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Fran García
@phrancis.bsky.social
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Lead VFX Artist @Heart Machine
Hyper Light Breaker, Blade Runner, Solar Ash, Godfall, Assassins Creed, Red Dead Redemption, Gears of War, Castlevania

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phrancis.bsky.social
This is outstanding work. Congrats.
I love the timing and colors. Really well done!
December 23, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Reposted by Fran García
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Funny story: Journey had no automatic shadows. I painted them all by hand. The shadow texture was not hi-res. To get the iconic sunset columns to cast sharp shadows, I made sure that they aligned with the pixel grid of the texture. Here you can see the shadow map I painted.
The sunset tunnel moment from the game Journey, where the player slides from right to left past columns throwing shadows towards the camera. The bright glowing sun sets behind the distant mountain. The scene is tinted in glowing warm shades. This is a black and white texture I hand painted to map shadows into the downhill scene in the game Journey. Most games generate these textures automatically, but I did it by hand because we did not have the tools to do so during Journey's development. A close up of my hand painted shadow texture, showing that the shadows of the columns in the sunset tunnel were aligned with the pixels of the texture to achieve maximum sharpness in game, despite the resolution of the texture being very small for the amount of area it was covering.
November 23, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Reposted by Fran García
dpandaheart.bsky.social
Wishlist link💛✨️
store.steampowered.com/app/1534840/...
Hyper Light Breaker on Steam
Enter the Overgrowth, a new realm in the world of Hyper Light. Play alone or with friends to explore open worlds, create new builds, rip through hordes and overcome the Crowns and the Abyss King.
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November 10, 2024 at 7:52 PM
phrancis.bsky.social
Wow, this looks spectacular!
November 5, 2024 at 7:56 AM
phrancis.bsky.social
We had so much fun working on Solar ❤️
October 27, 2024 at 8:23 PM
phrancis.bsky.social
Be honest, you are ignoring me :-p
October 27, 2024 at 7:47 PM
phrancis.bsky.social
I’m so happy to hear that. This was a result of all techniques I learned (or heard about) during the past. Because I didn’t have graphics engineer support, most of the time, I decided to try something myself and it came out quite decent :-)
October 26, 2024 at 1:16 PM
phrancis.bsky.social
My name is Francisco García-Obledo and I’m a VFX Artist working in games since 2005. Projects I worked on: Hyper Light Breaker, Solar Ash, Assassins Creed Valhalla, Red Dead 2, Gears of War HD, Candy Crush and more. I live in Barcelona, Spain
October 25, 2024 at 9:14 AM