The Run VFX was one of the few that made it in the game. It was one of the first VFX for this project, building the path for other VFX. Especially for using the same Houdini node system.

My first plan was to have little dust clouds coming after the player while running. After doing the early test with boxes, it was clear that it created a lot of noise on the screen, especially having small characters on screen. I then moved forward, having a dust cloud that only appears when the player starts to run.

I played around with many different ways of creating this VFX in Houdini, testing the smoke simulation at first and trying to make a mesh from that. Didint really fit our artstyle, so we moved more forward, using combined moving spheres to create a cloud look that fit our artstyle better.

Dash VFX was another one that couldn't be added in time.
This VFX is different from the other; it uses its own system in Houdini. The action lines were removed in the final version to remove noise. To give the effect more feeling of "speed," it was stretched further, and then fast gets smaller in the end to give the shape a bigger contrast.

The parry VFX was meant for when two arrows from different players hit each other head-on. They will then also spin away in different directions. I worked closely with one of my team animators (Marcus Hultquist) to get good timing on this VFX. Adding emission to make the VFX really pop.