{SHORT REPORTS} Sif Animation - August 22, 2024

Finally found the energy to start a series of reports on Sif Animation. Let's go!

Made the first part of the animation where I played with different chips 3d. In particular, studied the process of creating traces and physics of destruction of objects. Sketched our small Scandinavian town worthy of future warriors Valhalla.

Thought initially to make the environment of the first scene 1 in 1 as in GoW but realized that I would spend extra time on it and sketched a rough version of what I had at hand. In general, in the first scene I was able to fit the basic plot premise, which will determine most of the motivation of SIF and indicate approximately who our hero. The second part of the animation will take place entirely in a scene that is already ready and those who have played GoW know what that scene is. This will be a room SIF 1 in 1 as in the game. All the remaining elements of animation will take place in it until the finale. The only thing I've added to it is a small column that SIF will tear to shreds. So.

 In the first part we are led to the house where our hero in theory should taste the honey Scandinavian hospitality of the gods.

But there's a lot of tension between its occupants and the air is full of tension. The first thing that will greet us upon entering the house is the thunder god's hammer.

He himself will be in animation in the form of one big belly. Actually after this scuffle we will get acquainted with the main hostess who will not be very happy with us and in her haughty look will be read contempt and unwillingness to spend time on us and her main purpose will be solitude with a pint of good ale.

And honestly it would have been better if upon entering the house the main character didn't dodge Thor hammer and died ending the animation there. Why? Because after that scene the animation elements started where you had to simulate the physics of hair. It took me a day.

P.s Now I have already made a more presentable version that will go in render and this is the one that I did not accept but for this post left as a presentation. The clothes will be different this is more open version for the second scene. I forgot to switch to the other one when I was rendering the preliminary rendering.

Although the plan was to start rendering the first scene today having done all the physics and facial animation. But the plans fell apart when I started working on the hair. I thought I had found the key to her hair and perfectly set up and prepared everything for it. But when I animated the first scene and started the second scene I realized that I had overclocked and decided to go back to the first scene to finish it completely and start rendering I started the process of creating the physics of clothes, hair. And when I got to the hair. Oh, man. That hair warmed me from the tips of my toes to the top of my head the most. Especially when it turned my ass into an overactive volcano. For myself I noticed that the most tedious thing for me is working with physics, as it is often just not predictable but takes too much time. So I will now turn more to my hands I think it will be much faster. Also because of the peculiarity of her hair they are beautiful in visual terms, but in terms of course animation damn sadist came up with the idea to make them so. I decided to try to change it a little bit in the second scene, I don't know if it will work. Namely to take them off the shoulder and hang them behind the character. This will simplify a lot I think because just at the joints where there are hands and turns of the body is a lot of problems and artifacts. But it's not a sure thing that this idea will work, but it's worth a try as this hair is the most dangerous enemy for my nerve cells. In every animation there is one aspect that do not want to give me in and in this animation I found this enemy at once.
I think Tomorrow I'll finish this scene completely and put it on render and go to the main scene. There we have a drunken mess with a fight. That's it for now. I apologize for not being very active in terms of posts at the beginning and middle of the month. But now I'll definitely be picking up the pace in terms of reporting. Thanks for your attention everyone, see you in the traditional status update post at the end of the month. Good luck to everyone and lots of health, it will come in handy to withstand the pressure of the golden-haired goddess.