D&D Inspired Pack - Death's Touch
VFX-Death's Touch
This effect was part of a learning vfx project I did inspired by the Dungeons and Dragons theme. I wanted to present the attack as a Critical result, resulting in an attack roll that causes Death to appear and kill the target by itself. I thought the spell would work in a turn-based game. I used Blender to model the reaper mesh and Unity VFX Graph to get the particle behaviour I needed.
Final result of the effect, working with animation and timing.
The phantasmagoric smoke appears in the level.
Then the death's reaper appears in scene.
The effect is achieved using a noise texture to clip a mesh and setting different alpha values during lifetime.
The dissolve effect can be seen in the dummy object.
The reaper mesh created in Blender.
A gradient noise is used for smoothing the alpha clipping. In this case I decided to use a world position threshold using the Y coordinate.