Ian Maclure

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🎇 Lead VFX Artist @ Beffio ☁️ Recently shipped LOST SKIES ☁️ ☄️ Indie developing, on and off. Mostly off right now.

Andrew, James, and myself standing on the Brighton pier at Develop Conference 2026.
Sunset from Brighton Pier
A long list of all the games releasing in september and october. I will probably only have time for one or two of these, desipite being interested in playing... Orbitals, Wolverine, Dawn of War IV, Control Resonant, Townfall, Onimusha, Ace Combat 8, Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen, Final Fantasy Resonance, and No Rest for the Wicked 1.0. If I really face reality? I'm going to bounce off Ace Combat halfway through, and then burn through Final Fantasy Resonance in 2.5 weeks.
Small UX updates I suggested showing up in the illugen changelogs make me so happy to use this tool!
A disco ball attached to a climbing anchor with a quickdraw.
Another photo on the timeline of an alligator laid on an inflatable alligator.
an unnhealthy amount of cinnamon roll
A blueprint function called "Set Active" with the inputs "GameObject" and "SetActive" (bool)
Ben Starr Blinded by the Light meme
The amount of blurry effects in this trailer actually shows that their VFX shader pipeline is respecting motion vectors in a really good way, and that TAA artifacts will be minimal. The technical team are doing good work, but that doesn't mean I like the resulting aesthetic.
Plywood shelving made to fit 2x2 stacking "Really Useful" 9l boxes. I routed grooves, and just glued it up. The back board is 5ml ply, and the top section is space for drawers to be put in.
Unraid screenshot of 24 TB split across the most raggity ass old drives.
an ancient videogamer still of Chris Bratt looking just pleased as punch with himself. Good one Chris
View of the loch this morning
The Holy See of Ishguard, FFXIV Heavensward.
Beating beasfly with exploding poison pouches
Moorwing goes pop
big chef fly explodes
A grinning denzel washington walks away from two bodies on the ground while his partner, makes a "what the fuck" arm gesture behind him.
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
Quote: I was in an elevator on campus when an Ethics class was just getting out, and 8 kids who looked like they all belonged on a golf course piled in. The doors closed, and the douchest looking bro among them says: "I don't get why we have to take Ethics. Business is the OPPOSITE of Ethics!" All of the people who had just entered that elevator sighed with relief and praised him. Yes, of course, they said. He's so right. That was 10 years ago, but I still feel like I'm trapped in that elevator.
3000 pokemon tcg pocket cards
the smashed up interior of a tiny car, drawn in absurd detail.
camera angle makes it look like a guy has big head, the odd sight of which is at juxtoposition with the serious discussion taking place, and focuses the viewer on the unseen inner turmoil of the characters thoughts. Patlabour 2.
log 1: "Fell off just before the lay back. Should have got the on sight, but ah well" log 2: "Watched Adam fall for no reason."
Emotional Heavyweights game playlist: Answers, FFXIV. Zanarkand, FFX. Hollow, FFVII Remake. Phantom Liberty theme. Footfalls, FFXIV Endwalker. Bury the Light, DMC 5. I really Want to Stay at Your House, Cyberpunk. Aeriths Theme, FFVII. Simple and Clean Orchestral, Kingdom Hearts. A Place to Call Home - Melodies of Life, FFIX. Close in the Distance, FFXIV.
Very smooth gradients and blurs from a "glow" and "Directional Blur" node in Illugen
VFX from Lost Skies, where I was the sole VFX Artist on the project!
"I’ve never welded a day in my life but I did help weld the fabric of reality together at the beginning of time, really great work man" "I was the senior Architect AND welder on the Death Star project under the Galactic Empire. and I can say, this is some fine Imperial Approved welding." "I welded the first welder together and I can say that is a surprising amount of skill." ...and so forth
Poker hands on a helper card
One very interesting thing I had found, when I came into an office as an outside objective evaluator and you had left me to do my job, was that approximately 2 nanoseconds later your employees were already telling me everything that was wrong about you, your company, and your development methodologies. It was not a matter of having a trusting face, or even promising them to make things better, it was about your employees who cared about the growth of the company, and more importantly about their own growth within a company despite feeling unheard and ignored. I just happened to be a new face that wouldn’t judge them for what they would say, and even if I did, often they are so tired of the problem being present that they would even just stop caring about any potential consequences of speaking out against their employer.
Blown out plaster exposing brickwork
Crouching in front of a large section of blown out plaster wearing a 3M mask
"Battle Sim" Spreadsheet pitting stat values of two enemies at their expected level against each other
The top left corner of the HUD from "God Save Birmingham", showing: 'Very Hungry', 'Thirsty', 'Very Exhausted'.
A spreadsheet table of generated enemy stats next to those stats graphed as a curve.
Git log: "Working on battle system, project is not launching"
"Branch on input connection" node, allowing subgraphs to modify functionality depending on what inputs have been implemented.