Full FX
Heart close up, mesh has 2 UV maps one regular UV map, and one projected front view which is used for the WPO to scroll upwards.
Heart Motion
Heart Material, some fresnel shenanigans with a stationary noise texture for the shiny particles, and a scrolling normal map over the innermost glowing portion of the heart. as well as a super basic WPO function to scroll a mask upwards.
super basic magic circle texture, feel free to download and use in your projects but please credit me.
Wings
This was a quick healing spell project I did to show off how much my timing has improved, and to build a more gameplay focused effect, something that can be cast quickly in an RPG.
The overall shape is meant to represent the Rod of Asclepius, a symbol of a staff with a snake coiled around it with angel's wings. With the heart being the top of the staff, the character being the staff itself and the soulercoaster being the snake. The wings are meant to show energy radiating from the character as they are healed as well as being the wings of the Rod of Asclepius.
Meshes made in Houdini and Blender.
This FX contains a handful of textures from the infinity blade FX pack. As well as 1MAFX's Noise texture pack.
Character anims from Sakurai's Magical Animset https://fab.com/s/fdf327171f33
Huge huge huge thank you to the many extremely talented artists both on LinkedIn and the VFXA Discord server who gave me feedback throughout this process, I love getting constructive feedback as it genuinely helps me to be a better VFX artist than i was yesterday.
