Mike's Stuff

Happy new year 🎉.. traditionally late as i needed a few days to recover!:) Wanted to add some animated fireworks on a older static piece i did 2 years ago. Started off well and finished quickly.. then i started animating the characters and got carried away. All done in Blender using Eevee. Post in Premier. Higher rez video below  Some issues: Subsurf modifier makes the render speeds jump up astronomically. Went from 5 sec per frame.. to 30 sec per frame. Transparency modes other then clipped shows up in volumes. Odd reflection issues.

Tea Time at the Two Whales Diner  Try saying that a few times.. Kate and Max finally get some Tea.   Happy Birthday to both these lovely ladies (same month counts!)

This started as a quick Cycles to Eevee conversion practice. But Eevee makes animating so much easier and responsive i got carried away :) First it was a quick window pan.. then i thought i got the whole room to use. One thing led to another,, Procedural animated rain texture bashed together after watching @chiu_hans rain video. Lcd pixel texture by @100drip  

Quick camera pass showing the whole scene of the last piece i did. Usually don't animate stuff, as they take to long to render out but wanted to test how fast it rendered in blender Eevee. It took about 10 sec per frame to render in eevee..  so that a huge time saver for the quality i got.

Was just meant to be Chloe and Rachel alone.. That went out the window :) Rendered in Blender Eevee.

Just wow, the eevee 3d viewport is so nice.. set up a quick 30 frame animation using both eevee 3d view and a rendered version..  Eevee real time view at 62 samples.. just hit play and screen recorded. No waiting just instant result :) This is the eevee render at 65 samples.. about 10 sec to render reach frame, about 12 min to complete. This is so amazing, with volumetric lights as well.. loving it. Also learning we can composite both eevee and cycles renders! That's great and opens up a lot of options.. Render certain objects using Cycles as you know you will get a great result, then compose with a eevee render of say a background, room, volumetic etc

Been playing around with Blender 2.8, figuring out what the new commands do where the old commands have moved etc. It is a big change in the user interface but so far its making sense for me. Big thing to remember, it changes almost nighty and is in alpha . And don't save over any 2.7x work using 2.8. I did it once, and the blend file refused to open in 2.79, so be careful. Eevee is like viewing your 3d world in a game engine.. So like unreal, unity etc. It FAST! You can preview changes real time and make creative decision a lot quicker based on the visual feed back you get instantly! Love it! I can see straight away the results i want and the quality is near production ready, for my needs anyway. :) There are some things not working yet: Plane emissions only show a glow, no light. Area lights work fine but show up as a point in volumetric areas. Some issues with transparency. Image with an alpha will show a dark shadow. Even when the alpha is not connected via nodes. ...

Happy new year all, wherever you are stay safe. Other then the title and logo this was all done in Blender. Full over at deviantart

Getting more closer to using only Blender to complete compositions. This was around 90% blender. Blurs and lights were done with photoshop. I can do DOF in blender but its not always as good. Lights can also be done with glare, blurs and bightness nodes and will try to use them next. Based on the amazing concept art of Edouard Caplain. Artstation profile edouardcaplain.artstation.com/ This scene never made it to the game.  Full DL over at Deviantart

Mini comic. Large over at deviantart

Where else but Chloe's truck. Hope you all recovered ;) 1440p Deviantart

Just another what could have happen alt universe/time. Full over at Deviantart

Max's B-day and she is celebrating turning 21 already. Full dl from Deviantart

Threw this together quickly

Another comic. Rendered in Blender ( likeing it so far) touched up in Photoshop. Can view and grab over at deviantart http://mike-kossi.deviantart.com/art/After-Chloe-Life-is-Strange-comic-632189625

Another mini comic. Based of a few words spoken between Jefferson and Max. Full over at http://mike-kossi.deviantart.com/

Wow a year already.. It seems like yesterday that you were guiding the shy, awkward Max around Arcadia Bay  Some screens here

Some more widescreen shots of Life is Strange Ep2 4680 x 2005 21:9 Can grab all here