Where I put my online stuff…..
I re-rigged the little Sasquatch again and tried another walk cycle – this one a little different as it uses a “cycle with offset” modifier to continue the stride throughout the animation. I had to use a little trickery in the last part to restart the walk cycle at a different location…
This one was rendered in Blender 2.8 alpha (with eevee).
I imported the depth of field test into Blender 2.8 and messed with some effects and lighting… The depth of field is now animated to simulate auto-focus trying to work, volumetric fog has been added to the scene, and some camera shake t o simulate a hand held camera (a noise modifier added to some rotation curves). I also rendered using a “speed modifier” to the frames to turn the 600 animated frames into a 750 frame .mp4.
Frame render time in 720p was about 20 minutes.
More animation/walk cycle practice – with a depth-of-field twist thrown in for good measure. Interesting look…
I’ve been messing around in Blender 2.8 (still in alpha release, beta is expected in a couple of weeks) and build this little scene to try out the render speed. The 1000 frames needed for this animation rendered out about 30 minutes – only a few seconds per frame! This will be a game changer…
There are lots of little things to figure out but what a start!
Just a quick image render for something to do…
Well, not quite. But not usual…
This is actually an “OpenGL” render of just the armatures – the “bones” without the models attached. In this case, a person and a car…
To speed things up, I usually render with two instances of Blender – one using the GPU and one using the CPU. However, sometimes something doesn’t work right – in this case, the CPU render was handling the texture a bit differently – check out the face and palms of the hands flashing off and on (on is the GPU, off is the CPU)…
Not much movement in this one, just a bit of swaying back and forth and a couple of blinks…
I’ve been working on rigging models and some real basic animation (practice, practice!) and this is my first attempt at a walk cycle on this model. It’s a little rough and the gait is kind of weird, but…