Daniel Kończyk
Senior VFX Artist
Cynthia VFX in Alan Wake 2
Cynthia fight is one of the main bossfights in Alan Wake 2 and I had the pleasure to create a whole set of VFX for that fight. This includes:
- Cynthia's wave attacks, with anticipation and water interactions
- Projectiles made of Darkness, using Dark Veil tech I made
- Lots of smaller effects eg. water splashy interactions, ripples etc.
- Scripting it all using Lua - how fun!
All water splashes used here were rendered by me and used my water shaders that I also made for Rain
Cynthia shoots a lot of half darkness half water waves at the player. Darkness part uses the Dark Veil blur system I made. It packs a punch!
Cynthia also shoots kind of slowly moving missiles that fly towards the player and detonate, made almost entirely from Dark Veil.
