The story of the sheep and doing it at the same time has been therapy for me, but also tiring toil and battling problems, crying and screaming.
Really grateful for the many free (and paid) items that people and the Blender world shared. Likewise from the numerous instructions I have received from the BlenderArtists website from all of you! Thank you!
Unfortunately, the quality of animation varies depending on when the scene in animation was made and with what equipment (GPU memory full, RAM memory full etc.) and with what kind of skills or addons.
There are about 70-80% of the finished material that I have been working on in just over a year. If it could touch or comfort someone, my pray. By God’s grace alone.
Impressive work, animating eight minutes is no joke. Very tender story. Inspired camera work too, good direction. It looks like you went for something as realistic as possible in terms of rendering, but perhaps it would have worked better if a little more stylized. Regardless, mad props !
Nevermind the technicalities: your grasp of camera-work, lighting effects and visual storytelling is amazing. Literally by the end of the very first minute, you had just “told a story” (with a “teardrop”) in a way that is just as good as I’ve ever seen. The choice of music is outstanding. And, the way that you creatively continue to use “that teardrop.” And then you use “camera transitions,” between a candle and a campfire. (And the sheep warms itself by it.) There are then very imaginative camera transitions as the story moves into its second act. “Focus pulls,” you name it.
Oh thank you so much for the nice words to all of you!
I’m quite surprised when I visited here now, when I haven’t really received many comments from anyone close to me. I was surprised at the number of views, when previous animations only always had number about 20.
You all just gave me a lot of strength to still be able to continue the next part, of which some tens of percent were done. Of course, there is always a small fear that the level of the story will fluctuate, but let’s see what will come of this.
The story is also about us, my now 7 year old daughter, me and my beloved wife, who is already waiting for us in Heaven. Hoping that the story could also be for those who have had to experience the “loss” of a loved one(s) or their pet, health etc., and that it would also bring hope of seeing them again soon at Home in Heaven and still manage here one day at a time.
Thanks! Yes, I have some need to try to find ways to make it realistic, when I don’t really have that artistic eye, like many people here (or have to imitate what others do). Big challenges with hair, hard to find a way to get woolly hair and when animating to get good results because the sheep mesh is made by myself - bad topology. It could certainly work better stylized!
Oh beautiful! Thanks! The music seemed to finally fall into place, tried to do all this with a lot of prayer. Nice if the camera work was appropriate, the more I looked at it, the more brutal it looked. Of course, I was surprised in some parts when rendering, that oh, how did it go like that, when I tried something completely different.
Lovely!
So nice to hear, thank YOU
Empowering to hear, thanks for this support!
Be blessed all of You and Your families; BG_Division, bartv, Hadriscus, sundialsvc4, a59303 and digitvisions
Thanks for this lovely comments (although criticism wouldn’t hurt either, it would give me understanding to do next part better)!
grace alone.
Same to You, God bless!
Thanks! The music seemed to finally fall into place, tried to do all this with a lot of prayer. Nice if the camera work was appropriate, the more I looked at it, the more brutal it looked. Of course, I was surprised in some parts when rendering, that oh, how did it go like that, when I tried something completely different.
