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Stephen Stone
@stephenstone.bsky.social
Lead Artist @Sparkypants

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One of the main things you do in Mind Over Magic is build your school. I prototyped the look and built out all of the FX and shader for our construction fx. Higher res videos below!

www.artstation.com/artwork/3EZa3B

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February 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
What's a magic school without magical stations to learn and cast magic at! Here are some VFX/Shaders I worked on for our teaching stations. Everything here was animated via shader.

Check out more here!

www.artstation.com/artwork/AZ6bWe

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February 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Student Summoning Ritual:
January 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Mana Crystal Cleansing Ritual:
January 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
More VFX work from Mind Over Magic. These were some of the magic rituals from the game. Particularly happy with how the shader on the mana crystal turned out.

Hiring Ritual:

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January 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
More Shaders! Nothing crazy with this one, but it turned out cool. It uses the character bounds to mask the bottom, and a couple of screen space textures on top. We recently added the option to customize the color of their ghost. Here is our ghost shader:

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January 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Here is the same shader with our Greenhouse Material, but toggled to only use 3 horizontal slices:
January 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Here is that shader working on one of our materials for the Dragon Aerie:
January 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Showing off some of the shader work I did on Mind Over Magic. Here is a 9 slice shader I built for our game using world coordinates. The basic idea was taking the world coordinates of each wall and constructing UVs based on them. I then used those UVs and remapped them coordinates on a texture.
January 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Here is our Air Ultimate Spell

#VFX #Stylized #MindOverMagic #Indie #PortfolioDay
January 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
January 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Happy #PortfolioDay Everyone!

I am still putting together all of my work from the latest project I have been working on Mind Over Magic, but I still wanted to share some of the FX work I have been doing on the project.

Here is our Dark Ultimate Spell

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January 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Animated version
January 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Got this guy all rigged up and added some dynamics to it in Unity. Still going to add some bones to give some control over some of the cloth areas like the pants and sleeves.
December 15, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Made the staff and a hacky little fur shader. Also updated the shader so I can set the shadow color based on a texture in order to get closer to the look of the concept.
November 23, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Timelapse:
October 26, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Video turn around:
October 26, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Video Turn Around
October 26, 2024 at 8:09 PM