VFX | BRONZE

The badge holder is able to:

• Use industry-standard tools (e.g. Photoshop, Blender, After Effects, Houdini) to create basic VFX.
• Follow the creative vision and established art style, ensuring effects fit within the overall aesthetic of the project.
• Prototype simple VFX aligned with project requirements and technical constraints, ensuring they function properly in game engines.
• Implement and utilise basic VFX techniques, such as particle systems, animated textures, simple shaders, timing, scale, and impact.
• Create basic particle systems to represent simple effects like sparks, smoke, fire, and simple explosions.
• Integrate pre-made VFX assets into game engines (e.g. Unreal, Unity), ensuring they trigger correctly in response to game events or player actions.
• Collaborate with designers to understand the desired visual style and apply basic animation techniques to UI elements (e.g. buttons, icons, transitions).