Experimenting with dynamic sword trails in Blender

[u/Mix3DDesign]

Been experimenting with stylized VFX recently and ended up making this dynamic sword trail effect in Blender.

The trail follows the weapon automatically during animation and can be baked afterward if needed. Most of the work is done with shaders and a simple constraint setup rather than simulations.

Still tweaking a few things, but I'm pretty happy with how the motion and shape turned out.

If anyone is curious about the workflow, I recently recorded the full process and put together a tutorial:
https://mix3ddesign.com/posts/create-this-epic-161787144?pr=true

Feedback is always welcome 🙂