Official VFX Sketch #42: Weapon Swipe

[NateLane]

A couple resources / awesome references that come to mind

Breakdown from @Beardilocks on making trails:

Tutorial for creating non-destructive attack swipe meshes in Maya (Maya攻击刀光)

[DArius%20Autos] Hi Realtime VFX! I saw recently a post about “Soulercoasters”, and thought that I would share the best method I’ve found for making mesh swipes for attack animations. This is the technique I always use when making attack swipes on League, as you can see in the image above where I made these for High Noon Darius. The reason that this method is good is because it focuses on working non-destructively - that is, by doing certain steps in maya we create a mesh which we can easily …

Concept from Chelsea Jinxu Du on Artstation

Swipe Attack FX from CGWell: CGwell第一期网络特效班011学员474特效Demo_哔哩哔哩_bilibili