Mike's Stuff

Quick render test of some nice effects following @Berny_TheOven and @Sanctus_Art tutorials on youtube.  Loki dissolve and Thanos snap effect combined. Will tweak and mess around and see what else i can do with it. Rachel Chloe change effect

 Happy Bday Rachel Amber!

The girls having some fun. Youtube link Fun to setup in Blender. Using volume, translucency, particles, DoF, Cloth sim. Rendered in Eevee.  

Animated a static piece i did a while ago. Blender eevee takes a bit more effort to setup (light probes, shadows, reflections etc) But the speed is amazing 😀 Still have a few issues..  Lamps show up in reflections as round balls... need to reduce the radius a lot. Needs a invisible reflection option like in cycles. Again Lamps show us in volume areas, should be a hide from volume option. Messing with volume distance works in static shots but animated it wont.

 Short animation test render. Will prob do a longer one if the pc holds out 😛        

  Trying out Blender eevee interior render. Seems to come out a lot cleaner then cycles even with a lot of samples.    

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.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.. Wanted to add some snow to a older static image.. Should of been quick and easy. It was done in Blender Cycles, but that was overkill for a image not requiring ray tracing. So quickly converted to eevee, added the falling snow, then i got carried away and animated everything :) Its a little rushed so may revisit to smooth it out and render in better resolution :) Higher rez video below..

Forgot to post this yesterday... Happy Birthday to Rachel Amber. 🎉🎁 The girl that fascinated us in Life is Strange - Who was Rachel Amber we asked. Rachel was then revealed to us in her full glory in the wonderful Before the Storm Hair was done with particles and using the principled hair shader.. Not very good at styling hair :P

Steph the dungeon master..  Been watching Strange Things 3 and love the D&D references in the series. Nothing special about the render, particle hair used for the grass, flowers. Volumetric for the fog.

Not sure if its a rave or a punk rock show now.. Full version over at Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Pe6v_7HFE Camera switches all done in Blender using markers and assign to the camera as one seemless render. Importing animation into blender was pretty straight forward. Imported as an action which made it it easy to compose/reset/edit using the NLA. Bit of a learning curve to use but it made sense after a while and found it easy to split sections and edit to fit the camera switches. Volume lights and density in eevee are a life saver.. so fast. Glows are so nice.. but still need light/lens flares in eevee. These where added in After effects.

Just another quick WIP render. Encountering some issues with Blender Eevee but managing to work around them. Seems i cant copy a strength noise f-modifier from an emissive plane to an actual lamp emission  strength value. It copies all the values ok but is not the same noise pattern. Odd.

Just a alternative edit/change :) timey wimey stuff..

 * Updated to HD Animated the static render i did before in Blender Eevee. Volume fog animated, used a noise generator for the random flashing lights and neon sign. Added some camera shake and DoF changes as well as a zoom in. Dont really animate, but blender makes it very easy :) Youtube link

Messing around with the principled volume, lights and glows in Blender Eevee. Seeing the volume scatter in real time makes adusting and changing so much better. Render result in eevee is very nice and usable. In cycles not so much as there will be a LOT of noise even with denoise,

Wip test render.. trying out volume lighting in Blender eevee. This took seconds to render and the quality of the lights are amazing, in cycles my pc would take hours and if it did complete the render it would be a pixel mess even with denoising. I wish there was a ray visibility option like in cycles tho.

LiS Junkyard Queens. Yeh added Rachel cause feelings.. Happy easter.

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.

Happy birthday Chloe! Did this a while back by never posted. Based off a picture in the LiS game when time corrects itself.