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Flogelz 🎶
@flogelz.bsky.social
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🌺 Flo | Lvl. 27 | he/him | 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
💼 3D & Senior Technical Artist @ Jo-Mei
🎮 GameDev, Nintendo Lover and part-time Anime Connoisseur
🛠️ Unity, Blender, Substance, C#, HLSL

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Flogelz 🎶 @flogelz.bsky.social · Oct 22
Heyo, what's up!✨

I'm a technical artist from berlin who loves shaders and visuals of games, so you'll probably see me talk a lot about this! Let's see what this here is all about☺️

(also guilty of spending way too much time in BotW just staring at stuff for research!)
flogelz.bsky.social
@prozdishere.bsky.social Holy cow, I just read a few comments on your latest (last) twitter post and I understand now why people don't like twitter anymore, like what the hell was that-

Sorry you had to go through stuff like that man. You're awesome and I hope you have a better time here!♥️
September 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
flogelz.bsky.social
It's gamescom time today! Lets goo!✨
August 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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halisavakis.com
On that note, let's also *dive* in another favorite subject of mine:

💧 Water shaders 💧

Here's another behind-the-scenes 🧵 on the tech-art behind our water visuals in HERDLING:
Screenshot from HERDLING showing a herd of fluffy beasts and their shepherd walking across a river
August 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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florent-lebrun.bsky.social
What started as a small personal project to make another animated shot turned into a small full-fledged 2-minutes short film!
Almost done! Stay tuned :)
December 27, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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ameye.dev
🔎 Made a debugging tool which allows you to get a visual peek at the stencil buffer inside of Unity!

Grab it here: github.com/alexanderame...

#madewithunity #gamedev #unity3d
February 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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zoostrikers.com
Kong breakdown!
2,897 vertices 🐒
#Donkeykong #B3d #3dArt
3 renders of my donkey kong model stylized to look like the new MK9 DK design. On the left is the finished render, in the center is the handpainted normal maps, and on the right is the mesh/wireframe view.
January 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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zoostrikers.com
WIP new environment scene...You might recognize it! (its missing a building)
#WIP #GameArt #UE5
A 3d render in UE5. Several dirt paths converge and go towards the center of the image, bricks line part of the path. The grassy terrain,dotted with flowers and rocks, leads into a peak dropping off into the ocean which can be seen behind it. Near the peak is a pine tree. A bright blue sky with clouds.
February 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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tuataragames.com
You can use the depth buffer with a bump offset function to mask sprites by depth and conform them to the geometry. This is especially convenient for dynamic fake light, UI elements, character damage effects… #realtimeVFX #UnrealEngine #gamedev #vfx
February 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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studiofirlefanz.bsky.social
We have released a new #devlog! ☺️
This time it's about our Unity setup and how we use it for Golembert 🌱 Check it out and have a nice day! ☀️

#IndieGameDev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLq6...
Unity Setup for our Indie Game! || GOLEMBERT Devlog #11
YouTube video by Studio Firlefanz
www.youtube.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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davitmasia.bsky.social
Due interest, Tiling break methods By:
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #Gamedev #Indiedev

Alex Engelman
github.com/engelmanna/H...
Video: youtu.be/reDjo7QQsng

Mohsen Tabasi
github.com/proceduralit...
Video: youtu.be/ut0e8VneEJE

WitchDev
github.com/WitchDev/Ran...
Forum: forums.unrealengine.com/t/randomized...
January 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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January 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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beagamero.bsky.social
GUUUUYS! I FORGOT TO TEXTURE MY GIFTS!! #GameDev #b3d
Three gifts wrapped in Blender UV Checker pattern paper topped with metallic bows (two greens and one silver), on a festive holiday tablecloth.
December 24, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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corneliageppert.bsky.social
Each day after school the kids of the village can’t wait to join old Walter to get all the secret tips for fishing but even more to hear his stories of the wild sea out there! #art
December 18, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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halisavakis.com
My video tutorial on creating a simple volumetric fog shader in URP is finally out for everyone to watch!🎉

This should be a gentle introduction into volume raymarching and a good starting point for some really cool effects 🌫

Check it out:

👇👇👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P33...
☝☝☝

#gamedev #unity3d
Your first Volumetric Fog Shader | Unity URP
YouTube video by Technically Harry
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2024 at 4:57 PM
flogelz.bsky.social
... And in case you're wondering:

