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Deep Forest Route - Final Environment
🕑 Added 2020-12-07 13:53:24 +0000 UTCHere's a final look at the new environment for the next Encounter episode! This is something I've sidelined throughout the last 2 months while making the recent mini animations. Needless to say this has taken quite some time, as it's supposed to be an interactive environment, rather than just a stage you could only see from one angle. I've started blocking this out back in October, layouting the environment with some basic planes and cliffs I've originally made for the first Encounter animation. The trees are actually game assets that I've souped up with custom displacement and enhanced normal maps. This was necessary to save up on render time, as I was intending to make a lush forest environment with a couple hundred trees that reaches far into the distance. The wind simulation was taken into account right from the start, which is why I've made a small variety of rigs for the trees that were later instanced to save up on render time.
In terms of rendering this is using a hybrid approach, with the foreground and characters still being rendered with the old rasterizer I've been using for most animation, while the background is rendered using Redshift and its RTX-accelerated path tracing. One frame at 4k takes roughly 8 minutes to render on my current RTX 2070, but I'm finally expecting a 3090 to arrive this week, which should cut down the render time just enough to make an animation of this quality feasable.
As a proof of concept I've already rendered out a small sequence here: Link
With the environment now finalized, animating will soon begin! (:
Comments
boosterboo1
Also in Zoe noms u 1 how did the first victim went missing in the woods I hope they got jumpscares and it reminds of the scary movie called Friday the 13th starring Jason voorhees I like that movie
boosterboo1
I see... ok
CakeInferno
Always tough to say! The first Encounter was supposed to be done in 5 months, but took a total of 8. Since the second episode won't be as long I'm aiming for May whatsoever. Including voice acting definitely increased the production time a fair bit, as animating lips has to be done on a frame-by-frame basis.
CakeInferno
Always tough to say! The first Encounter was supposed to be done in 5 months, but took a total of 8. Since the second episode won't be as long I'm aiming for May whatsoever. Including voice acting definitely increased the production time a fair bit, as animating lips has to be done on a frame-by-frame basis.
boosterboo1
whatβs the release date for the animation cakeinferno?
Chaos Feed
Eta for release date?
boosterboo1
Happy new year cakeinferno ππ
boosterboo1
When it will be released? will it be on mega for free?
VitAnyaNaked
Yes, must say that this environment looks pretty impressive, and of course I'm glad that you finally got to work on it and finally finished it)
Mircea Kitsune
So gorgeous ^.^ I'm actually working on something similar with a winter scene now... except of course at barely a quarter of this quality level. In part due to my ambition to have every texture and geometry procedurally generated... my dream to get an environment like this to build itself will be the end of me xD
boosterboo1
Itβs awesome π
Michael Lee Vogel
Such an awesome looking forest for the environment cake. Words just can't describe how excited I am for this.
GizmoChinasa
can't wait for another close encounter with Zoe's uvula
CakeInferno
Thanks mate! I hadn't played the game myself, but looked up the environment and it certainly strikes a pretty similar vibe, haha! The main inspiration visually were actually some of the forest environments from The Last of Us. I always wanted to do something a little more lush and green since it always puts me into a bit of a cozy mood. Here's hoping the animation will have the same effect on the viewer!
Offskee
God damn this gives me some straight up Dragon age inquisition vibes of like the storm coast, and I still think thats one of the best looking game environments. Like it feels like this was ripped right out of the game, Bravo.
CakeInferno
Thanks so much mate! Super excited to really get going with this! (:
CakeInferno
*Sigh*
Neo
This just can't be described, it's just breathtaking and amazing β₯
Vampire king
8 min for 1 frame? The fuck
