Progress - w2 / August

Hey guys,

so another animation challenge is behind us, gonna do a small write up. I think I started off pretty strong with the first day, I really liked how the animation turned out but I am still struggling with eevee (the alternative renderer I use in these challenges to be able to render it in time).

I think my I issue is that I only ever use eevee during these challenges, therefore I always have just a few hours to figure things out. I am thinking about doing a small animation in eevee outside of these challenges to have time to do everything properly, do some research and finally learn it better.

The second day I was completely wiped, I did a bit too much first day and just had no gas. Also the setup turned out somewhat challenging and I spent a lot of time with the boat etc. In the end I was barely able to put together a loop and call it day.

Fortunately day 3 was somewhat simple. It was still a bunch of work but it was stuff I am comfortable with so it was just a question of pulling it off. The hardest part this time was the render, where I ran into a bunch of issues and had to do like 4 additional renders fixing various stuff.

Overall I am pretty happy with the challenge, I think for this one it once again makes sense to return to it to polish it, re-render in cycles (or even again in eevee but with better setup) add some money shots and make a small movie out of it.

Also this time around MMJ3D who usually does sound for me offered to do the sound in time for each release, which was pretty great. Also impressive, because while I had 24 hours he had way less, usually under 12 to pull it off.

I am gonna take it easy for a week or so now, gonna finish up the Velma movie and finally try to figure out my next big project.