Thunder, Lightning, Castle and Dragon

Artwork Finished Projects
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Hope you enjoy it! It turned out darker than expected on video render (the frames are a lot brighter) i don’t know if thats due to dithering during compression to wmv. Its 800*433 and just over 20 secs long @ 2.8Mb.

Here it is!
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Let me know what you think

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i actually like the lighting. And the animations and models are great. But the rain drops looked too big. :expressionless:

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I think some motion blur might help with the raindrops. They seem to look a little too sharp with the lightning flashes. The modeling and animations look really good. :slight_smile:

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Apart from the (already mentioned) huge raindrops it was really good!

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OMG! Me likey. How did you get the fire breath to look so good? Do you think you could post the settings?

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yah. the fire looks suburb, along with the rest of it. i think the dragon coming down at the end is a bit bright though. keep it up!

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW…

Man that looks awsome apart from the big raindrops as stated… well , eevn that I could forgive seeing that this lends itself toward those anime styles game intros. the conclusion was very nice except the dragon was a little too hard to see during the film, but at the end it was way too bright, just tone that down a bit and you will be fine! 8 out of 10

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same about rain drops and dragon… also it ended a bit abrupt… I know the dragons just eaten me (ouch - gonna feel that in the morning) but from a cinematic point of view you could do with a black screen for a few more frames or black fading to brilliant white then credits… I sound so Holywood…lol

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well i just finished adding titles an music, and for those of yu interested in the particle system, i have built the same thing in a separate blend file which i shall post soon. I’ve just got to add the sparks system on top. in the end i’ll re-render with smaller raindrops. Q. If i add motion blur to scene, that will blur dragon also? how can i add blur to just those raindrops?

Thanks for responses!

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EDIT: Link no longer available
See thread for .blend. I posted in blender general forum as more people may find it useful too.

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Looks really good. I think it only needs to be a shade lighter, not much at all, just so you cansee the dragon manouvering properly. Otherwise, fantastic work!

JCTiger