Excalibur, the Lady of the Lake's gift (Houdini and Unreal Engine)
Excalibur, the Lady of the Lake's gift
Final result
A sketch of the ghostly hand made for setting up colors and the general idea. Watercolor on black paper.
Sword material instance, which appears and dissapears
"A drop of magic" swirl emmiter
Houdini hand particles geometry. For a hand model I choose standard human model in Houdini and modeled it untill it will become a fist and filled it by particles.
Hand emmiter in Niagara
Chaotic emmiters for splash effects
This is my project submitted for 'Medieval: Past and Present' Challenge. I wanted to reconsider the Arthurian myth about the Lady of the Lake and her gift Excalibur, the legendary sword.
The Lady of the Lake's image is strongly connected with legends about faires, so I created a mysterious ghostly hand that shoud be both marvelous and intimidating.
I started my project with a sketch for setting up the colors and the general idea of how I want to show this myth.
Then I created Houdini particle effect for appearing and dissolving hand above the water. This effect should be smooth, so I added also little drops of magic in Niagara, which touch the water first and call the sword.