Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Arceus Encounter [Video Concept/FanArt] VFX Breakdown

This is a Fan Art animation, montage, concept that I made in Unity.
This is not a Game. This is a video Concept. There will be no more process or new videos.
Made for educational, Portfolio, learning and hobby purposes, not for profit (this video is not monetized).

I'm such a fan of Pokemon that I wanted to recreate the scene from the original Nintendo DS game (https://youtu.be/YNoKvwJn4PA?t=173) but in 3D from scratch.

Thanks to this exercise I was able to learn a lot: How to organize my tasks, workflow, improve as a VFX artist / Technical Artist, animation, 3D, shaders, texture skills, UI, Audio and unity engine tools such as environment artists, programming, cinematics and animation.

I used some mixamo animations to start from a base. The same with some textures and models. I did not make any sound, but I did do a lot of mixing and the complete montage.

Thanks to @Zame for the music!
https://twitter.com/Zame_It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhiomP6cFUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8AUudI34UI

Concept for arceus mega evolution, image by hyshirey:
https://www.deviantart.com/hyshirey/art/Mega-Primal-Arceus-541134772

Contact:
AdrianMendezzGarcia@gmail.com
https://twitter.com/AdrianMendezzG

COMPLETE VIDEO HD 4K

All VFX are using an Uber Shader fully editable

Uber VFX Shader

All Uber VFX Shader sub functions

To make this procedural manga style effect I'm making a shader function to detect sudden color changes (Sobel filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobel_operator) and adding a distortion on the vertical axis.

Sobel Manga Procedural Shader

Dynamic Day Night procedural Skybox Shader

Skybox Shader

Character NPR Shader (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/wJZ4Gg)

Character NPR Shader

Shadow on face looks ugly, instead of editing normals or adding a shadow map I just made a switch between shadow and light as fast as possible. I saw this technique in Honkai Impact (Mobile Game).

Procedural Speed Lines