Magical Hat Trick | Unreal Challenge: Spellar Performance

Here is my submission 'Magical Hat Trick' for the 2023 Unreal Challenge: Spellar Performance! The challenge was introduced on February 2nd and contestants were given until March 2nd to submit their entries.

Due to some unfortunate circumstances in my personal life, I was unable to begin production on my entry until the 23rd of February, which was not as much time as I had hoped for. However, I did my best with the time I had and rather enjoyed the process of making it happen.

This is a visual effect cast from a book to summon a cat. Once cast, it creates magic circle on the ground with particles that float into a hat. After all the particles have gone into the hat, the cat is summoned. The runes in the circle spell out "cat", and the icon in the centre is a cat's face. I only considered making the icons of the floating particles little paws post-release (very unfortunate).