after one last pass on all our FX, they are ready to share! Other fX in the thread below, since Bsky wont let me add more then 1 in a post 🙃 #vfx #rtvfx
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Oh hey! 👋 Been gone for a bit, life and what not. But one of the things I've been doing is a VFX Bootcamp, and while working on my Ink splash tonight, UE Crashed (Big surprise) But the good news is the frame it happened to crash on was a pretty good freeze frame, so thought I'd share 🙃 #VFX
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Kate✨STUFFSCAPE Game @shrimpsykate.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Texture preparation in Substance Designer for one of my triangle shader I've posted a while ago 🔺 Chosing random grayscale values → set up a nice red to yellow fading in Unreal (shown next time) ✨ #vfxkate #vfx #UE5 #substancedesigner #UnrealEngine
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samuellundsten.bsky.social @samuellundsten.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Now and then, I open this up and watch the procedural animation, amused by how silly it looks.
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OG_ArchNME @og-archnme.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Happy #VFXFriday #VFX #Realtimevfx #UE5
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Mathieu Rakoto -🛎️Open to work 🛎️ @regulusartiste.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I forgot to post my work again here! It's a fan art from the game "Mario + The Lapins Crétins: Kingdom Battle" #vfx #realtimevfx #VFXFriday #unreal #fanart #ubisoft #mario
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Klaus ✨ open for work! @foxician.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A ghostly trail drifting in circles. #realtimevfx
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fxyz @fxyz1234.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
#realtimeVFX 개인작
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Niels Dewitte ニルス @nielsdewitte.be · 18/01/2025
Super old energy sketch #rtvfx
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Manus @manusvfx.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Very early WIP of the new VFX I'm working on :D It's gonna be really cool when I add everything else I want there :D #RealtimeVFX #VFX #unity
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Matt Englehart | VFX Artist @matte-fxart.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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
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Asher Zhu @vuthric.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Taking the chance to repost some useful stuff I made in the past There is a secret Volumetric Painting tool I hid in the #UE5 Valley of the Ancient demo project (free) You can paint how wind flows, affecting fog, sand and small debris #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx
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Audrey 🌸 @audsaudfx.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Ended the year with a study of Brimstone’s smoke from Valorant! I think I’ll make a fiery variant based on Phoenix next :) Happy New Years everyone!! 🎉 #rtvfx #realtimevfx #vfx #ue5
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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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1MAFX / VFX Artist @1mafx.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
OK, the portal is done, including opening, closure, and BP implementation with keyboard controls, with around 3h+ content. #vfx #vfxfriday #unrealengine5 #ue5 #realtimevfx
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John Emerson @jemerson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Getting ready to open myself up again for contracts and jobs. If you're looking for a real time visual effects artist (#rtvfx #fx #gamedev) then feel free to give me a shout. johnemerson.artstation.com
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Lead VFX Artist
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Leonardo Biz Villar✨| VFX @leobizaz.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Starting the year off with something to post on #VFXFriday !! It's still unfinished, but I figured its looking good enough to share 😀 Feedbacks are appreciated! #rtvfx #realtimevfx #vfx #unity #gamedev #art #gameart
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Today in my VFX journey.... Learned you can make a super simple and CHEAP distortion material without using any refraction! Prefect way to help keep your FX a little bit more performant! #vfx #gamedev #ue5
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Back from holidays, and made some great progress today! I was able to get all of my assets tied together with an FX, so my wind system cranks up to 10 when it appears! I don't have it changing the water yet, but it's def giving my whole scene a feeling of cohesion! #rtvfx #unreal #gamedev
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Alfiia Mustafina, PhD @alfia-mustafina.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
DTI tractography from the Calgary Preschool MRI Dataset from the Developmental Neuroimaging Lab. 3dSlicer for data extraction, Houdini for mesh optimization and animation, Redshift for rendering was used #mri #dti #tractography #houdini #sidefx #redshift #neuro #reconstruction @sidefx.bsky.social
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Using a noise texture to cull out particles for a more organic distribution! (And to have more control to mask out problem spots 🔪) #rtvfx #niagara #ue5 #gamedev
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Stormhound ✨VFX Artist @stormhound.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Realistic Explosion with #EmberGen Artstation - www.artstation.com/artwork/lGN6bY #vfxfriday #vfx #realtimevfx #ue5
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Started working on a new scene today, so I can try out some of the new techniques I learned! Specifically, I want to build up a weather system to control the whole scene. So far we have the start to some wind changing the tree leaves, falling leaves, and water pan direction! #rtvfx #unreal #gamedev
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Continuing from yesterday, I finally learned how to have my particles interact with other objects in the world! Hint: The Masks Module in Niagara is stronk 💪 #rtvfx #vfx #gamedev #Unreal #niagara
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Niels Dewitte ニルス @nielsdewitte.be · 17/12/2024
Old ice effect
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Tuatara @tuataragames.com · 17/12/2024
Check out some of the gameplay effects we’ve developed in collaboration with Counterplay Games for the Shield in #Godfall #realtimevfx #vfx #gamedev #unrealengine
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Learned a cool new technique for feeding game world values into Niagara to make a more dynamic FX! Super cool and opens a lot of doors 👀 Here's some snow where the wind value increases as you place it higher in the world! #rtvfx #unreal #gamedev
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Technically Inept @lobsterwizard.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
╰(*°▽°*)╯Defeated the final boss of translucency sorting╰(*°▽°*)╯ Onto the next battle we ride at dawn ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ #vfx #realtimevfx #ue5 #gamedev #niagara #stylized #wip #art
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celyk @celykdev.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
My black hole shader #godot #realtimevfx
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adamswaab.bsky.social @adamswaab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"No Shelter" Audio by Pelican Sound From 2021, one of my more complicated loops. Lots of hard drive space filled up on this one.
