Challenge #902 "Bad Day" (02/10/20) Entries CLOSED

But There’s No Such Thing as Climate Change

Pure entry, Cycles render, 64 samples & compositor denoising in 2.90.1. Central composition, 1x1 aspect ratio. Used Sapling Tree Gen, one of Blender’s included Addons. I wanted volumetric fire on the trees, but couldn’t get it to work. Thing I did for this that I’ve never done in Blender before: pretty sure I’ve never used a hemispherical emission object with a procedural fire material, and getting a gradient fadeout where I wanted it was enough of a pain that I’m positive I’ve never done that.

I spent days trying to get volumetric fire on the trees to work (and to look like what I was going for, the California wildfires, although honestly I didn’t get that far) before settling for procedural emission materials.

NoSuchThingCC023.blend

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