VFX Services – iXie Gaming

Explosions That Wow. Frame Rates That Don't Weep.

VFX is the easiest place to make a game look incredible — and the easiest place to silently destroy its performance. We've shipped effects across PC, console, and mobile that do both jobs: impress the player and stay within budget.

VFX That Serves The Game. Not Just The Trailer.

Every effect we build is authored with overdraw limits, particle budgets, and platform constraints in mind — in Houdini and After Effects, validated in Unreal and Unity. Because an effect that looks stunning in isolation but costs you 10ms per frame isn’t an asset. It’s a liability.

What We Actually Do.

Pick one service. Pick all four. Either way, you’re shipping a better game — on time.

Explosions & Destruction

Fire, debris, structural collapses — authored to impress without nuking your draw call budget. Real-time validated in Unreal and Unity before handoff. Houdini · After Effects · Unreal Engine · Unity

Particle Systems

Water, magic, energy, weather — simulated with strict performance awareness. No overdraw. No visual noise. No effects that accidentally obscure gameplay. Houdini · After Effects

Character Effects

Abilities, powers, hit reactions — effects that reinforce gameplay feedback, not distract from it. Timed to animation states and validated against in-game transitions. Houdini · After Effects · Spine

Lighting & Rendering

Dynamic real-time lighting, cinematic setups, ambient atmosphere — all of it. Mood that enhances the world without confusing the player about what matters. Unreal Engine · Unity

Custom Shader Development

Reflective surfaces, glowing objects, stylised materials — shaders built to match your art direction and behave consistently across hardware tiers. Substance Designer · Unreal Engine · Unity

Environment & Atmospheric Effects

Rain, snow, fog, day-night cycles — systems that enrich storytelling without compounding your performance headaches. Houdini · Unreal Engine · Unity

AI Where It Earns It. Artists Where It Counts.

We use Stable Diffusion — custom fine-tuned to your visual style — to accelerate concept exploration and reference generation for complex effect systems. Houdini handles the simulation heavy lifting. Our artists and technical directors own every output before it touches your engine. Faster iteration. No shortcuts on quality. No effects shipped blind.

Four Reasons Studios Come Back.

Performance is non-negotiable

Every effect is profiled for overdraw, particle count, and frame time — on the platforms your players actually use.

Validated before it leaves our hands

Engine-side testing in Unreal and Unity, across hardware tiers, before handoff. No surprises post-integration.

Effects that serve gameplay, not fight it

We understand what feedback needs to land in 200ms and what atmospheric detail needs to stay invisible. That's not a technical skill. It's a game design instinct.

Scales with your production

A handful of signature effects or a full atmospheric system for a live game — same senior team, same standards.

Don't Take Our Word for It.

From stylised 2D particle systems to cinematic Unreal environments — the work speaks.

Ready To Make Effects Worth Shipping?

Tell us what you’re building. We’ll make it look the part — without costing you frame rate.