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[polygonparade-blog]

Lowpoly streetcar modeled in #blender3d and rendered with #eeveerenderer . . Follow @polygonparade for more lowpoly 3D posts. . . DM me for collaborations or freelance work. . . #lowpoly #lowpoly3d #lowpolyart #blender #blendercommunity #blendercentral #blenderrender #blenderart #3dart #streetcar #tram #3dmodeling #digitalart #digitalillustration #cgart #blendershare https://www.instagram.com/p/CBnBENDqCjo/?igshid=22pq1o76h9bz

[kiusep3d-blog]

"Only the open eyes can discover that the universe is the book of the highest truth." Cit. RUMI 🌌✨✨✳️ . . "Solo gli occhi aperti possono scoprire che l'universo è il libro della più alta verità." Cit. RUMI 🌌✨✨✳️ . . #CWSGaming #3d #render #blendercommunity #3dprinting #blender #3dmodeling #3dmodel #3dart #blender3d #eeveerender #eeveerenderer #3dartist #digital3d #3drendering #3drender #3dillustration #blender28 #modelado3d #blender3drenders #modelling3d #cyclesrender #modeling3dblender #environment #3dconcept #Blenderitalia #space #wallpaper #wallpapers (presso Piacenza) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4vC5KxKBCK/?igshid=1o2bgepediplv

[agurex7]

Blender 2.8 Eevee Render time: 2 seconds Hmm... Might try making a photorealistic 3d animation again. #blender #photorealism #3d #CGI #eevee #eeveerenderer #blender28 #lionx #youtube #youtuber #realistic #PBR https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jkuhmlax-/?igshid=78z9ha47wnbr

[crystallisedentertainment]

So I’ve hidden the bones to show you the pose better; but I’ve slowly been making progress towards animating the top portion of the mane and have theme in a pose where it looks like gravity has effected them... As I suspected this is taking a rediculous amount of time to complete, both thanks to the compexity of the animation I’m trying to duplicate, and the fact performance on the laptop is laughably bad for the price it was.

On that note: tomorrow I will not be working on this short as I’ll be preparing for the 3 hour drive back home tomorrow. Basically the thing that caused me to leave in a rush has cleared up enough where I feel I can return home... Hopefully this’ll mean I’ll return back to an acceptable level of efficiency like it was 4 weeks ago (basically a month)... ^^”

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Update time!

So just like in Cinema 4D, I have figured out a way to be able to switch on the fly the different eyebrow expressions through a single slider! This took me a while to figure out (especially on the ‘alpha’ side), but after figuring out how to configure boolean drivers; everything just fell into place and is working flawlessly. And to make it even better, the implementation is a let less custom then what I had to do in C4D - thank goodness you can drive Boolean (True/False) values! XD

So both the ‘alpha’ and the accompanying texture set switches seamlessly, but I’ve only have the ‘alpha’ visible as the 3 texture sets are just using my template file right now, which are all the same, so there’s no point showing that right now...^^

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Hey everyone! Been a while since I specifically posted an update regarding the current animation project, but over the last few days I’ve been getting on with the refinement process for Unicorn Twilight’s animation!

I ended up deleting the block I did back in September and ended up using the “Straight Ahead” principle to animate the emotion I wanted, opposed to my preferred “Pose to Pose” style I animate in... And considering the way I animated this specific shot - I’m happy how appealing to the eye it ended up being! =)

Today I did the lipsync and facial expression animation which went ahead with little issue or anything to note; it’s pretty close to the reference footage I took for this shot. I also decided to animate the camera to give the shot some life, which has also came out very appealing to the eye - so that’s good! =)

Lighting is next, and that’ll take a few days in itself.

Performance wise, l I cannot get over how smooth Blender is compared to the old Hackintosh: The viewport feels more snappy and I can playback at the full 24FPS (compared to the 8-12FPS on the Hackintosh). Considering the specs is comparable to a contemporary HP Z4 workstation, I couldn’t be happier of New Octane! =)

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Good morning everyone! I know today is April Fools, but this ain’t no joke - I’m currently streaming some work on Twilight Trouble over on YouTube... I aim to get some of the mane done today. =)

As always, you can catch it above! ^^

[crystallisedentertainment]

Hey everyone! It’s been a while since I had anything BTS-related to post here... and even longer since it was about Twilight Trouble!

They’re has been good reason for the lack of updates - I’ve been trying to take not grind so hard on my projects and always being on the cusp of burning myself as I’ve been practically for the last 2 years on and off (thanks mainly to the tight deadlines on the collabs, not helped by how long it takes to render these things out compared to SFM), that’s not to say I’ve not given myself more deadlines, I’ve just been more lenient��then I have been. 

TL;DR - I’ve been trying to work like I did in 2016 with less stress then I have been!

