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This is mostly just made as some action practice, as well as a showcase for some new tech I learned. I do think it looks really cool, and it was a fun concept to make though.

I learned a bit more about shading and tried to make something from these toon shader tutorials I watched, which give the characters a more anime styled feel, with really harsh shadow lines. It’s still far from perfect, but it does help to alleviate a bit of that weird “anime character in photorealism” feeling you get a lot of the time using the default XPS shader. I’ll probably play around with this some more and try to get it looking better at some point.

The blood is pretty cool too. At first I was trying to do some kind of stupid volume object which was supposed to look like a mist for when Lyn pulls the sword out of Caeda and it makes the spray. But that made such a thin layer that barely even showed up on camera. So then I just tried making it a solid object with a bloody texture on it and it looks a lot better.

The pool of blood was pretty cool, but it’s super simple. Just an object that grows over time. The blood on Lyn’s sword is a cylinder that gets shrinkwrapped around the sword, and shows up after she gets blood on it. Then the blood that gets flung off the sword is basically the same thing.

The animation itself is pretty neat too. The parry looks decent, and the sparks that fly off the sword look cool. The way Lyn does the anime-attack-unsheath thing looks decent, and both the stepping on the spear and the follow up strike look really smooth. Caeda’s recoil from the parry doesn’t look the best, but it’s still not too bad. It looked horrible at first, so I tried using the graph editor to smooth out the curve and… I have no idea how to use the graph editor. I did get it to look better, but it took me like half an hour of randomly dragging around the handles and being very confused.

Description

This is mostly just made as some action practice, as well as a showcase for some new tech I learned. I do think it looks really cool, and it was a fun concept to make though.

I learned a bit more about shading and tried to make something from these toon shader tutorials I watched, which give the characters a more anime styled feel, with really harsh shadow lines. It’s still far from perfect, but it does help to alleviate a bit of that weird “anime character in photorealism” feeling you get a lot of the time using the default XPS shader. I’ll probably play around with this some more and try to get it looking better at some point.

The blood is pretty cool too. At first I was trying to do some kind of stupid volume object which was supposed to look like a mist for when Lyn pulls the sword out of Caeda and it makes the spray. But that made such a thin layer that barely even showed up on camera. So then I just tried making it a solid object with a bloody texture on it and it looks a lot better.

The pool of blood was pretty cool, but it’s super simple. Just an object that grows over time. The blood on Lyn’s sword is a cylinder that gets shrinkwrapped around the sword, and shows up after she gets blood on it. Then the blood that gets flung off the sword is basically the same thing.

The animation itself is pretty neat too. The parry looks decent, and the sparks that fly off the sword look cool. The way Lyn does the anime-attack-unsheath thing looks decent, and both the stepping on the spear and the follow up strike look really smooth. Caeda’s recoil from the parry doesn’t look the best, but it’s still not too bad. It looked horrible at first, so I tried using the graph editor to smooth out the curve and… I have no idea how to use the graph editor. I did get it to look better, but it took me like half an hour of randomly dragging around the handles and being very confused.