MacKenzie Shirk
@mac_shirk
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Senior Environmental Artist @JangaFX - Prev. @RockstarGames Opinions are my own.
Toronto, Ontario
Joined June 2013
Unstable Ice Artifact - Inspired by Stalker 2 and made with IlluGen
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Realising you completley bungled the months budget catastrophically and it happens to be Christmas..... Anyone got any short term mini gigs going? Art, Consults, etc
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This flew right by me. UE 5.7 has tons of UV coordinate functions built right in! 👀 Triplanar, HexTile, Cell Bomb, Octaplanar and many many more! ✨ @UnrealEngine #gamedev
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Elemental Suite 2026 Teaser: We're super excited for the next year! More innovation, more visual effects, more game development expansion. EmberGen 2, IlluGen 1.2+, LiquiGen 1.1+. #gamedev #realtimevfx
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If this isn’t proof of the Dead Internet Theory then I don’t know what is. All the comments, the replies, it’s all bots.
Upscale low-quality images via Nano Banana Pro! 🍌 Prompt: > Upscale this picture to 4K resolution. - Huge thanks to @BasedLabsAI for giving me access to this model. 🔥
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Next year we'll be building bridges from EmberGen, LiquiGen, and IlluGen to the top 3 game engines. IlluGen will be getting graph conversion support to shaders in all 3 engines which is a major upgrade and yup, we'll be supporting Godot!
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Procedural rockets test I made a while back, the smoke/fire simulation is made in Embergen, some of them go dim because they get out of my thin domain #b3d #blender #geometrynodes
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EmberGen 2 combustion R&D. 750 million voxels at around 2.5 FPS. Sped up by a factor of 10 for playback. A quantum leap in quality.
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'Half-Life 3' will not be an Epic Games Store exclusive. Instead, it will release on Steam at launch.
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We’re excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our flagship VR game, this Thursday at 10am Pacific Time. Can’t wait to share it with all of you!
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Shared by Eli Bowes, who used LiquiGen, GeoGen, C4D & Redshift to create this beach vibe for a private bar
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I just released a tutorial about creating lens flares, glows for sprites, and other VFX texture types! This is essentially a 45 minute masterclass for IlluGen for this type of work. If you're interested in using a procedural tool built specifically for VFX in games, check this
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If you live in the US and you want to help your favorite software company out, call your congressional representative and tell them to remove the 15 year amortization tax penalties for having foreign software contractors inside of the Section 174 R&D law. With Section 174
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