Ancient Valley (animation)

[Mor]

Upgraded to deep +animation and here comes the very first animation by me. I used my NWDA contest scene.

720x405, detail 0.65, AA 4, Oshyan's fill lights, atmo samples 18
640 frames and rendertime 7-10min per frame.

http://vimeo.com/25395445

Comments and critics appreciated.

[Tangled-Universe]

Will look at it in more detail when I'm home, but at first glance it looks pretty cool!
The first thing I thought when seeing Vimeo buffering was "oh I so hope these clouds move/boil" but they didn't.
Perhaps that's a nice thing to add
I liked the camera animation, did you do that in TG2 only?

Cheers,
Martin

[Henry Blewer]

Nice work with this. I was a bit concerned when I saw the clouds, but it made a nice 'entrance' into the following part of the anim.

[Viktim]

Pretty damn impressive!

[Mor]

Thanks!

I thought about making the clouds moving/boiling, but left them intact, since the camera flies through them so quickly.  But yes that could be nice thing to add. Flying through the forest is another thing I might change a bit, since it is maybe a little too fast. The camera animation is TG2 only.

[Tangled-Universe]

Thanks for the info Mor
I'd really like to encourage you to add just a little bit of movement/boiling of the clouds.
What works nicely is to animate the warp of the density fractal over time with a ~0.5 difference/change.
A slight move to the right/left would just give enough sense of motion.

Would you like to tell something about your rendermachine specs?
7-10/frame for 720x405 is not bad

Cheers,
Martin

[Mor]

My rendermachine is Core i7 2600 / 8 GB

I'll try adding a little warp and movement to the clouds.

[freelancah]

Not bad at all! It felt a little bit fast but other than that it was cool!

[ra]

Awesome work!

[inkydigit]

very good, a touch too fast, maybe, but exhilarating all the same!

[miqtidar]

Nice work man

[Mor]

Thanks! I'm currently setting up second version of this, which it will be slower with moving clouds. I will also make little changes to the camera path in the forest so that the camera won't hit every tree in that forest anymore

[Mor]

New version is ready. The clouds are now animated and length increased from 640 frames to 1200 frames. I also increased detail from 0.65 to 0.7. Rendertime was about 6.5 days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0XyFf0UzjE

I'm total noob with video settings so what would be best video format to use?
It seems youtube packed the video quite a lot, so I will upload this to my vimeo account too.

[Henry Blewer]

I like this version better. YouTube did make a mess of it.

I used the QuickTime H.264 codec and Blender 2.49b to animate the image sequence on my video. YouTube was much nicer to my upload.

[Mor]

Here's vimeo link:

http://vimeo.com/25857806