"Heartbeat of the Gods" animation in 2.8

Hey everyone! Just finished a short animation in 2.8.
The visuals were made in just under a week with an extra week for audio. I know this movie could of had more polish, but I just wanted to finish something quick so I could finally have a short animation I could call done!
This is the first animation I’ve released online so I’m excited to see what you all think!

The rendering time took roughly 9 hours, but I had some unneeded settings on, such as motion blur and sub surface scattering.

I want to thank my sister for providing the vocals in the video.
I also apologize if the audio seems imbalanced, this is my first time working with audio.

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I used a displacement map on the landscape to create this effect. (sorry for the low quality gif)
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I then used a vertex group to control the influence of the displacement map.

i like it, congrats.

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Nice work ! The only feedback I can think off is to maybe tune down the Bloom, ideally it would be great to make it go from 0 to what is now once only the sky is in the frame. It could be done by overlaying two versions and fading the one without the bloom effect out, it’s more work but I think its the only solution as you can’t put keyframes on the render settings.

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@anon18318387 Thanks a lot my friend! :grin:

@Rafaelfcdk Thanks! I was planning on keyframing the bloom throughout the film, but never did! Though I’ll be honest with myself, I think I enjoy bloom a bit too much! :laughing:

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