How To Create Stylized 3D Smoke Pillar VFX

VFX Therapy, whose MasterVFX Shader for Unity we earlier shared, continues to support artists with practical tutorials focused on improving visual effects, like this guide by Devlyn JD on creating stylized smoke.

We have plenty of VFX tutorials and breakdowns on 80 Level. For example, you can check out Tuatara's tips we frequently share, like faking lighting on particles, a breakdown of a raindrop shader, ways to add variation to panning textures, creative distortion effects, and chromatic aberration.

Chih-Yu Hsieh, known online as geodraws, also has excellent tutorials, particularly on how math can improve your VFX work:

Jinyi Shao, also known as DoubleCats, creates fantastic 2D-style VFX and shares helpful advice:

If you're looking to purchase some smoke VFX, Hun Young Ha has created a cool stylized smoke pack featuring 14 unique sprite animations, available now for both Unity and Unreal Engine:

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