Some stills from a short music video I made as my learning foray into Blender, rendered at 720p.
The star…
…the start…
…the entrance…
Check out the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pybmeZf5erU
Any comments or crits are welcome!
Thanks folks…
This is a really cool video. The lighting is very good througout 
Also, the shader for the entrance is very well done, it looks very good
If anything, the ‘cat’ character seems to move very slowly, but I guess this was intended
Thanks Pierre-Marie. Lighting on the forest was all done with one sun lamp, 3 on the cat. I don’t know what Maya’s renderer is like these days but last time I used it lighting something like this would have been unthinkable. There’s lots I like about Blender, but Cycles I love!
Yeah it’s very slow, pretty unusual for animation, always felt a bit uncomfortable about it but that’s the way it wanted to be. WTF, it’s a yin piece :o
It looks nice. The only improvement that I would suggest is the lip-syncing with the cats mouth and some more facial expressions, it kind of just looks like a stuffed animal right now.
That’s an interesting point. This is my first serious use of fur and I discovered along the way that it tends to muffle facial expression. Maybe that’s why cats all look kinda inscrutable. :eyebrowlift2:
Looking at it again I could extend the facial movement back into the skull, probably even exaggerate it, but after 6 months on this thing I need to move on. There’s a glaring gap in the action at one point that I may still fix, but the cat’s gonna have to wait til the next clip for the improvements you point out.
Thanks for the input!
