Hey there, real-time VFX artists!
Starting this thread to share the VFX inspiration blogs we’re posting on the Beyond-FX Blog!
Today… LIGHTNING: Real-Time VFX Reference Vault: Lightning | Beyond-FX
Here’s one full of references for Crumbling Walls/Destruction VFX: Real-Time VFX Reference Vault: Destruction - Crumbling Walls | Beyond-FX
We’ll update this thread with more VFX reference roundups as we post them!
Today on the Beyond-FX Blog, we rounded up some of our favorite real-time VFX inspirations for EXPLOSIONS: Real-Time VFX Reference Vault: Explosions | Beyond-FX
What references do you use when creating real-time explosions? 
We have new real-time VFX references for you, and this week the theme is: space!
Any references you’d include in this list?
From waves crashing against the shoreline to liquid shifting in a glass, we bet you all can think of an example of video games with incredible water VFX.
For our VFX artists out there, we’ve compiled this handy list of references to use when creating your next real-time water effect: blog.beyond-fx.com/articles/reference-vault-water
Whether it be humans, aliens, mutants, or monsters, blood effects are essential to a character’s vulnerability, and consequence to damage or injury. It can conjure emotional reactions of sympathy, excitement, fear, and disgust through its splattering, oozing, dripping, squirting or staining.
Here’s a list of some of our favorite blood references, and in the immortalized words of Major “Dutch” Schaefer, "If it bleeds, we can kill it.”
Check out these awesome references on today’s Reference Vault blog! VFX Reference Vault: Blood
