Judge feedback

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• Very good effect - nice timing, good use of different technical effects. Good workflow and tidy material graphs. Would recommend trying to make this in Niagara as the next step. Good work!
• I would say, you have done a pretty good. My feedback would be, I feel around 1 to 2 second, had you done the explosion part bit more faster instead of hovering there quite some time, that would give an extra punch to this vfx. Best of luck for your future.
• I really like this effect. The more I look at it the more it becomes appealing. Really great work overall! I like the timing, I can imagine a wizard snapping their fingers and the effect plays out nicely. Visually, I think there are a few elements that are a bit rought and could use some love :wink wink: For example the final rising hearts models could be polished by adding a few more subdivisions to the models, to make the edges less harsh. And maybe add a soft fresnel to the outside heart to give it that nice soft feel. The noise texture used for the dissolving the 3D hearts and the torus it's a bit harsh compared to the softness of all the other elements. The rest is great honestly. Good job on the values and contrast of the colors. Great work on the research and the concept you did is wonderful. I can see you put lots of effort into it and it shows. Well done! On a separate note, I highly recommend leaving Cascade behind as soon as possible and moving on to Niagara. Once you get familiar with it, you should find that it's a lot more powerful and user friendly. But as you say in your notes, looks like you're already doing that, so yeah don't be afraid and again, great job.