Short animation: The Last Beer

zolo · November 23, 2020, 9:22am

A short animation I have made with my friend about a knight and his last pint of beer ever. Created in Blender 2.90 and rendered with Eevee.

This node setup is for the table material. Rest of the materials were following a similar pattern.

digitvisions · November 23, 2020, 9:31am

Brilliant idea. nicely animated.

fenchamazingly · November 23, 2020, 9:36am

Very nice animation. Keep up the good work!

Sauron · November 24, 2020, 11:24am

very good!

SidewaysUpJoe · November 25, 2020, 1:23am

Amusing, nice job.

anon55679826 · November 25, 2020, 4:11am

Haha , nice animation, and I enjoyed the story telling.

zolo · November 25, 2020, 7:27am

Thank you all kindly

arch111 · November 25, 2020, 3:16pm

Excellent! Great timing and animations of the environment. And funny too.

Ethan_Trimble · November 26, 2020, 6:22am

aw man that was great the slamming of the fists and the mug was A+ mate, great work!

zolo · November 26, 2020, 8:42am

Thanks guys. I must say though, even though materials, lighting and animations were very challenging, it was actually the sound we had most trouble with. Two complete amateurs trying to create and synchronize sounds so they are just a bit believable… fun.

bartv · November 27, 2020, 10:08am

I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!

zolo · November 27, 2020, 10:52am

Cheers, you too

object · December 2, 2020, 4:57am

how did you get the hand drawn look? This is exactly what ive been trying to get in my renders. Also aamazing job!

zolo · December 2, 2020, 6:07pm

Hi, thank you as for the look, it is pretty much summed up in that node setup of table material. This was the base that made up all of the shaders. so for example, for the knight, I took some color and normal maps of metal and plugged them into principal shader and then using colorramp gave them toon-like style. Then in order to get those lines in the darker area, I used the part of the node setup you see in frame “lines”. It creates lines and multiplies them with calculated color of the mesh, but show up only in the darker areas thanks to that middle colorramp. also, ambient occlusion gave it a better look.

object · December 3, 2020, 11:27am

wow, that is a really smart approach, thanks tons! this is really going to help me in the future!

zolo · December 4, 2020, 7:00am

No problem! Good luck, make something nice

animelix · December 7, 2020, 5:57pm

really cool!

tovebenmosi · December 13, 2020, 1:08am

A nice idea, it’s funny with out trying too hard.

Boder · December 13, 2020, 3:32am

Thanks for this funny short. The character is the mug sliding in is . The candle material doesn’t look quite as good as the rest in my opinion. When the straw slides in, maybe try it starting at a higher speed and slowing down faster. I also thought there was some sort of causal relation between sucking the beer and collapsing; if it was his battle wounds that did him in, maybe just raise the hand on the side of the axe. It looked like brain freeze to me.

zolo · December 14, 2020, 12:39pm

Thanks guys, also for the suggestions. The straw, its speed and so on, I tinkered with it for quite some time I had the knight rotate, it was all set and then I thought I maybe should indeed make it roll faster, but when I did, suddenly the knight did not match (I should have tracked the straw but coordinate system was somehow messed up and i ended up with the character upside down, so I did it manually) and I thought, whatever, and left it as it was. We have actually been trying to simulate the sound by rotating an uneven roll on a wooden floor and were really unable to match the speed of the animation As for what did him in, it was indeed the beer. It was quite strong and potent and with all the blood loss he just got blood poisoning and died