Just wanted to show this that happens during my break time. I had fun checking this montage while letting someone's renders of their vehicles. Not bad that they work hard paid off. 馃槈馃憤
My submission for Pwnisher's "Eternal Ascent" render challenge. The challenge started 2 days after the release of Persona 3 Reload so I stopped everything and did the render about it. I'm excited to actually get to play the game now xD
TLDR: If you want to participate in Star Rail's newest "Dive into Dreams" 3D render competition (and already downloaded templates), I would suggest running a check with your antivirus of choice, especially if you use Maya for 3D.
miHoYo/COGNOSPHERE decided to host a 3D render competition Dive into Dreams as a part of Honkai Star Rail's 1st anniversary events. You may be familiar with this type of challenges from Pwnisher's videos like this one. And indeed, Pwnisher is invited as a special judge for this competition.
In accordance with the competition rules, miHoYo/COGNOSPHERE provided template files for animation and camera settings in a selection of apps such as Blender, Unity, etc. All of those files were packed into a single zip folder with gibberish name b206a8ccf899599f9a8c8f72ac9d9bc1_150411817497617782.zip. Inside this folder, there are separate archives for the app of your choice. And a surprise.
If you check this zip with an antivirus (Windows Defender in my case), it flags the file as containing Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml. Now, there are cases when such mark can be a false positive, so I uploaded it to VirusTotal for verification.
Here's the direct link to the file analysis.
11 flags across multiple antivirises, 2 marks of suspicious behavior.
I contacted miHoYo/COGNOSPHERE, explained the situation and asked to check the files from their side. They actually answered, and after a brief verification reassured me that the file is safe.
So, it was a false positive aftre all, eh? Well...
They replaced the zip folder with template files. Now it's a file named 2e0631cb3ce1c6d115551c02ec005798_728531225225585212.zip and with the total weight of 109.13 MB instead of 111.75 MB of the previous file. Looks like Maya files were repacked, as DID_Template_Maya.rar archive is replaced with DID_Template_Maya_2020.7z.
Here's the direct link to the new file analysis. I added "new_" to its name before noticing that the name's gibberish actually differs from the previous one. ^^""
And while Windows Defender is totally okay with this new file, VirusTotal still shows 3 flags on Maya files.
Now, I know next to nothing about Maya, and I'm not web security expert. Maybe totally safe Maya scripts being falsely flagged by antiviruses is an ordinary Tuesday.
Nevertheless, since miHoYo/COGNOSPHERE opted for a quiet replacement of the file, I would suggest doing a full check with your antivirus just in case.
It鈥檚 finally here!聽 I didn鈥檛 talk about it here, but I made and submitted a piece to Pwnisher鈥檚 3D animation community challenge!聽 Even though I didn鈥檛 make it in it seems, I still had a lot of fun making it, and everyone who did submit did an excellent job!聽 Can鈥檛 wait to see what challenge comes next!
Here鈥檚 previous times when checking on pwnisher鈥檚 YT channel. From having a montage of animators worked hard on their renders to having bizarre results. (Which is actually a good thing)
Which one was your favorite and what did you think will they come up next? I鈥檒l be interested to check out, but not because I wanted to anticipate to enter or anything. Unless when trying to work on small animated clips/shorts.
This is the breakdown video of my submission for the Moving Meditations 3D Challenge hosted by Pwnisher.
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Street Fighter is that legendary game that ruled our childhood and my favorite character was 'Ryu'. This 6-second video is a tribute to him.
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This creation was done in Blender 3D and video post-processed in After Effects..
Nocturn can create dreams, pretty much anything can happen in there. How about he creates a dream where he is acting as a boss in a boss fight against Danny inspired by Boss Fight Render Challange Montage by pwnisher?