Natanel Apfel
@natapfel.bsky.social
Principal Technical Artist @ Riot Games. Prev Rocksteady & Path of Exile. He/they 🌈⭐
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Still one of the cleanest VFX breakdowns ever dropped Timeless Hades magic #Hades #VFXBreakdown #GameDev #VisualEffects #SupergiantGames
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Still one of the cleanest VFX breakdowns ever dropped Timeless Hades magic #Hades #VFXBreakdown #GameDev #VisualEffects #SupergiantGames
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Working on a new approach to cloud rendering with custom cloud shapes that react to lighting ☁️
#gamedev #indiegamedev #unity3d
#gamedev #indiegamedev #unity3d
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Working on a new approach to cloud rendering with custom cloud shapes that react to lighting ☁️
#gamedev #indiegamedev #unity3d
#gamedev #indiegamedev #unity3d
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Attempted going back to Twitter, and was immediately reminded of why I left to begin with, def still a nazi shithole full of the most illiterate dumbfucks imaginable, bleak doesn't begin to cover it. Then I remembered I had an account on here, so might as well use it. Will be posting backlog now
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Attempted going back to Twitter, and was immediately reminded of why I left to begin with, def still a nazi shithole full of the most illiterate dumbfucks imaginable, bleak doesn't begin to cover it. Then I remembered I had an account on here, so might as well use it. Will be posting backlog now
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Compression is probably gonna do a number on this video, but let’s see! Playing around with a little experiment, making an effect of a ghostly creature that’s only visible when it’s being rained on. Thanks @laynestokes.bsky.social for advice with improving this! #vfx #realtimevfx
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Compression is probably gonna do a number on this video, but let’s see! Playing around with a little experiment, making an effect of a ghostly creature that’s only visible when it’s being rained on. Thanks @laynestokes.bsky.social for advice with improving this! #vfx #realtimevfx
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I got a bit too excited to share this and ignored how intense that banding looks with subtractive density
So a couple of days of head scratching (and banging) later, I figured a way to make it much smoother ✨
So a couple of days of head scratching (and banging) later, I figured a way to make it much smoother ✨
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I got a bit too excited to share this and ignored how intense that banding looks with subtractive density
So a couple of days of head scratching (and banging) later, I figured a way to make it much smoother ✨
So a couple of days of head scratching (and banging) later, I figured a way to make it much smoother ✨
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going to great lengths to make my outline shader as hand-drawn as possible
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
going to great lengths to make my outline shader as hand-drawn as possible
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No animations just IK and code for dynamically posing the driver. Still a lot more to do but I’m happy with the progress.
October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
No animations just IK and code for dynamically posing the driver. Still a lot more to do but I’m happy with the progress.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Big ol' Warhammer (fanart!) poster I did for the Apothecarion charity event. This was a massive undertaking for mw, it's the most complex thing I've ever done and the first piece of (semi) personal art I've completed in about 10 years.
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Big ol' Warhammer (fanart!) poster I did for the Apothecarion charity event. This was a massive undertaking for mw, it's the most complex thing I've ever done and the first piece of (semi) personal art I've completed in about 10 years.
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In the past, I'd always visualized streams by simulating particles and connecting them. I realized I can instead place points at consistent times along projected trajectories from a history buffer of launch params. Probably not a novel idea, but it's neat!
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
October 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
In the past, I'd always visualized streams by simulating particles and connecting them. I realized I can instead place points at consistent times along projected trajectories from a history buffer of launch params. Probably not a novel idea, but it's neat!
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
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I have been in the hyperbolic time chamber for the past few months and have emerged with news: I am officially a Houdini Guy now and did a bunch of cool tech art stuff in my latest project, which is a procedural cliff generator!
Check it out:
www.artstation.com/artwork/K38dVy
Check it out:
www.artstation.com/artwork/K38dVy
October 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I have been in the hyperbolic time chamber for the past few months and have emerged with news: I am officially a Houdini Guy now and did a bunch of cool tech art stuff in my latest project, which is a procedural cliff generator!
Check it out:
www.artstation.com/artwork/K38dVy
Check it out:
www.artstation.com/artwork/K38dVy
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Aside from sprite work, I’ve been learning and doing some VFX. Here’s a compilation of the ones I made on Threads of Time:
September 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Aside from sprite work, I’ve been learning and doing some VFX. Here’s a compilation of the ones I made on Threads of Time:
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So it works now!
If you have Bakery, can you try getting the latest github patch and using it?
Add "Bakery Light Filter" component to an object to make it act like stained glass 😋
(video from RTPreview for fanciness, but it looks the same when baked)
#gamedev
If you have Bakery, can you try getting the latest github patch and using it?
Add "Bakery Light Filter" component to an object to make it act like stained glass 😋
(video from RTPreview for fanciness, but it looks the same when baked)
#gamedev
September 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
So it works now!
If you have Bakery, can you try getting the latest github patch and using it?
Add "Bakery Light Filter" component to an object to make it act like stained glass 😋
(video from RTPreview for fanciness, but it looks the same when baked)
#gamedev
If you have Bakery, can you try getting the latest github patch and using it?
Add "Bakery Light Filter" component to an object to make it act like stained glass 😋
(video from RTPreview for fanciness, but it looks the same when baked)
#gamedev
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How to make a light beam shader in godot + download
Light beam shader in godot
So I was noclipping through d1_canals_08 in HL2 as one normally does on a saturday night when I saw this:
A nice sharp volumetric light that does a lot for the mood of the scene.
Half Life 2 was relea...
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September 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
How to make a light beam shader in godot + download
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Trying out Niagara's Dynamic Mesh interface to generate procedural grass on the GPU🧐
This is a single mesh with no vertex shader. Quadratic curves are animated and vertices are positioned along them to best face the camera, ribbon-style. Landscape is sampled for Z projection.
This is a single mesh with no vertex shader. Quadratic curves are animated and vertices are positioned along them to best face the camera, ribbon-style. Landscape is sampled for Z projection.
August 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Trying out Niagara's Dynamic Mesh interface to generate procedural grass on the GPU🧐
This is a single mesh with no vertex shader. Quadratic curves are animated and vertices are positioned along them to best face the camera, ribbon-style. Landscape is sampled for Z projection.
This is a single mesh with no vertex shader. Quadratic curves are animated and vertices are positioned along them to best face the camera, ribbon-style. Landscape is sampled for Z projection.
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As requested the wrinkle setup has been put up on Gumroad for free: bbbn19.gumroad.com/l/xxroj #b3d #shader #geometrynodes
August 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
As requested the wrinkle setup has been put up on Gumroad for free: bbbn19.gumroad.com/l/xxroj #b3d #shader #geometrynodes
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All the shaders I’ve created so far while developing the Godot Shaders Bible 🙂 jettelly.com/bundles/the-...
#godot
#godot
August 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
All the shaders I’ve created so far while developing the Godot Shaders Bible 🙂 jettelly.com/bundles/the-...
#godot
#godot