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SIGGRAPH HIVE 2023 - Urban Bradesko - Art Directing Explosions

VFX 
July 16, 2024
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Urban Bradesko, also known as "The Explosions Guy," demonstrates various methods of setting up emitters for explosions and developing a straightforward scatter shader for enhanced control during rendering with Karma.

These workflows empower users with art-directable control over pyrotechnics, encompassing explosion art direction, shaders, shapes, and principles.

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‍Urban Bradesko is a multidisciplinary artist mostly known for his Explosions. He has worked on Destiny 2 cinematics, Gears of War 5, Love Death and Robots, Deathloop cinematics and many more. Currently, he is founder at DoubleJump Academy

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Head of CG & Simulation MPC Adelaide

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Griffin Animation Studios

"William goes in depth into his workflow and approach he takes to creating large scale environments, u get to understand his thinking behind the why he does things not just the how. There is some comp tricks taught along the way in nuke as well that have been helpful to apply to my own projects to elevate them just that bit more even if environments Isn't my main focus. Of course as well the huge community of DoubleJump is a bonus always ready to help when u need it with a bunch of friendly folks."

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Fx Artist/TD - Enrolled in: Epic Environments for Movies

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"Learning VFX can be a daunting task, especially when you’re not sure what sources and practices you can rely on and follow. Urban is a master of his craft and delivers high-end, quality content that you can trust to keep you on track in your professional development. I have greatly benefitted and grown as an artist from his invaluable industry knowledge, that often times can’t be found anywhere else. If you want to learn how to produce industry quality effects at the highest level you won’t want to miss anything from of Urban Bradesko."

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Senior VFX Artist at Atomic Arcade

"Having worked with Urban for many years. I can strongly recommend engaging with DoubleJump. This team covers a wide range of skill-sets combined with their wide array of contacts in the Visual Effects Industry. They are striving to create a hub for beginners to experts alike. Equally strengthening various Studios toolsets and team members. In DoubleJump I entrust!"

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CG Supervisor at Axis Studios

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