Visual Arts

[Jassassino]

Great thread. Very jealous of Jassassino and your current Blender ability, I have just enough free time to stew and lament that I haven't learned Blender, but not enough time to learn Blender.

Cheers mate! I've actually now done with the whole main model, animated its movement, electric arc and the accompanying sandstorm. All that's left is to finish off the background actors and main character, render it and composite it all in one clip.

Making 3D anything in Adobe After Effects is a fucking nightmare, no matter how much RAM I shove into this gaming rig. I've been working on this commercial mock-up for a cyberpunk memory brokerage firm from the future, here's a screenshot:

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That fucking cube took me like three days of fighting a dozen crashes per session. The Japanese text changes and flashes rapidly and messing with even the text color has a chance of making After Effects go catatonic. And then the thing spins too, so AE is just barely chugging along as it renders any changes I make to it.

Fucking hell, AE can be an absolute bastard. I remember having to work with it a tonne in one of my old jobs and there would be times where you'd just be waiting for ten minutes for it to chug out a few frames. Nightmarish tool (but much more UI friendly than Blender lmao)

For my Only Forever animation/comic project I opted to start making a studio logo back in April for it.
It took 74 days (or 2½ months) to finish and it only amounts to 38 seconds, but i kinda liked how it came out.
I'll post an unlisted link below if anyone wants to watch it.

https://youtu.be/8GHxSjrmZ1Y?si=I_fbOpjwaphan6jh

The sound/track was made back in January 2024 using equipment I found at work.

Love it! Insane amount of work you've put into it really shows.