Hey All!
So this is my first ever attempt at entering a competition on here. I have never done a sword trail so thought it was the perfect one to get in on. Recently I have been playing ALOT of Ni No Kuni 2 and the effects are just absolutely stunning.
Therefore, I have put together this sword trail and tried to give it a stylised look. Used one of the Infinity Blade swords for this.
If anyone has any tips or tricks or just straight up critique of this it would be most welcome! I hope you like it 
(P.S. sorry for the janky recording… seems to only switch to 1080 quality half way through the vid, although that might just be for me)
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nice!
Personally I’d make it more poppy. RIght now it feels more like a sword “wave”. Less like a slash. I think you could resolve that by having less keyframes in the middle of your arc, and really exaggerating the ease-in /out of the beginning/end of your animation
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Cheers!, thats a good shout, I’ll adjust the animation tomorrow
Really nice work! Are you using a conventional ribbon or trail out of engine or a custom mesh for this? Looks fantastic!
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Thanks! Yeah just a bog standard ribbon trail for this one in UE4 (well 2 the refraction is on a second trail as I haven’t worked out how to get it in one trail yet )
