Aran Anderson: Sketch #18 - Hologram

Aran.Anderson · November 6, 2018, 11:00pm

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Original Post:

Hi!

I hope to use this hologram sketch as a chance to play around with Niagara in UE4, and also to bring one of my girlfriend’s VFX concepts to life ( https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qxrVz ).

So far i’ve got 2 emitters setup where i’m spawning the particles from:

Sphere emitter along the floor where the blue / purple particles will rise up with some curl noise to build up the Hologram.
Static mesh emitter for the skeleton that gets created by those particles and increase in density.

Kanoba · November 7, 2018, 3:07am

Very cool! excited to see how this comes together especially using Niagara

Aran.Anderson · November 19, 2018, 11:17pm

Added a cylinder location emitter for the purple / blue glows that increases it’s height over the emitter age.
Matched the mesh skeleton emitter’s particles location with the glows to increase with the height of the cylinder emitter.
Created a pixel / static material for the particles that ramps up and down to make it more distorted as it builds up.
3 Rotating wireframe mesh rings that fade in overtime at the bottom.

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Shr1mpsy · November 20, 2018, 11:05am

Hey, cool! Looking forward for more. And UI hologram

PS: I can’t comment on artstation, because I haven’t upload a portfolio yet. Please tell your girlfriend, I like the Hexagon punks concept!

Aran.Anderson · November 20, 2018, 11:22pm

Added a cylinder glow beam with a pixel / static / distorted material that increases it’s height.
The mesh skeleton fades in behind the particles to add more depth.
Softened the gradient of the skeleton particles appearing in.
The wireframe mesh rings now scale in rather than pop in.

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