Ben Cloward
Ben Cloward is a Web Development YouTube channel with 83.4K subscribers. As of September 2026, it has published 331 videos with 6.3M total views (~3.2K per video), and a 5.3% engagement rate — top 13% of Web Development educators. It covers Unreal Engine and uploads on a bi-weekly basis.
Shader creation and other game dev tips and tricks in Unity and Unreal. My opinions are my own and do not represent the positions of my employer. Ben Cloward has been a game dev for over 20 years and has been creating shaders since 2003. He was a co-creator of ShaderFX, a plugin (originally for 3ds Max) that allows artists to create real-time shaders using a node-based interface. ShaderFX is now built in to Max and Maya as the main way that real-time shaders are created. Ben was the original
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Ben Cloward (@bencloward) is a web development YouTube channel with 83.4K subscribers. With 331 videos and 6.3M total views, the channel averages 3.2K views per video. Ben Cloward has an engagement rate of 5.3%, placing it in the top 13% of web development educators on the platform. The channel uploads on a bi-weekly basis, making it a active creator in the developer education space. Ben Cloward covers technologies including Unreal Engine.