Hey! First time participating in one of these challenges, I am pretty excited!
I lived in Canada and we sometime have the chance to witness northern lights, I always been amazed by them. I want to make a spell out of those that goes something like that :
-Character absorbs Strands of northern lights into an orb. I want them to be quite colorful and resembles what we could see with the naked eye in real life.
-When the energy reaches its maximum potential, a fast and snappy energy discharge in form of solar flares gets released. Solar flare are gonna have the same color palette as the initials northern lights
-Dissipation, everything cool down.
I will try to keep it quite simple with the time that I have.
EDIT :
packed references into a moodboard
Source :
-Baldur’s gate 3 : Mind blast by Jessica Lecours
-Path of exile : Solar orb by Gabriel Sanches
-Snow stylised environement by Jay Creations
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I bring together a small environment to stage my VFX and a quick paint over “sketch” of the basic steps and feel of the effect.
Source :
Ice Material : NatureManufacture
Animation : Excalibur Studios
Hey there! Here’s my final effect for this sketch. It was the first time for me working with Unreal and specially with magical/stylized effect, I have the habit of doing realistic effect that often have a lot of layers of details that could hide imperfections in timing and clarity. I learned that in the magical and stylized world, timing and clarity need to be top priority and I fear that the northern lights are still quite hard to read… Could be polish way more, but hey deadlines are there for a reason! It was a blast working on it. Hope you like it.
Cafematheo64 - Winter spell
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