GDC 2025 Session Viewer
Visual Effects Summit: Approaching Embergen!
Dan Paynter (VFX Artist, Beyond-FX)
Location: Room 2016, West Hall
Date: Monday, March 17
Time: 3:50 pm - 4:20 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass - Get your pass now!
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: All
Embergen is approachable, powerful, and great for beginners and advanced artists alike! In this lecture, Dan will cover the basics of diving into Embergen and learning navigation, what the basic nodes do, and how to create your own smoke flipbooks with confidence! It seems that there aren't a lot of quick and straightforward talks about how to work with Embergen and Dan's here to help you with that. He will be covering how to create two different types of flipbooks, a single play flipbook example for a dust kick up or impact effect, and tips and tricks on how to create a seamless looping smoke poof. Come learn how to approach Embergen with these examples and the knowledge of how to continue branching out from what you have learned to create excellent VFX!
Takeaway
Attendees will be learning the basics of Embergen through how to create their own smoke flipbook textures. After this presentation they will have the knowledge to recreate the examples shown as well as create their own looping and single play flipbook textures!
Intended Audience
This presentation is intended for anyone that has a basic knowledge of VFX and flipbook textures, and wants to learn more about Embergen.
