#dancing monster

[retrocgads]

UK 1985

[here-be-dragons-and-whatnot]

Forgot to upload it, but I was able to get a couple frames of my dynamic fur simulation out of Eevee. It will take more work (and a GPU) to get a more realistic result, but I love that it took maybe three hours tops to make this (and a good portion of that was wrangling a node-generated texture).

[here-be-dragons-and-whatnot]

I MADE IT BETTER

Lots of new stuff in this. I learned how to use the NLA editor to mix different animations, plus I used the video sequencer to add music. I even started adding new scenes, but Blender keeps crashing when I try to utilize them :<

[here-be-dragons-and-whatnot]

I asked Matt to design me a monster. He drew this and said, "Make it wiggle and rain shrimp." I like to think I met his artistic vision.

This features fur particles (not the dynamic kind), rigid bodies, and Eevee. Eevee definitely isn't as capable as Cycles, but it can render without crashing the laptop. It's nice to see my animations at full speed!

By the way, the material for the shrimp is entirely procedural. Behold my chaotic node tree:

[boobachu]

[saigobe]

“Wild nights are my glory!”

“Wild nights are my glory!”

My reason for being late today is a good one. I have been watching Yongary, a 1967 monster movie made in Korea. It was so bad I couldn’t tear myself away. I’ll give you some wonderful examples. The hero is summoned from the first night of his honeymoon to man a capsule into space. His woe begotten wife shows up in the control room where her father is in charge. She is wearing what I figured was…

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