Hey, so I’ve been posting some of my work occasionally on Discord, but I figured it would be better to put it all here, this way it doesn’t get lost with time.
Please do not hesitate to give feedback and criticisms, I need them to improve ! 
LATEST UPDATE :
I’m not gonna leave this first post blank, so here’s some effects I made during the last week :
I’m trying to learn both traditional and 3D VFX as you can see, so it’s gonna be very diverse I think, let me know what you think ! 
Beautiful stuff, can you talk through your green smoke and your approach. It’s great!
I like it man, with the coint toss you can try to leave the sparks at the end a longer for a more juicyer feeling
Thanks,
So the green smoke effect is a “spawning” effect that’s supposed to be put in an isometric setting. That’s why you see a part of it coming down.
I do know that it’s a bit hard to understand without context, but i’ll try to add more context to it once I gather my work to make a traditional fx reel.
As for the inspiration, my main reference was Dofus’ spawning fx. I couldn’t find an image on google but it looks close to this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqP_PVuWgAAi9N-.jpg
Thanks, yeah i’ve hesitated about doing that, my concern was that it would affect readability and the “quickness” of it.
I know adding timing contrast looks good, but in my head that effect could be casted multiple times quite quickly, so I didn’t want to leave it too long on screen
I’ll probably give it a shot when I have time though, thanks for the suggestion
Hello darkness my old friend 
Ahh, which program did you animate in? Sorry I was particularly vague about my question.
Hey, this is done in Unity 
Butterflies 
Magic grenade 
Hey it’s been some time, I made this sand shader yesterday and thought I would post it over here
It’s inspired by Journey, I think it’s pretty obvious 
Unfortunately, the compressing makes the sparkles in the sand less apparent and messier, also the sand is more grainy. Since this is per-pixel details, it doesn’t come out great with compression 
Feel free to give feedback, or ask questions if you have any. 
Here’s a still shot so you can see the “graininess” a bit more
Hey, Cool stuff! Are you using a flipbook in the green smoke effect? Or something else?
Hey it’s just flipbook yeah, it’s traditional animation
nice sand! but it looks a bit too “wet” too me. i think journey is a good reference for strong spec reflections but still a dry look: https://youtu.be/T8LzZj51ef4?t=1925
I agree I still have to figure out a better way of doing ocean type spec reflections, right now i’m doing calculations based on Blinn-Phong Half vector, but it’s not working really well. If you have any references or suggestions for that, don’t hesitate to share them, I’d appreciate it a lot
Also the shader is pretty flexible, I can also have less wet sand, and even snow-like behaviour :
Amazing… loved it
