10 Skills You Might Need to Become a VFX Artist!

💥I decided to compile the 10 most important skills that make up a great VFX Artist, but don't feel overwhelmed by them!💥 They are mostly from my personal experience/journey and from what I see lacking in some of my students. Take this with a grain of salt, as I know there are many outstanding VFX Artist out there who don’t even need some of the skills mentioned on this list.

I didn't even realize how much I loved doing VFX until my 3rd year in art school. Thank you for the insight!

I'm an old software engineer in 3d and IA. My skill is mostly developing engines for industry on PC and embedded systems from scratch often. When I see what VFX artists can do with an engine, I always think : "God! They are good". Now I understand why 😂. All the skills we have, you need to have to. Thx for the video

Cool video, I am working as a 3D artist and personally I would say the only thing you need is the ability to learn and use a wide range of creative software which will evolve as time goes on. Do not just learn one set of software but instead learn approaches to problems that you can apply to any new software.

As a technical / vfx artists I agree you kind of just have to learn.. Everything.. because any vfx can be approached from multiple directions and the way to make them will widely vary based on one's personal skillset as will the specific results.

Such a solid list. Recently came across your channel and am really enjoying the content. Well done!

Thanks for uploading this video! I got inspired and I'll try my best to follow and understand those steps.

i think i know most of the things on the list thanks to being a motion graphic designer but the aproach i've been using varys alot from a real time vfx artist practicing these skills may help me become a game vfx artist one day

Small tip specifically for texture creation : AI can do this wonderfully. There are some stable diffusion models that specialize in texture creation and do great jobs, either for tiles in your game world, or textures to use in vfx.

please tell me how to fix it so that you can repeat the effects after you? The Visual Effect Graph is supported in the High Definition Render Pipeline (HARP) and the Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Please assign your chosen Render Pipeline Asset in the Graphics Settings to use it.

Nice video, I want to create vfx character skills that attacks an enemy or summons a beast to breath fire etc how can I create this? what software etc? assets? Thanks.

very nice 🙂

I start with blender but more interested to do animation in unity. Becoz of realtime technology. Your tips is good to reflect what I have done. I realise I’m still missing some key factor to be a good vfx artist. Thank you for heads up.

The thing I struggle most with it is coding. Not that I don't have a long way in several other areas since I'm trying to jump from illustration to VFX. But coding gets into all the wrong sides of my neurodivergency

Thanks so much for the video! That list is great to know for the newbies like me. I am a graphic designer, 2 years ago I started to change my path to videogames, and I knew a little bit of everything rigth now, but masters no one 😢, my question is, what would be your advice to emphasize in order to get a job as a vfx or technical artist? Thanks again for the videos for people like me that want so much to be a vfx artist but doesn't have the money to pay for a school ❤️ you are amazing!!

Slowly trying to learn how to VFX as my friend keeps suggesting it to me. Good I know about half of those, just annoying the ones I don't know are the far more artistic ones

Vfx always interested me but I kinda never specialized in it. Now I finally started learning it. I'm thinking about specializing in it and go for becoming a VFX artist. Before that I was thinking about specializing in Concept Art or 3d modeling/sculpting and so for the past 2 years I practiced digital art and modelling (which is great since I need them for VFX), but I kinda tend more towards VFX. Might just be because it's new for me now but who knows... will definitely focus on that for the next time and see how I like it 😄. Btw a question about VFX in Unity: currently I'm just working with the standard particle system and not with the VFX Graph. Should I rather go for the graph, because maybe it's more common to use that nowadays or? The only differences I know is that the vfx graph can render more particles because it's GPU based and it also has more features to create more interesting particle effects compared to the normal particle system. But the particle system can use collissions which the graph can't do. So I'm not sure which one I should focus more on eventhough I'll learn both? Cheers!

Hi! I would like to ask you guys about how important the drawing (not digitally) really is? I'm currently a software engineer and my drawing skills are missing rs.

Hello Gabriel awesome video like always. I want to buy your vfx course for unity game development but confused as which course to buy first as I'm beginner. Please help. 😅🙌🏻

Hi Gabriel, With the arrival of AI, should we really care about learning 3D modelling, as AI has the potential to create any kind of art?