Heart Shield VFX Effect

For this VFX effect, it was to create another shield out of Hearts inside of Unity. I began my process by using Photoshop to construct the materials that would help build upon this effect. By thinking how this should transition into each stage I was able to layer the effect to. I then wanted to use a 3D model Heart that would be above the player spurting out more hearts while the central shield rotated around the player.
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I went into Maya to construct the 3D model by manipulating the box geometry, shaped the heart model to how I wanted it to look, unwrapped the heart, and then I exported the model as an FBX file into Unity. In the second version, I have included another animation of the biped character, so he is blocking. Thank you for watching!
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Credits for the sound used:

Track: Electro-Light - Symbolism [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__CRWE-L45k.
Free Download / Stream: http://ncs.io/symbolism.