I made changes lol
Not because I wanted to, but because Blender 5.0 did something that made the alpha channels screwy. But it's done! Cinta has her pretty sword in the forest glittering with magic :3
Sila's was more dynamic but I really like this 💜
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I don't want to make any more changes o.o
Not ready for the final render; I'm going back to full resolution in Cycles which takes 10-12 minutes/frame to render. 720 frames x 12 minutes = 6 days. I need to replace my iPad first. I miss ProCreate ;-;
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Discovery: my new puter doesn't choke and die when I try to render with EEVEE :D
I hid the environment bc even EEVEE takes a few minutes to render and I wanted to get a test out ASAP. Still got work to do, but it'll go by faster now :3
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Yet! More! Subtle differences! *celebratory kazoo noises*
Anyway I want to keep poking around in the shader network for the ribbons so I can get shorter visible segments. Some of them are getting way longer than I want. Or overlapping. Or both.
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Subtle differences are once again subtle! And I once again had more changes I wanted to make so those are rendering out now :P
Depending on how those turn out, though, I think I'm done tweaking it? Idk we'll see
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More subtle differences! But I'm happy with the progress, we've come such a long way :')
Still more changes I want to make—I think I figured out a better way to animate the trees blowing in the wind—so not quite done yet!
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Back to making progress on this baby! Tweaked the magic ribbons and grass distribution, added camera movement, and now I'm working on making those vines around the sword look how I want them to :3
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New 'puter get :3
Render time reduced to 50 minutes, 9 seconds, and some change C:
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To prep for the imminent arrival of my new 'puter (next payday + shipping), I rendered out Cinta's sword at full size and the default 4096 samples.
Y'all.
It took over eight and a half hours.
Can't wait to see how fast the new machine does it! :D
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PERFECT!
Now I just need a computer that won't need to run 24 hours a day for over a week to render this at a decent resolution :P
Friday I find out if I can finance my new computer or if I have to wait until I can pay 100% out of pocket!
SOONish 👀
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Almost done! One more test render, and unless something needs fixing, this should be the last scene tweak I can do with this computer. Those results will be up on Wednesday :)
The rest will have to wait til I get my new computer. Hopefully soon 🤞🏼
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There we go, that's much better than the other night. Only ten seconds this time, but it showed me some more tweaks I want to make!
Part of me wants to wait to get my new computer before I finish this. The rest of me isn't that patient...
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I done goofed and set the maximum render time per frame as 2.5 seconds instead of minutes, and, uh, it's bad. Like, yikes bad 😬 I won't subject y'all to that.
The good news is, I think I fixed the rocks-clipping-through-trees problem! :D
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Invisible progress! lol
I doubled the number of Break rock shapes and adjusted the animation so they hopefully clip through fewer trees. I can't really test that without rendering all 720 frames out, on account of my ancient computer is so old :P
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Oof, the video render turned out super...uh, bad. That's probably on me for adding more things for Blender to render lol
Wednesday's update won't have video. We're in a severe thunderstorm with hail so I might lose power! :) (I 💜 thunderstorms, legit)
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Glitter's a little twitchier than I want it to be, but I've made adjustments to it (plus a few other things) that will be ready to go on Friday! :)
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So some of the work I did on Saturday was Even More Glitter™ and it looks more like static than, ya know, glitter, so I've tried to fix that and will be re-rendering. Also some other changes that y'all will see on Wednesday :D
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(╯°□°）╯✨🌈✨GLITTER✨🌈✨
Did a lot more work on this today, so I'll let that render out to be ready on Monday :)
Just a few more things to do, mostly refinement work, and then I'm done! :D :D :D
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IT WORKED!!! :D :D :D
Now to add the glitter sparkles >:3
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Progress! The transparency isn't animating how I want it to, but that's okay. I've poked a whole bunch of things while going "oooooh what does THIS button do?! :D" and I *think* I've got it figured out!
We'll find out together on Wednesday :)
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Animation test! Looking good so far, I've spent the last 7 and a half hours finagling with effects, and I'll be setting the whole 30 seconds to render as soon as I hit post :) Those will be ready on Monday assuming Blender doesn't crash!
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I DID IT!!!
Not done refining and I have more effects to add to really get the feel of Cinta's magic, but I got the hardest part down! :D
AND IT LOOKS SO GOOD I'M SO HAPPY AAAAAAA :D :D :D
*ahem* Ten second animation test coming tomorrow!
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THE TREES ARE DOING WHAT I WANT THEM TO HUZZALLELUJA :D :D :D
*Now* I actually try to make Cinta's magic lol
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Good news! I think I fixed the trees! Also did some other tweaks and changes that I wanted/needed to do before I forgot them. Plus one for fun ;)
New animation test will start rendering as soon as I hit post, it'll be ready Monday (barring crashes) :D
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The trees still aren't moving as much as I would like them to, but! I'm gonna not worry about it, and move on to Frankensteining several Blender tutorials into one thing to make a rough approximation of Cinta's magic :)
...also make the ivy less shiny
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Wind animation test on the trees done! It's too subtle for what I wanted, so I made some tweaks. Also to the grasses/flowers. Gonna render it, then when I'm happy with that I'll try to figure out how to make Cinta's magic around the sword :)
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Wind!
I did also do more work besides this but apparently I can't upload images and video at the same time over here. Guess y'all will just have to wait to see what changed :P
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Some compositing work to show tonight since the rest of it was me setting up the grasses and flowers for their wind animation :)
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Spot the difference!
Mostly I'm working on the wind animation rn but since that's invisible for the moment I also made some minor tweaks to get things to look a little better :)
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Hey did you know that if you want things to be random you have to actually use the thing that makes randomness happen? Who knew!
Also I think I figured out a huge chunk of work I have to do to animate wind :)
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