Slingshot | VFX Breakdown

What?

  • Slingshot needed high quality VFX

  • Our focus was on:

    • Gameplay VFX

  • Special considerations:

    • High quality in-game VFX

    • Custom build of Unreal Engine

    • Gameplay VFX must be optimized for stereoscopic rendering

    • Estimated development time 12 weeks

Why?

  • Provide Slingshot with AAA quality VFX that would represent the Marvel’s Spider Man IP to standards expected of Disney

  • Provide visual feedback and aesthetically pleasing VFX to the audience attending Disney parks

How?

  • Entire VFX team (GoDemics)Independent development team comprised of industry veterans from AAA games; mostly lead and senior artists with games and film experience (specialize in Unreal Engine)

    • Roster (for Slingshot)

      • VFX artists x5

      • Tech artists x2

    • Technology

      • We used a combination of both Cascade and Niagara for execution of effects with Unreal Engine

      • Blueprint used for implementation of effects

      • Niagara is still very early in its life, so we used the more experienced Cascade system to supplement and fill holes where Niagara failed to achieve production needs

 
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Gameplay VFX

We were tasked with creating stylized gameplay VFX consisting of:

  • Impact effects

  • Explosions 

  • Destructibles and general destruction

  • Energy bursts

  • Fluids and goo

  • Lasers 

  • Magic spells

  • Any and all effects to make actions and gameplay fun for the player!...

 
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VFXBrandon Phamslingshot