Playing with Fire

The 4th of July fireworks are not the only thing blazing with fiery explosiveness this weekend. Nulgath showed the process of how his mixes his hand drawn art with particle FX to create the evolving style of AQWorlds: Infinity new skills, spells, and special FX. 

Side by side, you can see the hand drawn sprite sheet of fire (right) and the particle system (left).

Here you can see the individually drawn frames that make up the fire animation. When you see the sheer amount of animation in both AQWorlds original & Infinity, it is easy to not realize how much effort goes into every single piece. Fun to look behind the scenes to see how the team is blending our traditional techniques with the new features that are now available to us to make the game even better.