JangaFX was founded in 2016 by Nick Seavert as a birthday gift to himself. Originally a real-time VFX artist in games, Nick was upset with how limited tools for visual effects were at the time. He wanted to make tools that didn’t suck and were actually fun to use. Stable, crash free, and real-time was the dream. Rather than accepting outside investment to fund the company, which would put shareholders first and customers last, Nick bootstrapped JangaFX through maxing out credit cards, software sales, and a full-time job in the industry. Morten Vassvik, our technical co-founder, joined the team in late 2017 and without him, we would have never been able to build our tools.

Our first tool, a real-time vector field generator called VectorayGen, was released in 2017 and was met with relative praise. It’s what got our foot in the door at some large game studios and was the stepping stone for our next product, EmberGen. VectorayGen was discontinued in 2023 due to limited future potential. Our flagship product EmberGen was released in 2019 and became the worlds first real-time volumetric fluid simulation tool built for production work. EmberGen has since been adopted by most AAA game studios and is the key tool that has funded our growth. Throughout the years as our revenue has increased, we have continued to invest in our team and have grown to a team size of 25. In an effort to expand our innovative contributions to the industry, we’re creating two new tools: LiquiGen, and GeoGen. LiquiGen is a real-time liquid simulator and GeoGen is a fresh take on real-time terrain and planet generation. Bundle them all together and you get the Elemental Suite: Fire, Earth, and Water.

So what’s next? Our aim is to continue creating incredible tools for real-time VFX artists and environment artists in games and film. The Elemental Suite’s offerings will continue to grow and we hope that you’ll choose the Elemental Suite as your platform to Master the Elements.