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Long time

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, March 29, 2018, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is beyond words!!! Just wow!!

- Re-Rendering a lot...of the same, haha

Like the last time I got to vlog, these weeks contained a lot of re-rendering. With the new 10-layer method, it means that some scenes have too many artifacts... I tried rendering some shots with it to get a much sharper result, but honestly, some shots are only going to be as good as they are with the methods I currently have at my disposal. A lot of re-rendering has occurred these weeks. On...

Week of the ReRender

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, February 22, 2018, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is so wonderful!!

- Re-Rendering a lot

Like I mentioned in the video, after seeing the issues with the upscaling (after noise reduction and even doing them together), I re-rendered the shot like GOD wanted in the first place. HE did give me leave to keep it as-is and just noise reduce and later upscale, but you really lose out on quality... It's like the smear between DVD and VHS - it's really obvious - not indetail, but in overall finish.

Which leads me to my...

Post fix

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, February 15, 2018, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is beyond words!!! Just wow!!

- Rendering to video

After finishing the vlog, I wanted to create the thumbnail for the video and of course, every week I use something from that week to make it and I found nothing in the 2DHD folder when I looked in it in Gimp and when I double checked the rendering itself, guess what, it was rendering to video at only 6000kbps!!!!!!! I had missed switching it back from doing the OpenGL tests (which I render straight to video - no...

Camera flow

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, February 8, 2018, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is so good!!

- Broken legs no more

Last week during recording, GOD gave me a solution to the frog problem - that I shared with you guys. This week, HE gave me another one as it relates to random frog rotation. With the first fix - the legs remain perfect, but they can only go in one direction. The fix in the week fixed the legs and they can go in any direction. Both fixes have their place. The first one allows you to have all your frogs go in the same direction....

Broken legs

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, February 1, 2018, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is beyond words!!! Just wow!!

- Broken legs?!

I am happy to say that I am not talking about my own legs here, haha. Whenever the frogs jumped in the floor footage, their IK's would lag behind and because of overall rotation, the legs would break and unbreak with every jump. This week I'm aiming to fix it, because just after the recording, GOD gave me the solution and I edited it in. So keep an eye out for that!

- Shot finally done and wow!

For the last few wee...

An open floor

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, January 25, 2018, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is beyond words!!! Just wow!!

- Eevee toon shader update

I am happy to say that I didn't even touch these this week. I did however find a problem with the documentation page. It kept breaking and I didn't know why until GOD showed me something very interesting. I started looking at the formatting and the images and as I scrolled down the page, I saw that the one image was broken halfway down - the brownish anisotropic toon shader example. The moment I removed th...

A speech

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, January 18, 2018, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is so good!! Thank YOU!

- Eevee toon shader update

I am so thankful to be on this project! It does take up a lot of time, but in the end all that time will be more than made up with the much faster render time - not to mention the multiplied decades saved for other users as well!

This week I got to kick off with the release of v2 for the Eevee toon shaders. I'll be honest, I thought that it would end there and that my part would be done, but nope, hahaha. I go...

Back to work

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, January 11, 2018, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is beyond words!!! Just wow!!

- No vlog last week

Thankfully I was able to let you guys know there wasn't going to be a vlog, but at the same time I hate that there wasn't. Thankfully it is not for lack of productivity, hahaha. Some of this week did go into upgrading and improving the shaders as well (not yet available as v2, haha). GOD willing, soon!

- Toon shaders for Eevee

As you all know, Wasili and I recently released a set of toon shaders for the Eevee r...

Frog fix

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Wednesday, December 27, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is so wonderful!!

- Frog problems

Now I spoke about the frogs two weeks ago. While the frog was finished ito modelling, there were some serious issues with the rig. You'll remember that the eyes were heavily drooped as a result. Now, personally, I don't have a problem with droopy eyes (mine are a little droopy too, hehe), but this was borderline terrified or extremely disappointed. So it had to be fixed.

I noticed a few things.

- Model adjustments post-rig

I di...

Cantillation

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, December 21, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is beyond words!!! Just wow!!

- Musical options

Generally, most movies would get someone to do what is known as scoring. When you score something, it can be a goal too, but not in music, haha. In music, you are simply writing the coordination for a symphony or orchestra or whatever set you envision for the particular part of the film or production.

In my case, this comes down to me. I have basically 0 experience in writing for a symphony. After Exodus I will h...

There is a frog

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, December 14, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog:

GOD is so great!

- There is a frog

Haha, finally! We have a frog! Progress people, progress! Small, but still there! Think I'm just plain tired tbh, haha.

