There is nothing like inventing effects. For example, when you need to portray magic.
Well, actually, a lot of it usually involves what you know and giving it a magical look, spreading magic that looks like water etc. it all depends on how much time you have to experiment.
As my personal hero is Michel Gagne, anyone who knows his work will recognize the influence. If you don't know his work, check it out.
Here is my take on the magic metamorphosis that occurs at the end of the MIKMAK film. Sorry for the spoiler, to whoever it may concern. I was thinking mostly about light, probably because of the fact that the crystal emits light and that's the source of its magic.
The main idea was as if the crystal is a character, and it does a double-take. its starts....retreats...and comes back in full force. This would intensify the magic wave that occurs, after the energy is fulled back into the crystal. There could have been more ways to use the effect better. I think that a longer pause before the wave could have worked better. If you don't believe me, ask the kings on pauses, Nir and Gali, nobody does it better. No can can make a Pause work like these two.
Fire
There were a few places that required fire here, the monsters spit fire, there was a dream sequence with fire.
Here are some spots. My original fire was treated differently, you will see it in the next post, as I will talk a bit about proof of concept. But I don't think that this needs more introduction and explaining.
Electricity
That's always fun. I think that electricity was among the first effects I dealt with. Eventually, most of it was cut, or tuned down, but here are a few shots where its pretty much the same as it was delivered.
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