@r13: O I just assumed that's why they put "must be good with particles in this package etc etc". Gonna check out that Eat 3d tutorial. Thanks for the tidbits of awesomness r13 :)
since this thread seems old...are there still so little resources/tutorials/etc... for FX artist? I'm going through Unitys videos about it but Id be curious to see other FX artist' techniques and how they optimize for mobile or various platforms.
Bills stuff is awesome. https://www.youtube.com/user/imbuefx/videos. Jason Keyser has some good breakdowns for 2d effects also learn a bit about animation timing etc. https://www.youtube.com/user/jasonkeyser Eat3d has some good ones too. Not sure about unity specific but I'm sure most of those video core concepts can be…
Thread resurrection! Me and a the other vfx artists here were looking at CoD:Blops a while ago and you can see that they actually turn off entire explosions, mid sequence, when a new one starts (usually when you have 3-4 big explosions at the same time, one gets turned off when a new one starts). You don't notice it when…