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Technically Inept @lobsterwizard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
behold progress on Orb. #vfx #ue5 #shaders
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Etienne Marie @e2n.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
More #surfpunk stuff. Spawning VFX : Custom decal, particles and vertex/fragment shader. #gamedev #shaders #vfx #realtimevfx #unity3D #techart
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Today I Learned: You can enable "Determinism" on your emitters to let you scrub your FX backwards in Niagara. Just be sure to turn it back off when your done so your FX still has random seeds at the end! #ue5 #rtvfx #gamedev
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Aleksei Kim @alexkimvfx.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#VFXFriday Excited to share my latest real-time VFX: an ice magic effect! ❄️💥 Worked on it over 1.5 months, featuring projectiles, impacts, and growing ice chunks. Explored materials, EmberGen smoke, freezing mechanics, and UE5 blueprints. Check it out on ArtStation: www.artstation.com/artwork/zx5r1m
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Technically Inept @lobsterwizard.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
more orb ( •̀ ω •́ )y #UE5 #VFX #Niagara #gamedev
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HoldimProvae @holdimprovae.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This sketch was designed for submission to the FX102 Game Effect Competition held by the Korean VFX artist community. The theme of this competition was 'Fire' AS: www.artstation.com/artwork/dy4GXJ YT: youtu.be/jnxWiCQ4th4 #gamedev #realtimeVFX #Niagara #FX102 #VFX #UnrealEngine #VFXFriday #ue5
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Simonschreibt @simonschreibt.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New VFX/Tech Art Newsletter is out! 📃Read online: simonschreibt.de?na=view&id=14 ✋Subscribe: simonschreibt.de/newsletter/ #gamedev #techart #realtimevfx @froyok.fr @cyanilux.bsky.social
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Took my first stab at some Shader code today, with GLSL! Not exactly sure when I would use this, but it was fun to explore, and see some of the code beneath the nodes I use oh so often. Vid I followed for anyone interested: tinyurl.com/yj2vhm6p #GLSL #Shader #VFX #RTVFX #GameDev
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GrowlingVarla @growlingvarla.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Cold ❄️ #vfx #vfxart #gamedev
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Playing with mixing a cloth sim from #houdini with #liquigen tonight. Pretty cool to be able to mix the two together relatively easily. But getting the settings JUST right has been tough... Either way fun little experiment! #vfx
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Stormhound ✨VFX Artist @stormhound.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
More variants + small breakdown / tutorial on artstation www.artstation.com/artwork/2BWb6g
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Mart 🪼 @eggsthetic.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
💚 Healing AoE 🟢 #vfx #rtvfx #gameart #unrealengine
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Started watching someone play Bayonetta 3 yesterday, and realized I've never tried to do any attack FX. So we mocked up the basics of one today! #ue5 #unreal #vfx #rtvfx #gamedev
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Put together my first little procedural tool for UE5 from Houdini today! It's pretty basic, but also super cool to be able to instance objects onto ANY surface automatically! #houdini #ue5 #vfx #rtvfx
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Brent Reel | VFX Artist | Looking for Work! @brentreel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It took me all, and I mean ALL day. But I finally made my first procedural model, defined in Houdini, but with full customization on the fly in Unreal. The model itself wasn't that hard. Getting the Houdini Engine plugin to work on Linux was an all day effort though 😩 #houdini #UE5 #VFX
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