Mike's Stuff

Chloe out and about while masked :)  A longer version of a piece i did a while ago. Just out a of 3 day lock down in our town. Wearing a mask for another week when going out.  Good news im double jabbed!  Other parts of Australia doing it tough tho Made in Blender. Youtube link

Sean, Lyla, Daniel and Chris trick or treating :)

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  

Another camera pass showing the procedural rain texture in Blender Eeevee.

Revisiting an old cycles render i did a while back and trying it in eevee.  Issues encountered:  Room light leaks.  Window glass shader blocking similar objects behind.  Lots of object needed blend mode change to Alpha clip.  I miss hiding lights from camera option in cycles :)

Animation didn't take too long surprisingly..  Youtube link https://youtu.be/A-u4OsMRXK0 Still getting used to the dope and graph editors in Blender. Love the cycles and noise modifiers.   Particle system used for leaves and grass and butterfly.  Cloth sim for flag.  Some volumetric for fog effects.  Sounds from free web sites.  VO from the game.

I can recall a few all nighters + most of the morning gaming with friends. :) Scene was practically all setup in Farewell.. just added Max and Chloe and changed to night with tv showing a game. Link over at deviantart

This started off as a water shader test for the pool.. i got a little carried away. :) This was all done in Blender including the color correction, glows and glares for the lights using compositor. Some touch ups and final adjustments in Photoshop. Changed the pool noodles to emission when i accidentally left the node wrangler on the texture and rendered, it looked cool :) Water was a plane with the ocean modifer to give it some small waves. Added noise texture and used a displacement/bump to add further detail to the water ripples. The wavy water reflections you see on the models are actually lamps with texture noise.. blender can do refelection/refraction but it was coming out weak (and taking a long time to render) and i wanted a stronger effect. The issue now was the lamps are now reflecting on the water in the render. Solved this by placing the lamps in another layer and using masks/exclude. So water was rendered clean in one layer, characters and items with the refl...

There are three otters in the water! Large version can be grabbed from Deviantart All done in blender with touch ups and added glint/glows in photoshop. This was very demanding on my pc! Volumetric clouds over the pool was insane to render. Used a noise generator to "punch holes" through the volume and adjusted until it looked like wisps of steam. Ugh just previewing it was crazy. The rest was ok. Normal water shader didn't look like the game pool scene, too realistic. So played around and adjusted several options until it looked more like the game and was allowing the pool lights to shine through. Added a texture mask using texture painter mode in blender for the water drop effects on the girls adjusted glossy for drops, skin and hair. This has a better look then particle water drops.. as they tended to be more black then shinly/glossy. Yes its realistic but black spots don't look to nice. Final composite was color corrected to a bluish tint, glare n...

All the bed rooms in LiS and BTS have such a nice feel and design. Each one reflects their owners well. Rachels room in the night was so well done. Extracted the room, textured and did a quick test render to see how the lights came out. Added some stuffed friends :) Full over at Deviantart

Happy Halloween! Not very big here, did go trick or treating a few times.. mainly as a cover to egg some houses. Spent a lot of time with rpg's tho :) Full over at Deviantart

Happy new year all. Have a blast and stay safe. UHD size here

First time mucking around with Blender, its quite nice but need to learn a lot of key commands! Couldn't help myself with the title :) I really hope the live action is good, but have some reservations like how will they handle the choices Max needs to make? I'm assuming they will stick to a linear story arc. Can only hope its as good a Stranger Things. Full size here