"If I Were You"
Published
Watch here on YouTube.
Tooling
- Blender
- Ardour
- sforzando from Plogue and the
Upright Piano, Knight
instrument from VCSL Keys
- sforzando from Plogue and the
- Kdenlive
Notes
This demanded a lot more knowledge of Blender! I was too scared to make a real character, but this idea was adapted from an animation I wanted to make that did have a character. I want to build on that idea someday, it's a bit different from how it manifested here. What's with those keyholes…?
There were lots of rendering issues with this, including crashes and misbehaving geo nodes simulations for the smoke. I forgot to enable and disable certain objects before rendering some of the 3 scenes, which was a pain. You can see that there's no moulding in the reflection. That was a mistake!
I made this using EEVEE, but the scenes with the figure still took 13-20 seconds per frame. Might have to do with the 2 million polygons it's made of. Oops! I wanted it to be a volume instead, but volumes don't show up in reflections in EEVEE…
I was also scared of scoring this. I didn't compose anything, instead I noodled in vague time to the events. I did some light editing of what I played in Ardour, and slightly retimed a few notes to be more in-sync. Getting video into Ardour was a pain, but that's what I get for using my distro's version!
I've got negative feelings about how much of a nothing-burger this animation is. I want the next thing I make to be written. And have a character. We'll see!