mae ✨
@bluebendypencil.bsky.social
she/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | tech/vfx artist particle princess ✨ https://www.bluebendypencil.com/
After many years of NDA.... I'm proud to announce I FINALLY HAVE A PUBLIC PORTFOLIO!! I'm still looking for work, so please check it out, share, throw it at your studio leadership etc. Thanks for the support ❤️ nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com
Natalie Spitzel
nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com
it's #vfxfriday!! here's my latest wip ^-^ some barrels might have been harmed in the making of this effect O-O #rtvfx #realtimevfx #vfx #ue5 #niagara #houdini
🧵 breakdown thread of the Halo energy shield vfx! (there's a couple approaches you could take for this, and a lot of optimisations possible for each part, so take this more as a general 'approach' than a specific step-by-step!) 1/5
New free Houdini tutorial series! Learn to build a playful, adaptive Wooden Bridge Tool. This series teaches newcomers how to chain together instancing systems to create complex, procedural structures. Link: www.sidefx.com/tutorials/pr... #houdini #procedural #gamedev #techart #tools #unreal
afflicted by the curse™ right now (obsessed with a d&d character i dont get to play for 3 months)
🏡⚽ Footsy is now live on #SteamNextFest! A chaotic party game where two kids turn their grandparents’ house into a soccer battlefield Play couch co-op or online with Steam Remote Play!✨ Try the demo now! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3028560/ #indiegame #indiedev #NextFest
happy #vfxfriday!! here's a sword slash effect i finished recently, inspired by nightblood from warbreaker & stormlight fame xD did some neat stuff to make it work i think, wrote about it on my webbed site ^-^ www.bluebendypencil.com/my-work/dark-sword-slash-vfx #realtimevfx #rtvfx #ue5 #niagara
happy #vfxfriday!! here's a sword slash effect i finished recently, inspired by nightblood from warbreaker & stormlight fame xD did some neat stuff to make it work i think, wrote about it on my webbed site ^-^ www.bluebendypencil.com/my-work/dark-sword-slash-vfx #realtimevfx #rtvfx #ue5 #niagara
Its #VFXFriday! I've been experimenting more with weapon based effects. This time with a mace. #VFX #Realtimevfx #UE5
workin on some slash fx as a break from a bigger project 💜 #rtvfx #realtimevfx #vfxfriday #ue5 #niagara
New personal VFX | Eye Soup Made with Houdini and Unreal www.artstation.com/artwork/0lrk3K #realtimeVFX #gamedev #unrealengine #VFX
Rift Riff is OUT NOW!! Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/... Buy it Try it Review it Repost the heck outa’ this!!1! … and here's a feature trailer explaining what I think is noteworthy about our tower defense game! youtu.be/ePCOuvXU-t0
Rift Riff - Feature Trailer
YouTube video by Adriaan de Jongh
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We’re feeling particularly brave today and we’ve mustered the courage to share another piece of information with you all: Our launch date! Truly, this is sacred knowledge, but we trust you with it. The Crescent County Kickstarter campaign will officially launch on: TUESDAY 20TH MAY 2025!
⚡ CRESCENT COUNTY IS DOING A KICKSTARTER!! ⚡ 💫 A painterly, witch-tech island to explore 🎁 Make deliveries by day, street race by night 😘 Drama! Motorbrooms! Kissing!!! ⌚ Launching in MAY 👇 SUPPORT INDIE GAMES! FOLLOW OUR KICKSTARTER!! 👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann... #gamedev #indiedev
happy #vfxfriday!!! beam attack!! ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜 #wip #realtimevfx #rtvfx #vfx #ue5
Happy #vfxfriday ! I haven't posted one in a while but I've recently had more time to pick up personal project work. Here's some shader work I did for a small indie project I'm working on, really enjoyed making the TV static effect especially! #vfx #gamedev #indiedev
happy #vfxfriday!!! beam attack!! ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜 #wip #realtimevfx #rtvfx #vfx #ue5
Years ago we pitched a "toxic-yuri ace-attorney-like about a psychopathic gambling lawyer" and a bunch of guys in top hats laughed us out of their building😢😢😢 Today, of the Devil is rated Overwhelmingly Positive with over 750 user reviews on Steam😏 Have we proved them wrong?🤔
🔥 Cursed Energy VFX - Jujutsu Kaisen Fanart 💧 #rtvfx #vfx #gameart #unrealengine
hey so uh one of the main Nintendo Switch 2 Direct streams completely ate our trailer due to I guess technical difficulties?? so if you guys could share this it would mean a lot 😅
STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions@starseekergame.systemera.net · last yr.Introducing STARSEEKER, a brand new game from the developers of ASTRONEER. STARSEEKER is all about the joy of discovery and the camaraderie that emerges from an evolving, cooperative experience. We hope you'll enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it... sometime in 2026.
all my love to my fellow trans peeps this #TransDayofVisibility!! eternally grateful to every visibly trans person for inspiring me to be myself and find joy in that ^-^
all my love to my fellow trans peeps this #TransDayofVisibility!! eternally grateful to every visibly trans person for inspiring me to be myself and find joy in that ^-^
I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
For-Profit (Creative) Software
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really vibin w my outfit today so i guess this is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike ^-^ i'm mae, a tech/vfx artist currently looking for her next adventure!! outside of work, most of the time my mind is haunted by game ideas i'll never make & lesbians who are doomed by the narrative
