[fidel100]

Great post!!! It remainds me of Okami. I bet they used this kind of technique somewhere.

[Jasper_]

Okami's wind spiral effects are, believe it or not, mostly static geometry, with some cleverly placed vertex colors and masks to handle the fade-outs. You can see a mini-breakdown of the effect here.

Scrolling textures can do a lot!

https://twitter.com/JasperRLZ/status/1173397034088271873