February 4, 2025 / 33 min readLast Updated: February 4, 2025Spending the better part of 2024 learning new shader techniques and concepts through the lens of post-processing has been the spark I needed to come up with ever more intricate, detailed, and ambitious creative work. Not only do I now know the inner workings of specific styles like Moebius, Painting, or Retro, but it also got me to a point where I strengthened the many shader mental models I built along the years enough to experiment wi...