hehe nice! try twisting/twirling actual characters geometry, or maybe try making refraction effect that it in the middle a bit larger? and maybe a bit more leaves after the teleport? looks great so far and those splines/trails looks amazing…
cool. nicely whipping trails there. ends a bit abrupt, but i guess at that time there will be fiercly glowing arrowhead already in place to cover that. Or is it just the gif cut off early? …anyway, sweet stuff!
ah yeah okay, I guessed so after looking at the longer shot above ^^. Which brings me to another annotation, would be cool to see the projectile forming and growing with the absorbed trails before the shot, to keep the energy condensing in one spot until the owl bursts out