Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists

Technical-Artist @ Looking for work | He/Him | Cursed with Jester's Blood

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

I am also on the site with a working block feature

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

@SophieRossetti What was your favourite part?

[Frosty Games 🍦 @FrostyGamesFest]

Calling all ANZ game devs! 📣 Reminder: Our Developer EOI form is still open 🎮🍦🧊

If you have a demo, teaser, wishlist campaign, release date, or ANYTHING planned for around June 2025, please fill in the form, we'd love to chat!

[Andrew Mendlik @andrew_mendlik]

This great little Tassie-made game just launched into early access (and I did a little bit of tech art on it). Check it out!

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

Compression has really taken something from this one

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

I smashed out this fun fire VFX prototype today. It was a fun, little Tech-art exercise.

It's all 2D and uses a vertex offset in the shader to give it the illusion of depth when rotating around the sphere.

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

There is a great thread about the technique here by @Ed_dV. While I used a slightly different technique to push the vertices towards the camera. This thread perfectly breaks down how and why to do it

https://t.co/oTHdhIDVV2

[Edward del Villar @Ed_dV]

Camera Facing Billboard Toon Fire tip: Push the quad vertices forward a bit towards the camera, so that when you're rotating around it, it overlaps the geometry more and gives a sense of volume. Breath of the Wild does it, you should do it too.

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

@PeterReidJones @LawmageA @VGMAcademy Absolutely no sorry necessary

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

@callioperyder It needs to be either the same handle or the same profile pic. Folks who have changed both are impossible to track

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

@merryh It's worth trying the Mooii stores or kinokuniya?

[Granite Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @GraniteDhuine]

The new Twitter block function.

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

There is something funny about how the "read blog" button in the email that @unity sent out, (announcing unity 6 is here) gives a 404 error

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

It's Mimir's first birthday

[Bluesky @bluesky]

welcome, new bluesky users 🫡

https://t.co/x6v5YW0WFT

[its_effin_dan/3D Artist//Voice Actor @Its_Effin_Dan]

wild that we go through a vetting process of upwards of 4+ interviews, portfolio reviews, art tests, years learning the proprietary engines/tools not to mention the tribal knowledge development- only to be cut for a cynical business practice made to make the board feel good

[Sarah Elliott @Sassifrasi]

After a small delay (thanks to a (mostly) socials free MIGW which I do recommend) here is the link to my working files for anyone who missed them. The aim is to show just how simple some of my example setups were, and to make rigging seem a lot more achievable :D

[Layne Ngatai-Stokes | Technical Artists @LayneStokes]

@benhmusic @APRAAMCOS @free_play We haven't even considered if the g is soft like gif vs jif