Yes, I'm still working on the #zelda project :')
December 14, 2024 at 4:36 PM
flogelz.bsky.social
So I always was a bit sad that nintendo toned down the clouds in Tears of the Kingdom compared to the first teasers⛅

They were so PRETTY- Always wondered how they made them and just had a shower thought yesterday and I'd say I got pretty close hehe!✨
December 13, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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studiofirlefanz.bsky.social
Are these... new characters and a new environment in our game? 🌊

Yes! Milly and Maynard are waiting for you on Golembert's tower to trade all sorts of goods 🐱

#screenshotsaturday #IndieGameDev #cozygames #indiegame
December 7, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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mattnava.bsky.social
Funny story: Journey had no automatic shadows. I painted them all by hand. The shadow texture was not hi-res. To get the iconic sunset columns to cast sharp shadows, I made sure that they aligned with the pixel grid of the texture. Here you can see the shadow map I painted.
The sunset tunnel moment from the game Journey, where the player slides from right to left past columns throwing shadows towards the camera. The bright glowing sun sets behind the distant mountain. The scene is tinted in glowing warm shades. This is a black and white texture I hand painted to map shadows into the downhill scene in the game Journey. Most games generate these textures automatically, but I did it by hand because we did not have the tools to do so during Journey's development. A close up of my hand painted shadow texture, showing that the shadows of the columns in the sunset tunnel were aligned with the pixels of the texture to achieve maximum sharpness in game, despite the resolution of the texture being very small for the amount of area it was covering.
November 23, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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mattnava.bsky.social
10th anniversary Journey thread, recreated:
I was the art director of thatgamecompany's Journey. It set the course of my career and my art. I'm forever thankful to the community of players and their incredible love for the game. This is a thread comparing early dev images and how things shipped.
The intro title shot from the PS3 game Journey. This is from the finished game. The title "Journey" is displayed above a distant mountain, with the player character seeing it from atop a sand dune. The intro title shot from a work in progress version of Journey. The title's font is different, the composition is asymmetrical, and the distant mountain is not as tall as the final version. My initial sketch for the title shot for the game Journey. A simple, small line drawing featuring the player character in the foreground and the mountain in the distance.
November 23, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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aliciacofalla.bsky.social
I designed this character for fun and practice 🌵
A cowboy-hat-wearing cactus was the inspiration 🤠

#characterdesign #art #digitalart #illustration #sketches
On the right, you can see a character design of a cowgirl made from cacti. Next to it are earlier sketches. On the left is an illustration containing the character.
November 24, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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tinyworlds.org
Some more progress on this water shader, added sparkly bits & shoreline 🌊

#gameart #unrealengine
October 23, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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joshalanb.bsky.social
check out my other posts, but this specific paint stroke version of shell rendering was inspired by this post from 2018:

aqu.hatenablog.com/entry/2018/0...
UE4：Shell Based Stroke Material - ゲームの花園
ピッグのアヌシー受賞のお祝いとして制作した映像のマテリアル表現をまとめました。 受賞発表の熱が冷める前にお祝いしたかったので、約1週間で映像を制作しています。まだまだ荒削りなアイデアですが、個人的には発展させると面白そうな、良い匂いのするテクニックだなと思っています。(水彩ポストプロセスとの合わせ技とかも面白そうです。) ブタくんの表現的な目標 お祝い動画は、下記を目標にしました。 Dice氏 の...
aqu.hatenablog.com
October 25, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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halisavakis.com
These could probably be better done as post-processing, the shells could be a bit overkill; I've done something like that in the past, this is using depth/normal/color difference and displacing the outline buffer before compositing
November 20, 2024 at 10:36 AM
flogelz.bsky.social
Wow- I didn't expect to reach 500 followers here so fast😭
Thanks for sticking around with me!
November 17, 2024 at 8:18 PM
flogelz.bsky.social
@arlostuff.bsky.social About palworld (not defending a side here) but people forget that Palworld is backed by Sony. So it's not so much "small against big company" anymore as Nintendo has their literal rival hiding in the shadows behind Pocketpair, who could definetly turn it into a huge franchise🥷
November 15, 2024 at 12:26 PM