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Trent Rommel

@trommel.bsky.social

He/him VFX Artist @ DLALA Studios

Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

👁️ playing around with material properties on my monster eye shader! Rotates toward its random looking direction now. 👀 This one has random colors based on world position #unity #vfx #realtimevfx

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

More vertex shader fun! Had to make this iconic bad boy from Zelda. All done in #unity shader graph (and blender for the modeling of course) #realtimevfx #vfx

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Vertex displacement shaders are so much fun. Doesn’t it look like these guys are having a good time? #unity #realtimevfx #gamedev

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Happy Fall of Sauron Day! I elaborated on my eye shader to make Sauron’s eye - the movement is driven by a texture with flipbook UVs such that each pixel is a frame #vfx #realtimevfx #gamedev #lotr

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

👀 playing with an eye shader today #realtimevfx #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Something I noticed in #diablo4 #vfx - it seems like they use a lot of radial velocity-aligned particles for shockwaves and such. The variation is so much nicer than a static radial texture! Here’s a quick breakdown of the method in #Unity And happy #vfxfriday!

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Happy #vfxfriday! Here’s a fire attack effect 🔥

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Kasia Brz @avatarkasia.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

After a short but sweet stint with Dlala, I'm once again available for work - full time and freelance. My portfolio is available here: 💻 www.kasiabrzezinska.com 📨 avatarkasia@gmail.com 🌍 Farnham, UK Open to remote and hybrid work Sharing appreciated #animationjobs #gamedevjobs #illustrationjobs

An owl perched up on a branch with a leaf green letter in their beak. Three mice are in a pond below it, one swimming on a leaf relaxing, one in the background drying itself after a swim, and one in the middle extending her arm towards the owl and the letter.

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

GIGASMITE! ✨⚡️ Swords in #vfx are always a good decision. Happy #vfxfriday!

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Tales @noreeartist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

💧 effect I made last year #vfxfriday #Unity #rtvfx

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Poison splat ☠️ #rtvfx #unity #vfxfriday

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Splishy splish #vfxfriday #vfx #unity

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentines Day! I’ve been calling this a “Love Bomb.” #vfx #unity #rtvfx

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I love working on water effects, there’s something so graceful about them #vfx #rtvfx #unity

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rob cupisz @robcupisz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

For the love of our eyeballs, do not align your ember particles to velocity! Don’t give them that comet texture either, ugh. Let’s make ✨physically based flying embers✨ A Unity vfx graph implementation and explanation below. 🧵

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Trent Rommel @trommel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Fun cat-splosion throwback to when I was first learning realtime #vfx! #rtvfx

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