Beau Snider
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Ice Shield Explosion

Had an ABSOLUTE blast creating this effect, started out by making a concept of something I wanted to have that involved an ice shield with an explosion afterward, learned a lot about magical explosions in one of the lessons from VFX Apprentice which helped me a lot to create this effect as a student there.

The full Ice Shield skill that bursts out into an explosion attack.

Ice Shield with a depth effect to it, a total of 6 meshes where every layer has its own purpose, some might have a scrolling texture to give a magical feeling to it and some have a cracked timing and animation to it to build up the tension.

Ice Shield with a depth effect to it, a total of 6 meshes where every layer has its own purpose, some might have a scrolling texture to give a magical feeling to it and some have a cracked timing and animation to it to build up the tension.

A small gif to show multiple combined elements of the ground after the explosion, different types of smoke were made and I purposefully tried to have the inner circle have lots of depth and have an outside ring that shows a good base for a damaged area.

A small gif to show multiple combined elements of the ground after the explosion, different types of smoke were made and I purposefully tried to have the inner circle have lots of depth and have an outside ring that shows a good base for a damaged area.

The 2 meshes I made for my Ice Shield.

The 2 meshes I made for my Ice Shield.

Some of the textures I have drawn or that I made in Substance Designer, was the first time using SD ever and it was super overwhelming at first but eventually made a lot of textures with SD and even hand-drew over some of them.

Some of the textures I have drawn or that I made in Substance Designer, was the first time using SD ever and it was super overwhelming at first but eventually made a lot of textures with SD and even hand-drew over some of them.

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