Heyo! I’m planning on doing a Jack-o-lantern loot box that explodes with evil candy that the player would then unwrap. I want to push my animation skills and keeping a clear visual hierarchy.
Current WIP:
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I’m doing so retroactive progress steps showing my process so far.
First up, I gathered some references.
This one of a chemical reaction inside a Jack-O-Lantern was what really got my creative thinking:
I also collected some game visual reference, and turns out I gravitate towards liking Blizzard games loot box animations because I really like these,
From the Overwatch 1 Halloween event:
From Heroes of the Storm:
Then like two weeks ago, I was on a plane with my iPad and start planning out the effect with concepts of the different stages.
Also did some thinking about how I wanted to split everything up into quads and other meshes:
This week I’ve been blocking things out in Unity with a timeline, just getting all of my base elements in place. I did have some fun doing some squash and stretch on this old pumpkin model I have!
Got the method I want to emulate for the magic charge up from Augie’s post here
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