Prestige Star Burst

HOW IT'S MADE

Prestige Star Burst is drawn with 3 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 6 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: a vortex, magnets, sprite modules, particles stretched along their motion and post filters (bloom).

It loops seamlessly every 2.4 s, and 4 of its layers fire in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. Start times are staggered from 0 s to 0.95 s, so the layers arrive one after another. To recolour the line, select "Star Outline" 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. Spiral Motesparticles / additiveA stream of streaks from a ring, its rate keyframed over the loop. They spiral into a vortex, are swallowed by a magnet at its centre and slow down with drag. Colour runs from violet to white over each life.
2. Star Outlinestroke / 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.
3. Pinch Glowparticles / additiveA single particle at 0.75 s. It grows as it ages. Colour: pale violet.
4. Prestige Flashparticles / additiveA single particle at 0.95 s. It grows as it ages. Colour: white.
5. Sunburstparticles / additiveOne burst of 14 streaks at 0.95 s. They swell and then shrink away. Colours range between gold and violet.
6. Gold Ring, Purple Ringstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a circle.
7. Gold StarspriteA placed shape. Extras: bounce, outline, shine sweep and glow.
8. Flung Starsparticles / additiveOne burst of 20 stars from a disc at 0.95 s. They fall under gravity, swell and then shrink away, spin and slow down with drag. Colours range between gold and violet.
9. Glitterparticles / additiveA stream of stars from a disc, its rate keyframed over the loop. They swell and then shrink away. Colours range between white and pale violet.