Anime Thunder Slash

HOW IT'S MADE

Anime Thunder Slash is drawn with 2 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 3 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: procedural lightning, paths, particles stretched along their motion, keyframed parameters and post filters (bloom and impact frames).

It loops seamlessly every 1 s, and one layer fires in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. Start times are staggered from 0 s to 0.12 s, so the layers arrive one after another. To recolour the line, select "Slash" and change Core and Glow; Start and End set how much of it is drawn. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

1. Slashstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a path. Its start and end are keyframed, so it writes itself on and off. It wobbles like unstable energy.
2. Slash Bolt 1lightning / additiveA lightning bolt striking upward every 1 s. It forks into branches.
3. Slash Bolt 2, Slash Bolt 3lightning / additiveA lightning bolt striking sideways every 1 s. It forks into branches.
4. Hit Flashparticles / additiveA single particle at 0.08 s. It grows as it ages. Colour: white.
5. Fizzing Sparksparticles / additiveA stream of streaks along a path, its rate keyframed over the loop. They fall under gravity and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to blue over each life.
6. Stray Arcsparticles / additiveA stream of sparks along a path, its rate keyframed over the loop. Colours range between white and blue.
7. Afterglowstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a path. It wobbles like unstable energy.