Discover how Disney's 'Wish' used Houdini to create Star's dust trails, King Magnifico's magic effects, and 1,923 floating wish bubbles, blending hand-drawn artistry with procedural techniques for their 100th anniversary film.
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Distort textures by simply lerping between texture coordinates and a checkerboard texture with randomized R and G values for a tiling effect. To add chromatic aberration, simply shift the G channel’s UVs using a sine wave #gamedev #VFX #UnrealEngine #realtimeVFX

I might start using Bluesky as a means to blog some of the progress on this side project.

Today I fixed up the placement and alignment algorithm for the rooms so that the dungeon wouldn't snake back on itself. I'd like to start trying it out with custom non-uniform rooms.

#godot

Been messing with Godot in my free time making a dungeon generator from pre-fab rooms. It's super enjoyable, but the process feels like an uphill marathon. So far rooms are connected via their door nodes linearly. Next steps are to add collision detection so it doesn't loop back on itself.

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I wrapped up on Moana 2 a few months ago and just had the opportunity to see it at our wrap party. It is incredible how far it has come since the first preview I saw when I started on the project. Go see it in theaters!

youtu.be/hDZ7y8RP5HE?...

I find the balance of pursuing passion vs pursuing meaningful growth to be extremely difficult.

While the layoffs and state of the industry recently has gotten me down, on the bright side I am very motivated to work at home on my own growth which has been a very liberating feeling. 😁

Starting my journey in real-time VFX. VFXA has been amazing so far, can't wait to keep grinding 😁

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