animajikgraphics posted at 2:08PM Wed, 16 September 2020 - #4399610

Very nice work, Luxeon! I really like the "flower-like" plants. Very alien-esq looking.

-AniMajik

Thank you, my friend. Yes, I plan to hopefully produce a series of short videos based on "alien plants". I wanted to get this one done as quickly as possible because it was just a side project, so the best way to do that was to render everything with Eevee. Ended up taking a little longer than we thought because Blender 2.9 came out just as I had finished the animation and started rendering. A friend of mine was letting me use his machine with an RTX 2080ti and some big hardware specs to render frames. I was using an RTX 2070. So we decided to re-render all the frames with the butterfly once 2.9 was released because of the object motion blur feature it provided. Having object motion blur brings Eevee renders even closer to Cycles' quality. The problems came when it started crashing after ever 300 or so frames. So it took about 5 days before this project could be finished, because of the crashes. Still, it was worth the headaches because this was rendered at 2k resolution, 60FPS. 5 seconds of video was 300 frames. So as you could imagine, we needed to keep the render time per frame very low while keeping quality as high as possible.

Still, I'm a little disappointed in the editing. Editing only took a few hours, but now I see that there was at least two major errors with the edit, and Youtube won't allow us to replace the video without deleting this one. So it has to stay in I guess.

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