Russell Tuller
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Patron Exclusive 3D Animation {April 2022}
🕑 Added 2022-04-06 02:29:08 +0000 UTCComputer Is Taking awhile to Render all the Frames for this Animation so its gonna be a bit late. Please stand by. ^_^
UPDATE 4/5/2022 11:31PM- Video is up!
Haven't done an Animation in awhile and wanted to try out some new things as per the norm when I do these animation experiments!
I spent the last few days doing a quick dive into the Blender Video Editor, turned out being a lot easier to use then I thought! I may do some edits to this animation later this month using blender to lengthen certain key parts of the animation.
I can splice together multiple video strips now too using Blender which opens the door for longer sequences and gives me the ability to render out animations from DAZ Studio as a collection of images, DAZ always seems to crash when rendering stuff out as a movie... Actually happened the first time I tried rendering out this video, over an hr of wait time wasted >.>
I wanted to try to incorporate a much more complicated natural scene into this one as well as use strand based hair in the animation. I think the creative solution I used for the fur worked decently, there is unfortunately no way to actually animate the growth of the Fur as traditionally seen in movies using DAZ at least currently, and to my knowledge. I think it looks better than the Texture map approach I took in the past at least.
The downside to rendering out this complicated scene were the Render Times, its pretty much to the point of being unpractical. This took nearly 3 hrs for DAZ to render out and its a little under 230 frames. Visual quality was also lost, I had to set the Resolution so low (1280x720) to cut render times. Also, Restricted the number of Iterations per frame too to keep the render time under 1 min a frame. This will more than likely improve drastically once I ever get my hands on a better graphics card (Still can't find one to buy anywhere under a grand>.>) The NVIDIA RTX 2060 I currently have is just not cutting it, its probably nearing the end of its graphics card life as well.
The plus side to the Blender advancement is that I can render out the Animation in parts like 230 frames, then edit them while the next 230 render out, and then splice them together, for a faster workflow, which I am actually pretty excited about! Well that, and the prospects of adding effects and Sound to the Animations, there are so many opportunities for the future now! ^o^
<3 Blender So Much!
Regardless, I hope you all enjoy this animation despite all its flaws. I've always enjoyed first person TF animations and I hope you enjoy this fellow trying on his "New Shoes" just as much. ;P
