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He/Him - Tech Artist @Okomotive (my posts are mine tho) Prev. Tech art @ Jumpship 🚫 Anti-AI/NFT 🚫 Gamedev, Shader and VFX Journeyman; making things pretty with code ✨ 🎨: cara.app/harryalisavakis 🔗: halisavakis.carrd.co 🌐 : halisavakis.com

Me in a suit next to my wife (Borat voice) in a beautiful dream-like lilac gown descending the stairs of the Athens city hall
Screenshot of a junky af web game with incredibly bright colors and awful gradients, showcasing a 2D side-view of a game with a zebra chained on a rocket.
Screenshot from a Unity AI demo showing a user-written prompt saying: Create a working game in Unity. It should be a word guess game. Two letters of the word should be displayed, the rest are hidden. There should be an entry field for the user to type in a letter of their choice. If the letter matches a hidden letter in the word, it appears in the word. If the letter is not present the player looses a life. The player has 3 lives. When they run out of lives it is game over. If the player wins by revealing all the hidden letters in the word, the player gets an extra life. A new random word is then chosen. It should look visually appealing, suitable for a desktop game.
Same scene as before, with HAZE and postprocessing.
Unity 3D scene showing a foggy scene set on a rural field. 3 Churches can be seen to the left, center and right of the camera, with the further one in the center being more brightly lit. There's a thick layer of fog covering the scene and an immeasurable amount of makeshift tombs can be seen covering the ground.
A generic 3D forest of birch trees, engulfed by fog, rendered inside Unity. Orange sun shafts can be seen coming from the top right, while the rest of the fog has a purple-ish tint. Trees in the distance are blurry from the multiple scattering of the fog.
Me in front of the Atlantic Games Conference banner
HAZE demo scene showcasing volumetric lights, with a stats window open showing it's running at 29FPS. This is before the fix.
The screenshots from that stupid "hire fans lol" tweet with Aloy from the Horizon franchise on the left side with "DLSS 5 OFF" written on the top left corner and the silly yassified version on the right with "DLSS 5 ON" written on top.
Unity scene showing 2 3D trees, a birch(?) tree on the left and a pine tree on the right. They have ambient occlusion baked in their vertices, making the dense areas on the trunk and branches darker.
Closeup screenshot of a 3D procedurally generated ivy with sun light scattered in the leaves
A screenshot from Unity editor showing a UI hierarchy of different tree elements (a trunk, branches and leaves)
Photo of my home workstation, featuring a petrol-colored wall and a wooden standing desk in the front with a big ultra wide screen on top. Various artworks are hanging on the walls. On the left side of the desk there's a display with various nerdy stuff. Above the desk there's a shelf with fake plants and a couple of artbooks from Sable and Control. On the right side of the desk there's a small piece of furniture with the desktop tower on top and an old-timey lamp in front of it.
Screenshot of a 3D tree, showing an end cap with concentric rings that resemble tree growth rings.
Reviews for HAZE on the asset store: Amazing volumetric fog: I got great quality fog now for my game that is very relying on atmosphere. My favorite part is how the fog reacts to the light sources. I assumed volumetric fog has to be approximated/blurred to make it run smoothly in realtime, but with this asset I can get fine details in the fog, even at lower quality settings. For example a lamp shining through a grid of thin metal bars throws shadows on fog where the bars are blocking the light. Also it's well optimized and has lots of options for controllability, great work overall! best at the moment I'm switching to it from buto, so far I'm happy. But unfortunately the transparent shader doesn't work in my case (even the one included as a demo). I have to render the fog without checkbox Render Before Transparents Rich and gorgeous fog This asset is exactly why I love realtime rendering. There is a technical mystique to it. It feels powered by clean code. Like the days when optimization was a noble quest. The result are incredibly atmospheric. I would never be able to achieve a fog this smooth and performant on my own. It lifts the visual quality a notch, giving the game a granular richness that feels expensive, like capturing photons on film. 1 of 1 user found this review helpful Absolutely Outstanding Asset! This is, without a doubt, the best volumetric fog and lighting solution I’ve worked with for URP! The quality is simply phenomenal visually stunning and incredibly efficient, even in demanding scenes. Performance hit is almost non-existent, which is impressive for such a high-quality effect. What truly sets this asset apart is the amazing support from the creator. Whenever I had an issue or a question, his response was fast, friendly, and super helpful. He went above and beyond to make sure everything worked perfectly in my project. Extremely Professional and High Quality A lot of effort went into quality and optimization. Really professional work.
Screenshot from Horizon Hunters Gathering showing a robot dinosaur or whatever they're called rendered with stylized lighting that includes a clear rim lighting that follows the 2D silhouette of the model, achieved by offsetting its depth from its screen position
The Drake & Josh meme where Josh normally says "I do not control the speed at which lobsters died" but the text is blacked out and modified to say "I control the per-vertex data"
A grid of 9 square images, featuring various works done in Unity, along with my face on the center square: 1. Colorful stylized raymarched clouds 2. A haunted Japanese shrine inside a foggy forest 3. A burning human-like effigy made of sticks, surrounded by a misty forest with dark-cloaked figures 4. A creepy, foggy alley with a human like figure wrapped in red strings illuminated at the end of it. 5. My face 6. A foggy Japanese alley surrounded by red vegetation, inspired by Silent Hill f 7. A foggy Nordic beach environment, inspired by Hellblade 2 8. Anime-style 3D ramen cause I always have to include those 9. Another foggy environment, with dead trees forming triangular arches and more dark-cloaked figures inside the fog.
Screenshot from Unity viewport showing stylized raymarched clouds with the sun shining through them
Garth Marenghi saying "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards"
Screenshot from Red Dead Redemption 2, showing a foggy forest with light shafts coming from the top right
A foggy forest scene with intense light shafts coming from the top right
Jimmy Fallon holding his ape NFT next to Paris Hilton, slightly before the fall of the NFT fad.
Billboard in Athens, Greece advertising a company called "House Dating"
Screenshot from Unity's viewport showing 3 box-shaped volumes of fog, each with a different color gradient mapped across its long axis. The left volume starts cyan and gradually fades to light blue and then orange, with a gap near the start where the density is dissolved. The middle volume has solid density uses a colorful gradient going from red to blue to a mint color. The right volume starts with its density dissolved at a deep orange color and fades to a white color with full density.
3D scene from Unity showing a set of old stone stairs going up in a forest. In each side of the stairs, old stone Japanese lanterns can be seen emitting an eerie reddish glow. A couple of set of stairs up there's a Torii gate that's covered entirely by paper talismans (Ofuda) indicating that there's something really evil past it.