Little Legends - Bellswayer VFX
Some work I did to assist the Little Legends team a few months back. These are pets you can earn or purchase to be your avatar during one of our game modes. These guys are called Bellswayers. I affectionately named the little helpers Bell Buddies.
Each Bellswayer has it's own unique colors and idle plant effects. All of them needed the same trail and sparkles with hues that matched the skin. I had fun adding little step marks under each Bellswayer as well.
Trails! You can get some great motion to trails by making sure that your texture makes sense for the direction that it's going to flow. Make sure the eye has shapes it can follow as it flows that emphasize the direction and add interest to the shapes.
The six different idle variations for the Bellswayers different skins. They had to be pretty cheap so very simple meshes were used. I ended up liking the gummy flowers the best as the bounce was really satisfying.
Bouncy gummies!