Hot Mess

You’ve seen Ice EOL’s ability. Fire EOL melts immovable iron crates. Here’s a quick look at how the animation evolved.

First attempt was too slow:

Better:

The follow through looked good too:

Except the trail it left created problems when destroying from above or below so I panicked and created a simpler, animation that could be used from all directions:

I hated this and went to bed, defeated. The next morning I woke up and revisited the original idea and ended on this:

Last but not least I revisited my head first, feet then fists, and finally torso process and created EOL’s recoil animation: