A technical and artistic showcase, focused on highly stylized rendering and animation.
The goals of the project are to push Blender in the production of 2D/3D animation, using the ongoing developments on Geometry Nodes, Grease Pencil and Cycles.
Production Logs
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Production Log #62
- July 29th, 2024
This week I mainly worked on the identity for Blender Conference 2024, so there was only little GOLD work being done. I received the coral reef breakdown from Hjalti and added lights and a compositing buildup to present a simplified view on how the set and shots are constructed.
Production Log #61
- July 22nd, 2024
This week more GP animation happened. We are almost done with all the shots that get this extra treatment.
My work this week was mostly focused on rendering out all the remaining shots in high/final quality, error fixes, last minute lighting tweaks and compositing in the 2D paint effects from Vivien and Rik.
Production Log #60
- July 15th, 2024
This week I mostly did handpainted Grease Pencil animation to add smudge and smear effects over fast movements and some more glow effects for Mikassa's lightbody form in the Abyss.
Besides wrapping up the golden light trail FX and some minor work on the first breakdown shots that we are making now I spent a lot of time this week on reviewing patches for Blender and also preparing some demo files for the upcoming release.
I worked on compositing of pretty much the entire reel: Adding paintover renders from Vivien and Rik in shots that had a paintover treatment, doing brightness tweaks to make Mikassa more readable and compositing the motion trails in 250_whale and 260_return in.
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