Snowfall + v.4

dandelO · June 01, 2011, 08:34:20 PM

Nothing spectacular. Just thought I'd re-render my first ever TG2 animation at higher quality and resolution settings, since the introduction of 'ray traced atmosphere'.

Can't remember what I called the original thread so I'll just open a new one now.

I saved half the time rendering each frame from the older TG release it was originally rendered on, so I've more than doubled the frames and added a half-hearted melting effect at the end. Also now at 768x480px instead of 480x270px. The old one is still my most watched video on Youtube for some reason, probably just because it's been up for the longest time.

I don't particularly like this new one, I could do much better if I started from scratch on a scene like this these days(and I just might, as much of this seems quite infantile now looking back on the .tgd), but it was nice to see how far the renderer has come along since the new features to RTA were added etc.

So, some 60-odd hours of my life re-wasted on this, if not more!

Next up, something completely different. And better, I should add again.

Cheers for looking!

http://vimeo.com/24541389

dandelO · June 01, 2011, 11:07:55 PM

+ Audio.

Cheers!

Henry Blewer · June 02, 2011, 12:56:12 AM

I like this. It's not your usual superb work, but it is interesting. The music fits this well.

dandelO · June 02, 2011, 07:32:51 PM

I don't really like it much but cheers, Henry!

Got an entirely new one going from scratch(as I said I might, and the 'something completely different' will just have to wait

), frame 95 of 480 of this is done so far. I figure it'll be only about 16 hours to render in total this time, don't you just love optimizing?

Should be ready tomorrow...

choronr · June 02, 2011, 11:51:40 PM

Well, I like it. Just imagining if I were able to do this kind of thing I'd be shickled titless. Very good work Martin, looking forward to the next.

dandelO · June 03, 2011, 10:13:55 AM

Done, just comping and uploading it now. It was only a 12 hours exactly render this time, so my estimate was a bit much. Post back later...

dandelO · June 03, 2011, 05:09:52 PM

https://sites.google.com/site/d4nd310/animations-1

Mention this to me, watch the weather change.

Tangled-Universe · June 03, 2011, 05:12:47 PM

I still find this a pretty neat animation.
One minor crit for me would be that the transition (at around 7 sec.) in snow build up is too fast.
Especially because the rest of the animation nothing really significant is changing, visually.

dandelO · June 03, 2011, 05:14:06 PM

Kind of like God has just taken a giant seagull's dump on a hill.

The snow piling is much nicer, I think. Not so raggedy.

Brand new version from scratch, v1 and v2 were completely different files but I'll just post to this thread for continuation.

Cheers!

* Music is 'Disposition' by Tool.

dandelO · June 03, 2011, 05:17:26 PM

I know what you mean, Martin.
If it were to be forward and reversed like the old v.1, which shows how the intersection shift is working back and forward, you'd see a significant change in depth and piling but it is quite a fast transition from no coverage to complete again, yes. :/

dandelO · June 04, 2011, 10:06:30 AM

Quote from: Tangled-Universe on June 03, 2011, 05:12:47 PM
One minor crit for me would be that the transition (at around 7 sec.) in snow build up is too fast.

Restarted 240 frames of this to really draw out the build up a bit more.
As it was in v.3, the coverage of snow layer to '0.5' was happening by frame 60. Now I've set it to have that amount of coverage by frame 150, which should space it out a fair bit and create a much smoother transition.

5-6 hours I expect, this is the minimum amount of frames I can re-render to meet the coverage of '1' at frame 240 without rewriting any of the following frames.

dandelO · June 05, 2011, 03:15:43 PM

A final mess around with this scene. V.4 with a less abrupt build up from zero coverage.

Total coverage still ranges from '0' to '2' in the snow surface layer, just drew it out a bit.

https://sites.google.com/site/d4nd310/animations-1

choronr · June 05, 2011, 04:11:26 PM

That is very well done Martin. Someday I must learn how to do this.

Henry Blewer · June 05, 2011, 08:03:58 PM

Cool. Did you try the wind driven snow? It's hard to tell from the codec compression. This is really looking good.

dandelO · July 16, 2011, 10:20:33 PM

Got a couple of versions of this to upload that Neon22 has kindly rendered for me a wee while ago. I haven't forgotten about them, and I do appreciate the time you've spent on my old drivel.

I'll upload them tomorrow, I was going to re-download them just now to this computer for upload but the links appear to have expired. Updates on the way...