Falling Glowing Balls

This is more experimental video. I will probably start to make more of these to learn to use Blender. I have one other in works. These won’t be too long because rendering takes such a long time. This one took about 42 hours to render. Next one is shorter but it will take about 100 hours because I use Cycles engine for it. For this I used Eevee.

Music is done with Waldorf Pulse 2 and Arturia Pigments 2. Took some time to get Pulse 2 to work with filter type changes without noises. I originally changed filter type too close to next note. That caused noise. Next time I know not to do that. I also learned weird feature of Cubase. You have to save your settings as preset in device panel if you want to have your settings when you open the project next time. Cubase seem to load the preset you selected last instead of settings you had when you saved the project. I don’t know if there is way to change it.

Jack of All Trades - Master of None

Short video telling why I had so long break and why videos will take so long to publish. I have listened lately two podcasts which talked about how being jack of all trades can be good thing in the end. Book about that was released lately. Here I tell how hard it could be if you want to get something done. Video was heavily inspired by Death Grips' I've Seen Footage. I wrote little about that video in other post.

Video is made out of 1262 stills I shot during few nights and short Blender animation test. I try to make fully animated videos next year. This was sneak peak to those videos if they ever get made.

What I have been doing lately

It has been a while since I made content to internet. I kind of burned out with this. I decided to take little break when studying for AWS certificate. Then other thing demanded my attention and it was hard to get back on track. For videos I wanted to reinvent the channel but had not good idea what to do. Until this week. I knew I wanted to try 3d animation again. Blender 2.8 was released with Eevee renderer which is way faster than Cycles. Previous attempts ended when I realized how much time rendering takes.

I bought CGBoost’s Blender 2.8 Launch Pad course. Picture above is from my course project. It contains some course’s objects but I think it is ok because I am talking about the course. Course is for beginners. I am not beginner. I felt it would be good idea to start from beginning, get my work flow correct and learn all basic tricks. For that course has been excellent. I have learned better ways to do things I struggled earlier attempts on 3D animation. Course has shown how easy it is to make good looking low poly 3D animation.

I have not completed the course yet. So had I have been happy and wanting sequel course which goes more advanced techniques and topics. After I have completed this course I can get to new videos and reinventing the channel. I can’t promise when next video will be released or even if it is 3D animation.

One reason why it has been so hard to get back on track is I have changed tools I use making videos. I made videos how I wanted to change to DAW which works with MPE. That DAW is Cubase. Cubase was on sale earlier this year. I took change with it and upgraded to full version soon after when upgrades were on sale. So Blender is not the only software I need to learn to use. DaVinci Resolve also got new version with new functionality.

You don’t need to wait next post this long. I will start to list my favorite music earlier this year. There is less than three months this year to go. So I should have pretty good idea what will be my favorite music this year. I expect album to come to that list but albums of so far I already know.