CafeMatheo : Sketch #65 "Winter Spell"

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