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In brief: Simon Trümpler, a VFX artist at Wild Sheep Studio, released project files for his stylised Whispy Boom explosion.
Effect design: The name refers to wispy smoke, with thin trails similar to cigarette smoke. Trümpler created the effect while taking an introductory Unreal Engine course. He hand-painted the principal textures in Krita and used environment textures supplied with the course. A greyscale texture combined with a normal map formed a mask, which was then coloured in the shader.
Availability: The project files were offered free through Gumroad. Trümpler also documented effects work on his blog. Test material blending, overdraw and platform performance before production use.
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