Creating Hovering Predators for Gears 5: Hivebusters

The Coalition has recently released the Gears 5 DLC expansion called Hivebusters and one of the challenges they had was to create hummingbird-style monsters. The predator they designed needed to hover but making such a large creature look believable turned out to be difficult. Ryan DowlingSoka has recently shared a post on ArtStation on how they made the beast fly with the help of Houdini.

The process was all about experimenting and initially, they thought about just using motion blur but the result didn't turn out great.

In the end, they decided to set up large figure-eight translucent cards attached to each wing using a scrolling pre-blurred texture. You can find the full breakdown with more details here. 

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