Ep 50 - Unleash Your Inner Beast

Jesse Henning is a Senior VFX Artist working at Atomic Arcade with a passion for crafting, creating, animating and blowing things up in a virtual world. He has worked on game titles like Conan Exiles, Age of Sorcery, and Destroy All Humans with experience in the creation of cinematic VFX. As both a freelancer and full-time employee, Jesse has many perspectives to share on the inner workings of VFX in game development.

Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/jessehenning

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Three pieces of advice Jesse got early on in his career that helped shape him as an artist.
i. “Be a Factory not a Warehouse” (Alex Buono - DP for SNL)

ii. Even if a shot is cinematic gold, beautiful, exquisite and impactful, if it doesn’t
help advance the story, then you have to kill it off. In the same way for gameplay,
if your VFX are beautiful, mesmerizing and cool, if they don’t satisfy or
communicate the right moment for gameplay then kill it off or rework it.

iii. “Craft is the sum total of means used to draw the audience into deep
involvement, to hold that involvement, and ultimately to reward it with a
moving and meaningful experience. Without craft, the best a writer can do is
snatch the first idea off the top of his head, then sits helpless in front of his own
work, unable to answer the dreaded question: is it good?” - Robert Mckee
(Story)
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