WIP - Green fire magic projectile

Hi everyone, I’ve been working on this green fire projectile as part of my vfx learning roadmap. I’m still really new to vfx (been working as a generalist mostly and recently fell in love with vfx art) so any C&C will be greatly appreciated! :blush:

I tried to replicate this effect (at 0.13)

The projectiles are moving along 3 different splines but i don’t have a way to change their speed/time yet (currently working on it!) so the timing feels a bit off.

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Hmm looking good, my general feelings are as such,

Something about the inner trail doesn’t gel with the rest of the particles.

The effect in the other reel has a bit more colour in it, more blues and yellows in the trail + a brighter ball head.
Unlike your trail, their trail would appear to taper more over it’s life and I might be seeing little streaks inside it?

Hope it helps :slight_smile:

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Hey, thanks for the feedback!

Yes my trail isn’t melding with the “fiery” effect as much as I’d like. I’m pretty sure he’s using some distortion/refraction on the “fiery” part but i don’t really know how to do that yet ahah

I’ll keep experimenting with it and post a wip as soon as i get a decent result :stuck_out_tongue:

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