Anime Black Flame Slash

HOW IT'S MADE

Anime Black Flame Slash is a compact effect made from 5 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: glowing strokes traced along shapes, paths, particles stretched along their motion, keyframed parameters and post filters (outline, bloom and impact frames).

It loops seamlessly every 1.4 s, and one layer fires in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. To change its colour, select "Crimson Haze" in the studio and edit Colour A and Colour B. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

1. Crimson Hazeparticles / additiveA stream of soft glows along a path, its rate keyframed over the loop. Colour: red.
2. Crimson Flamesparticles / additiveA stream of flames along a path, its rate keyframed over the loop. They float upward, sway from side to side and swell and then shrink away. Colour runs from pale red to red over each life.
3. Black FlamesparticlesA stream of flames along a path, its rate keyframed over the loop. They float upward, sway from side to side and swell and then shrink away. Colour: black.
4. Slashstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a path. Its start and end are keyframed, so it writes itself on and off.
5. Burning Scarstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a path. It wobbles like unstable energy.
6. Slash Sparksparticles / additiveOne burst of 30 streaks from a disc at 0.1 s. They fall under gravity and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to red over each life.
7. Embersparticles / additiveA stream of soft glows along a path, its rate keyframed over the loop. They sway from side to side and shrink as they age. Colours range between pale red and red.