Happy Halloween, imgur. Here's an animation test for a quick instagram halloween greeting I did.

Oct 31, 2017 9:26 AM

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Happy Halloween [bad vibes]

This ended up too foggy/smokey/misty, when I wanted something like an endless stream of cloudy liquid dissipating on the ground. Also the body is too well defined.I thought it still looked cool, though, so I thought I'd share it with y'all.

deets for nerd: main workhorse was Blender (Cycles), simulation took about 20 minutes to bake, rendering at gif resolution about the same. Lighting was done with a hand drawn IBL map. Minor color grading and png seq->h264 video in AfterEffects and video->gif with ffmpeg.

fp edit: wow, my first fp <3 I love you guys.
A Bunch of folks mentioned this would fit in a video game. Gamedev is actually my "day job" (I'm still over a year from graduating, but you get my point) and this idea started as a concept for a game prototype.

Some people asked for the final result I actually ended up using. The actual final clip is on my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba5J1oMAP_C/

put the eyes a little inside, so some fog flows over them .. difinitely spooky :)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I still haven't taken the time to get used to blender. Used to 3ds max and barely maya controls. So much cheaper to use blender.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

well it's OC so have your upvote!

8 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 0

Hell of a case of the Farts.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

This guy stabbed Elend at the Well of Ascension

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You could try making the eyes a transparent volumetric emitting light instead of a mesh?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I’m afraid this is 2 spooky 4 me

8 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

Very cool!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wish you could post a hi-res version of this. It's nicely done.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well shammalammadingdong to you too

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That looks like a character in a sci-fi/fantasy movie I would watch.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

v

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 2

What is Leo actually saying here?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But of course you can, of course you can.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This would be a toon I'd be looking to unlock on a "character select" screen...

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yo, do less wind and more gravity, should clean up the smoke trails.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Add a mod that lower the rate of fall with distance from center.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We get it. You vape.

8 years ago | Likes 660 Dislikes 4

This comment is reserved for those who thought the exact same thing..

8 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

We get it. You're vape. (FTFY)

8 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

As a man who strives for accuracy, you have shamed me.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You've made less of a ghost and more of a Genesis robot about to go critical.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I didn’t understand a single word of the description but I want to try my hand at it. What do I need?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

For most of it, nothing but Blender from https://www.blender.org/ some time learning it and a bunch of playing around :)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thanks!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I like the colours!

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

2spoopy for me

8 years ago | Likes 172 Dislikes 4

Woah spook

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*4

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

3spoopy5me

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

make the smoke black, the eyes red and deeper in the sockets it would look like the "thing" that keeps showing up in my dreams btw good work

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Points for deets.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Upvoted for nerdinfo

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Upvoted for saying what I was going to.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I have a lot of respect for people who can use those tools.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

The biggest hurdle for me was understanding the names for all the buttons. Like unless you look something up ...(1

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Post-Divide RGB by Alpha and Final Pass Denisity doesnt mean anything on its own or even in context . Or Lambert 1 whos actually a scientist

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But also a base shader for Maya, but not 3Ds Max even though they're both made by Autodesk. Go figure. (3

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hit a nail with a hammer once.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well done!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Greetings fellow Blender user!

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Hello! I just today had to explain to someone how I actually prefer Blender over C4D & 3ds max for most projects. Such an awesome package.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

99% of the capability at $3495 less!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

and super-awesome python scripting making *EVERYTHING* customizable <3

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

20 minute render, that's actually pretty fast considering.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's that GPU rendering ,baby <3

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh I'm aware. Just been a long time since I rendered anything remotely HD in blender.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To be fair, I also like to tweak my sampling settings with single frame renders before running a whole animation. (1/?)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This has 0 bounces and samples in anything that isn't volume, super low multisampling and highly tweaked noise reduction (2/2).

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