With this in mind, last week I spent last week lipsyncing both Twilights, which went pretty smoothly thanks to the fact a large portion of this shot they don’t speak, and when they did was pretty easy to get the phonemes I wanted by just dragging the bones to the right place and saying out the characters’ lines a syllable at a time!  When they talk over each other towards the latter half of the shot, I decided to split the dialogue up into 2 separate audio files so I could understand what they both are saying - they don’t say exactly the same thing, so doing this way definitely helped and you can see watching the shot back the mouths of both characters move slightly different... So overall, I’m happy with that! =)

Moving onto this week I spent yesterday and Monday doing the facial expressions; which while I was a little slower then I would’ve liked, the results speaks for themselves (did a very similar thing as what I did for the lipsync), so I’m not going to dwell too much on this. And that moves us on swiftly onto today where I’ve started lighting the shot! I’ve done around 40% of the lighting for the shot - I started at a point both characters were standing and moved backwards to the beginning... It was basically rotoscoping again because instead of moving forwards from the beginning, I did go backwards which does have some extra worked involved. Overall, I’m happy with the results, though there is still some fine tuning needed on Unicorn Twi while she is laying down before I say that section is “done”. 

I have done a test render to see how the final frame will more or less look like. =)

With any luck, I plan to finish the lighting tomorrow with the goal of starting the second longest shot of this short - which is shot 3! Shot 1 is longer then the entirety of Outside if we do not count the COPPA warning and end card sequence... ^^”

[crystallisedentertainment]

So today I polished up the first shot for rendering... Luckily for me I only needed to add a single spot light to the scene and increase the radius and disable shadows and it was practically done thanks to the actual sun on the “map”! I like the look with the addition of the spotlight as it gives a nice gradient from end of the character to the other, which I feel makes it a tad more visually appealing.

I also did a test render of the entire shot to see how it would play out at full speed and the results seem pleasing enough where I greenlit the entire shot for rendering... ^^”

I also started refining the second shot in the series, and thanks to the fact this shot only plays for 15 frames, and that the animation is pretty simple anyways - I have done the refine pass on the body itself and added the ear animation; so tomorrow’s task is to animate the mane. I know the only reason I’m blasting through this shot so quickly is due to the short length, and the majority of the body is out of frame, meaning I don’t animate all of the usual elements! ^^”

It’s nice seeing some green again on a shot list after 5 months since finishing my last short... And for projects that full into the “short-term” category; that’s personally not a great place to be... ^^”

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So I finished texturing the bedroom yesterday as well as providing some basic sunlight for lighting; I just didn’t have time to setup a “showcase” until this morning. This post is split into 2 parts due to the fact Tumblr doesn’t support 14 images in a single post, so yeah...

This is still not the most up-to-date version of my bedroom and there are things missing: my posters on the wall is the most prominent thing, but considering the camera will never see it; I just didn’t see putting the time in for it TBH!

You may have noticed some nice reflections on certain textures, as if the thing was rendered in Cycles... This is because I accidentally stumbled upon a feature in EEVEE called “Screen Space Reflections” - which the best way I can explain it is a basic realtime-raytracer. It has it’s limitations, and the indirect lighting is rudimentary compared to a traditional renderer; but it’s cool that EEVEE has this mode in it!

I’ve dailed-in the settings a little because I never took “SSR” into consideration, so my “plastic” is looking more shiny then I would like, so changing SSR’s settings made this a lot better! Though a proper fix would be to go back and directly update the textures, if I had the time. ^^”

But overall, I really like the outcome of this updated model, and I’m pleased how the textures look with the raytraced-looking reflections, it’s still a visually appealing model despite the libations of EEVEE! =)

[crystallisedentertainment]

So it’s that time again! Today I’m planning to finish working on the back mane of Unicorn Twilight in my Blender short “Twilight Trouble”! As always, you can catch it above! =)

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So it’s been a few days since coming home, and it has been a hectic one with me trying to organise everything to their correct places, which has resulted in slow progress has been made to Twilight Trouble (but still faster then when I was on my laptop).

However, the top mane is nearing completion and I recon if I dedicate the day to it, it should be done by then and maybe even start on the back portion of the mane! Playing it back I’m pleased on how it is turning out.

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“Twilight Trouble” Update

Hey y’all! It’s time for yet another for my Blender short “Twilight Trouble”: I’ve been borrowing a more powerful system the last few days and like a group of volunteer programmers hire a professional couple days - an amazing amount of progress has been done in this short amount of time! In the last few days I’ve finished the intial refine pass of Unicorn Twilight and have done the ear animations.

So I’m extremely pleased on the progress I’ve made, but I suspect that was the easier part and the hair related animation is the time consuming part... But I won’t know for certain until tomorrow... ^^”

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Updates

So there is a few things I want to talk about, and thus we’re doing a “2 for 1″ special post...

Firstly: after taking way too long to complete, I’ve finally blocked out the turn/walk cycle for both Twilights. I’m happy on how it looks in it’s unpolished state, but it was not worth 3 days of my time to block all that out... Tomorrow I’ll start refining the short - I plan to refine shots 1, 3 and 2 in that order due to the length, and the complexities needed to get the animations to look right.

Finally but certainly not least is the C4D short: overall it’s coming together! Music is slowly being completed and sounds absolutely amazing so far! There is still some fixes needed on the fourth shot as well as some overall refinements needed on audio balancing... But other then that, that short is ready to be released! Hopefully I can get it out before the end of the month... =)

And that wraps up everything I wanted to share. Overall - the end of 2020 is shaping up to be a content filled one... =)

[crystallisedentertainment]

So sadly I did not get as much done as I hoped, in and out of stream, as the Twilight on the left still needs here turn/walk cycle complete... Which I hoped I would at least complete today... However, the it’s still further on the other Twilight had done by the time I needed to switch gears in the afternoon. 

So that’s something...