Stylized Visual Effects | Rift City Rebels
Rift City Rebels is a 2D platform fighter, and was the final term project for my class at Red River College. It was a lot of fun to work on all aspects of the game, but my favourite by far was developing different visual effects to support the amazing characters my classmates created. Here are some of the more fun ones.
Magical-girl inspired teleport effect for EK-0, the adventurous android. Model and animation by Annie Wiebe.
Demonstration of the parameters available for the teleport effect. The galaxy effect is done as a cubemap, to exaggerate the effect of looking through the character into another space.
Material graph for the teleport. Encapsulated in a material function so it didn't clutter the main character material. In order for the lines streaming down to extend beyond the character's silhouette, the model is stretched upwards above the cutoff point
Marker to indicate the teleport point for Kite, the rabbit ninja. Scroll model and textures by Winson Ta.
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Material Graph for the scroll burning effect. I used vertex color to help control the direction and strength of both the waving effect, which was done through vertex offsetting, and the burn effect.
A goop explosion effect for Kane, the corrupt CEO.
Material graph for the goop explosion. The final effect layered a bunch of spheres with different colors, scales and lifetimes in one niagara system.
Animation and screen crack effect for Warden. Model by Takkaya Leeladechakul.