If you want to create hand-drawn VFX, one of my buddies recommended a good book to me called Elemental Magic. It's by Joseph Gilland, an old school Disney animator. I picked up both copies and they're fantastic. Even if you do realistic VFX with smoke, fire, water, etc. these books do a great job helping you understand the…
Hello, Polycounters This topic regards something that I hold very dear since my ealiest day of gaming: Sprite particles or sprite FX, not sure how they are called but whatever, I'll give more example. You guys probably must have seen the latest Killzone or inFamous games, right. In terms of particles, they come across the…