How to create an old school TV turn off effect

Unity Engine
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Hi!
New to Unity here, as said in the title i’d like to create that kind of effect in my 2D game when my plants die :

There is no tutorial available, where do you think I should start ? Would it be a sprite effect or more of a shader ? How would you do that ?
Thank you !

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I’d recommend just playing an image animation of the effect by:

  • Exporting a GIF/Video of the effect into multiple images
  • Importing into Unity as Sprites
  • Use a UI Image and create a new animation which goes through each frame (there are also plugins that let you apply GIFs directly, saving some tedium)
  • Setting the image to active and triggering the animation when desired (this might be helpful How to make AWESOME Scene Transitions in Unity! - YouTube)

I had a similar effect in my recent project and that’s how I went about it.