Colorful gemstones animation

Artwork Finished Projects
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A client asked me to create a jewellery animation to compete at the best level. During WIP, I was told to use Luxrender or Yafaray, but after several tests, I decided to stick with Cycles. Maybe it is because I love Cycles, or Cycles loves me. I will use other renderers in other projects.

The final animation is Full HD at 24 fps. Rendering took some days, but rendering times were really decent. I did not use the new denoiser, as with fur it severely underperformes.

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Final Animation on Youtube

Some more frames

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For gems I’d go with Luxrender. Spectral renderer with actual caustics would make it magical.

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Well, this animation is, despite the absence of some rather technically not so necessary artifacts (that, like I already said several times, will use someday for the sake of investigation, curiosity and overall fun I have creating 3D), a frank success across several platforms. So, well, l am proud of what Cycles allowed me to deliver, despite your saying… Cycles worked magic.