VFX Personal Challenge

Hello, it's been a while since I've posted, but I will being doing so a lot from now on! We have started our summer term at the Florida Interactive Entertainment academy and I have found my love for Visual Effects. My spring semester was geared towards Technical art subjects such as learning python and HLSL, tool building, and rigging. This semester is focused on VFX and I am super excited!

In an effort to really learn what makes an effect, I have decided to try and do an effect a day, this will mostly included particles in UE4 and simple Houdini effects. My main goal is to learn the programs and processes that are required to think in terms of effects, not necessarily coming up with effects myself. The majority of the effects I will post in the beginning will be tutorials and I'll post the link to and give credit to the creator. I will tweak things here and there when I see fit to try and create different looks/styles I am going for. I hope to be able to move away from tutorials as soon as possible and start creating effects from studies or my own imagination.

This is for fun but I would also appreciate any feedback on how I can improve or take some of these effects further!


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