Giant Cosmic Meteor
I made this for the Artstation VFX challenge here: https://www.artstation.com/challenges/dragons-rise-the-forgotten-realms/categories/163/briefing?sorting=latest as part of the challenge, we were to choose some concept art from the concept art phase and create it in real time vfx. I picked a cool blue-purple space meteor of some sort that Luis Aguas concepted. This was fun, and challenging, and I'm quite pleased with the end result.
The main effect. The final thing.
The awesome concept art from Luis Aguas that this effect is based on. I tried many different ways to get the circular feeling that his concept has, but just could not find an effective way to do it.
Each element of the meteor before it bursts.
Elements of the meteor on the second half of its descent.
Each particle system used in the explosion and anticipation.
A sample of some of the textures used. All made in photoshop.