MrHamuel's Sketchbook

Personal Work
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Hello, I am an aspiring VFX artist trying to get into the industry. Thought I should start a sketchbook to get myself to work on more things and practice more. I’m pretty bad at just making small, individual pieces instead of having to complete a whole concept and container for each effect. Hopefully this will help a bit.

Hopefully this will also help with getting a job. :slight_smile:

Any and all feedback is welcome and appreciated.

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Update from 2025: The more things change the more they stay the same.

Latest :
DarkSouls_Portal_Gif_Small

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Lets see if this works, haven’t posted much at all here so still figuring it out.

I wanted to try and recreate the folding wall effect from Control’s Ashtray Maze.

I created the initial animation in Houdini and used the labs VAT tool to bring it into unreal using vertex animation.

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Wanted to try and create a waterfall like in the game RIME. Liked how it came out so I created some stylized water and a little scene made with the Houdini Gamejam starter HDAs. It was really fun making stuff with those tools!

There are a bunch of good references and inspiration on Simon’s article [here].(Stylized VFX in RIME | Simon schreibt.)

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Heres a projectile effect I made this week. I wanted it to be a quick and snappy effect and I think I hit a nice balance.

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Black hole effect using a Houdini sim mixed with vertex animation in the shader to suck everything to the center. Gif compression hit this one pretty hard.

Here is a bit better video of it on my twitter.

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Here’s a explosion that I learned to make from a Rebelway course I’m taking. Super exciting to be learning how to create nice explosions like this.

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This is AWESOME!!!
I hope you get a job soon, you are very talented!!

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Wow, this is really awesome, man! Congratulations! :smiley:
It seems you have experience from Films Industry, is that right?

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Hopefully soon :smile: Thank you, glad you liked it.

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Thank you! @LouisBlackmouth I don’t really have that much experience in film, I’ve only just graduated from university.

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Well that’s even more impressive :open_mouth: haha

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Here’s my latest assignment I was working on. A big volcano explosion! I was able to learn lots about pyro sims for games with this and feel confident that I should be able to make many more cool explosions now. Pretty happy with how this turned out.

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I’m finally back! Unreal 4.26 just released and with it was the cool new landscape and water systems. So I got an idea of trying to turn the water into lava. It worked out decently well for being hastily thrown together.

If you want; here is a video of me using it in editor. In a bit I might post of gif of it here as well.

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Trying to get motivated to practice more vfx, so I decided to try and recreate Vergil’s Judgement Cut from Devil May Cry 5.

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Got laid off so I’m gonna try to start doing more personal projects and try to get better. Hopefully I’ll learn some new stuff.

Did this today as a small sketch, tried to kind of recreate the dlc portal from Dark Souls.
DarkSouls_Portal_Gif_Small

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