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There are hundreds of good FX artists that's why. It's very unlikely that everyone got so much visibility. I agree that this one is very good thought and could have more views, but I am counting more than 100k today and just this it's pretty impressive for an artist working in the industry

10k sorry

Sorry, not at the moment.

It depends on which area you would like to specialise in, I started off small, working on a personal project per month. Each personal project I tried to push my boundries a bit more and learn a new technique or piece of software. Lots of googling, youtube videos and forums. I would really recommend studying the fundamentals of what makes an image look good. Check out books like "Colour and light" by James Gurney or "Framed ink" by Marcos Mateu-Mestre. Focus on specific areas of your skillset and slowly expand and try parts of the entire pipeline! Its really useful to know what people need from you and what you need from other departments. I would recommend a lot of different tutorials like ones on learn squared or artstation. Theres also a lot of great content on youtube such as Feng Zhus Design Cinema. I also have released a tutorial on pixelfront which gives an overall look of creating a shot from concept to final composite. Ive been teaching myself since around 2008 and then went to university for a vfx and animation degree in 2012. The most important thing is patience, It can take a long time to figure out how it all works but it definitely helps to break things down to smaller projects and build up your skillsets.

No. Clarisse has stopped support, but the principals of it can be used in various other softwares. I continue to use houdini as my primary 3D package, along with maya and zbrush.

@@JackStevensvfx okay~thanks for your anwser!It 's pity to recieve that clarisse has been stooped.

I think it's a good idea to make different shaders for different distances/scales of ice. For the large pieces, medium small and tiny pieces, then you can balance the refraction, transmission and SSS independently and try and bring out the real cobalt blue in some of the cracks. These shaders also use the p world to procedurally shade things like anything below the waterline will have a difference in albedo and a different specular and it allows you to add variation across a large distance to keep things from looking tiled. Because there is some floating ice and shelving ice (fx destruction) moving through the worldspace I also had to build a similar shader that used the p ref utility instead of p world so textures won't slide off when it moves around. I've seen some amazing results with having transmission in the shader and then creating a volume shader for everything inside so it's more physically correct, but complexity and render times can be quite an issue.

@@JackStevensvfx absolute gold, thankyou so much for details! Will definitely be referring back to this 🙏

Hey, there are a few different render engines used throughout my reel, Mostly Arnold, Redshift and Clarisse's Renderer. Arnold is my preferred choice though.

@@JackStevensvfx what apps do you use for modeling, texturing, rendering?

@@bbrother92 Hey, I use Zbrush, Houdini, Gaea for most terrain based modelling and maya for other types of modelling. Most Terrain Texturing I would try and do procedurally with triplanar setups and projections, But I really like Mari and substance for hero texturing.

@@JackStevensvfx Super!

@@JackStevensvfx Is Houdini meant to be modeled? I thought it is meant to stimulate

hahaha The algo did well, Everyone should see the secrets of Houdini!

Hey, Yeah you for sure can get similar results using other software, you dont need to follow things along 100% Its more about the general workflow and how you can achieve a final image using different tools. I dont use blender personally but it has a lot of great tools that im sure would be useful for terrain generation!

@@JackStevensvfx thanks for this fast answer !! Cool I'll definitely take it next month. A last question, what is the importance of Houdini in this workflow ?

@@PoulpyLordofoctopus Houdini is pretty important as I build the entire scene, setting up scattering systems, light, build shaders and render it all within Houdini. So it would be a lot of work to transfer that knowledge to another software but the same principles can be used.

@@JackStevensvfx perfect ! Did you render with mantra ?

@@PoulpyLordofoctopus This was rendered with Arnold in Houdini if I remember correctly

Thanks! Ill keep that in mind when I upload more in the future! :)

Thanks for that! Ill try and keep new stuff coming soon!

Glad to hear that! Ill keep trying to upload timelapses and create longer tutorials at some point!

Lots and lots of practice!

Hey man, thanks! It's a custom brush but you can pretty much recreate it using a trim dynamic brush, with a square alpha and tweaking a couple settings to get a feeling you like.

@@JackStevensvfx Thanks for the reply! I'm gonna try to create one then. Cheers!

It's very fun to test out, has some very nice erosion tools!