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.

Max and Chloe kissing in the new year. Revisited and older render and used Blender Eevee. For the most it worked very well.. fast to render and makes viewing a joy.   Issues i encountered using the beta 2.80 Render layers not all there.. really needed to separate the fireworks collection and have it render on a transparent background so i could apply effects separately. Animating bones/armitures slows down the general performance of the eevee viewport. Lamp light leaking through. Particle issues: Particle node not working, controlling age, lifetime etc of particles not working. Children particles wont take on parent attributes, ie color change Glare node in composite mode was causing white noise in several frames when animating. Anisotropic not working in principled node, at least i could not see an effect. Faked it.

I'm not much for animating stuff, prefer to do normal stills and will only move something to get a motion blur effect.. but the Butterflies where animated in order to get the swam effect and run along a path. So rendered out the animation and then composed in AE. First time using AE as well, didn't turn out exactly how i wanted but still ok'ish. Also added some sound.. I thought about animating Chloe and Max but i am not that patient. Hats off to all the animators out there!.

Started of as a particle test for the butterflies flying along in Blender. Added more stuff ;)

Wanted to get into that lighthouse..  Full over at Deviantart

Been trying to avoid any spoilers/info for Before the Storm. Forced myself to watch 1 min of the play though video and came up with this... :)  Full over at Deviantart

Was playing around making 3d clothing.. made some summer dresses which resulted in this :) Full size over at Deviantart

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

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