I am absolutely hypnotised by the balls of Blizzard's VFX artists

Orb of Revelation, cropped full art

I absolutely love seeing gaming VFX artists show off their skills. They're the folk from the art team who get to add all the sexy pizazz to a game's key animations and effects, whether that be casting a spell, popping an ult, or the myriad ways that objects can be exploded in a fizzing cascade of particle effects. So I'm a sucker for the showreel embedded below, which collects the response of Blizzard's many artists to an internal challenge set as part of the company's annual VFX summit.

Last year when planning our annual @Blizzard_Ent VFX Summit we decided to try something new.We invited all of our artists to "Take the ball and run with it" in our very first internal VFX Challenge.I'm honored to present the final results, Enjoy! #vfx #gamedev pic.twitter.com/g6d4JPtEv7May 3, 2023