Ghostly Body Effect?
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Hi there,
I use Autodesk Maya and have been learning it for a while and always try to understand examples of cool 3D graphics I find. I saw this recent trailer for Killer Instinct for the character Omen and I was impressed by how his body just looks like this ghostly electric being.
How would you make a similar looking effect in Maya? What is it even called?
I use Autodesk Maya and have been learning it for a while and always try to understand examples of cool 3D graphics I find. I saw this recent trailer for Killer Instinct for the character Omen and I was impressed by how his body just looks like this ghostly electric being.
How would you make a similar looking effect in Maya? What is it even called?
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1) There is a special transparency on the mesh using the buffer so you don't see into the backfaces of the geo. It's a bit like taking a screengrab every frame and turning down the opacity in photoshop for that element instead of just making the object alpha transparent. Gets a much cleaner result
2) There also seems to be a refraction/distortion effect on top. This can be done by scrolling a wavy normal map over some geo and using that to drive distortion of the buffer. A lot of games use this to fake heat distortion.
Bit of an ugly example but you can see a similar effect here in unity.
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3) The character himself also has a fresnel shader effect which is ramping in a brighter color for the face normals angled away from the camera. Thats whats giving him a rim lit look. This is also used by many real time renderers to do cloth shaders (marmoset toolbag calls it fuzz)
4) And lastly there are some smokey particles effects probably being spawned from certain skeleton joints.
Achieving all these different things in Maya is kinda tricky. They are working on the real time side of stuff but it has only been a priority in the last handful of years. But if you were to have any luck your best bet would be maya 2015 ShaderFX
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Personally I would just grab a copy of Unreal Engine 4 as its much more advanced for this kind of stuff and really cheap now ($19 a month or one time payment if you dont think you will need the updates).
https://www.unrealengine.com/what-is-unreal-engine-4
I do also use Unity and have been recently learning UE4 for the past few months. It's certainly an interesting engine. Trying to learn how to use Blueprints competently since I know just about nothing in C++.