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Nick Seavert, Founder & CEO of JangaFX Software joined 80 Level Podcast. Explore the art and science of visual effects in game development and learn how Nick turned his love for games into building software aimed at empowering game artists and making VFX easier. Stay tuned for an inside look at JangaFX's future plans, where they're venturing into real-time terrain and environment generation, promising to revolutionize game development.

Janga VFX website: https://jangafx.com/

Janga VFX tutorials on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jangafx/videos  

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Our BRAND NEW instructor, Luis Carrasco joins us and shares why fixing your design skills is the key to producing better concepts and how it took time for Luis to realize this. So, enjoy this episode where we dive into this topic and how Luis will be teaching his proven method in his Learn Squared course, which you can sign up for below.

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The visuals and feel of a video game are a lot more complex than even most artists think. It is imperative that your team is on the same page when it comes to communicating with the player through the game’s visuals, especially during long and complex game development cycles.

This is why you should make the art direction clear from the start, then be ready when people don’t understand or try different things. Having a clear yet evolving vision allows for teams to create better games, learn quickly, and maximize each member’s individual strengths. Your team won’t get it perfect the first time, and that’s ok. They may surprise you!

Tomáš Jech, co-founder of independent studio Tandemi and TEDx speaker, joins us in today’s episode to share his experiences in art direction, some of the tools he’s discovered over the years, and where he sees opportunities to lead better in making art for games.

After years of creating in the gaming world, Tomáš is still learning about the importance of limitations, the usefulness of having a visual hierarchy, and why you need to understand what ignites the spark of passion within your team—and tap into it!

Tune in for pragmatic advice on how to leverage your team’s individual talents and experiences to make a game that not only looks good, but plays well too.

Topics discussed in this episode:

- The importance of a clear art strategy

- Getting on the same page

- Understanding your team makes for better games

- Creativity is an ocean of opportunity

- The importance of limitations

- The idea repository

- The soup is greater than the sum of its parts

- Having clear paths of authority

- Why a visual hierarchy matters

- Protecting your time

- Maximize your team’s individual strengths

- Tomáš’s latest creative venture: BEGONE BEAST

Check out Tandemi’s upcoming project, BEGONE BEAST at begonebeast.com and sign up for their newsletter to help develop the game!

For more tips on how to staff your dev team, email us at info@valarinconsulting.com to set up a free 90 minute call!

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Joe Garth is our instructor for Unreal Environments (which you can get right now!) and is a genius when it Unreal Engine and has created jaw-dropping cinematics with this tool. In this episode discover how Joe went from a teenager creating fan art to developing tools for Unreal Engine, THAT Quixel Rebirth short and his Learn Squared course! 

Learn from Joe right now! 
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In this episode, learn how Phi Dinh, director of PhiGames and creator of Recompile – an atmospheric, Metroidvania-inspired hacking adventure game set inside a computer – leveraged Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline to produce realistically rendered and beautifully lit otherworldly environments and assets.