Anyhow, I'll get to fixing the rigging this week, GOD willing, and then move on to animating it and then we can get on to chapter 8's more visual production. For the frogs, I would like to record real frogs croaking at night and I know of a location where I can do that, but it'll also have a loooooot of crickets. M...

The right frog

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, December 7, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is so great!

- Frog choice

So, it was sooooo long ago, how do we know what frog to use. Well, honestly and truly, we depend on the leading of the HOLY SPIRIT to make the absolute best selection possible. For me, HE takes me through research and in that process directs me to this or that article. For example, the research led to nothing on wikipedia alone. And I mean literally nothing. There was nothing to say what kind of frogs you would typically find in Egypt ...

Short stop

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, November 30, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is so great!

- Wind sound

Yay, finally got it into the video, hahaha. Pardon any poor sound quality this week. I have no idea where the interference is coming from, but it's removal really eats away at the audio quality and I hate it...

You guys know I like to make sure the audio I put out is the very best I am enabled to produce.

- Writing sound effects

I absolutely luv this! I've used it so many times I've lost count. Writing sound effects is a gift. I've a...

Reptilian enough

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, November 23, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so great!

- Wind sound
Of course, the grasshoppers are still a way off, but whenever I do get the chance to, I like to make the sounds that will come up. That way when the time comes I can just throw them into the edit - keeps the work going. Anyway, last week I spoke about using tape for wind noise and this week (recorded it last week) I got to edit it!! Yay!! It sounds a bit repetitive in a way, but honestly, I absolutely luv how it turned out! GOD is so aw...

Polishing audio

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, November 16, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so great!

- Audio to-do list for chapter 7 (excludes music)
I am so glad to be this close to done with chapter 7! GOD knows how much just this chapter and all the rest of the prep work for it has stretched me in every way!! I am very satisfied with the quality and the length as well. I'm nowhere trying to lengthen it unecessarily, because it's not supposed to bore you to tears - it's supposed to be experienced, like Eric Hovind said about Genesis: Paradise ...

Last shot remaining for chapter 7

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, November 9, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so awesome!

- Audio Super Resolution
I have been wondering about this for a while and so I really was so driven by curiosity today that I just googled it and I was stunned that it actually existed!! How cool is that!!! I believed it could be done and there it is! Of course, just like SR in video, you also get various means of doing it for audio. The examples in the link below, were done through teaching the computer what the differences are for general spee...

The almost end of a chapter

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, November 2, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so great!

- Sound work
Almost no sound work for the week. In fact, so little that I don't recall if I actually did any this week, hahaha.

- Dynamic Plaster
Thankfully, I did get to play with this effect a bit, but did not get far. The problem here is that for hieroglyphics, you want solid colors (no shadows) and that means the effect needs some modification. Of course, you do get exceptions, because someone always wants to be different, but in this case, I...

Hand over

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, October 26, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so wonderful!!

- Sound work
Last week I talked about a few issues with the sound. I forgot about these in the vlog, but no matter - it saves drastically on data and honestly, you won't notice much of a difference anyway (a reflection on how small the adjustments are), hahaha.

- Fire sound adjustment
I mentioned last week that the fire sounds were too loud - especially on head phones and so I reduced them this week. I do notice that they don't really have ...

Sound off

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, October 19, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so great!

Oh, pardon the scratchy sound. I'm not sure whether the interference is coming from, but will look into it, GOD willing!

- Sound work
Last week I talked about sound work at the end of the post and pretty much not at all in the video, but over the weekend I got to spend a lot of time on not just recording sound, but adding sound to the project. In fact, here is a list:
- Spatter contact (same as next)
- Water hitting pavement (works for concrete too...

3D Switch

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, October 12, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so great!

- 3D methods come together
Last week I got to share with you guys how GOD gave me a new 3D method that gives supremely sharp results. Of course, it still has a few catches, but it certainly produces! Anyway, this week I saw for the first time that GOD knew I needed it, before I knew I needed it (nothing new there, hahaha).
The shot where the magicians face the camera needed to be sharp in order to get a sense of space. Yes, they do kinda look li...

New method

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, October 5, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so awesome!

- New 3D method
In the spirit of posting a new tutorial two weeks ago, GOD gave me two of the coolest gifts for production:
- A new 3D method
- that's 2 seconds faster and much higher quality (with a catch though)

Over the passed few years, GOD has given me an amazing amazing 3D method that enables me to do 3D renders for just a few seconds more than a 2D one. Ever since the whole process started, it has been a total dream of mine to be able to pr...

3D on YouTube

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, September 28, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so cool!!!

- Posting 3D content from Blender on YouTube (Tutorial video)
Last week I mentioned that I would like to do a video on this very tricky and prickly topic and included a lot of technical info on it in the post itself:
http://bibleanimations.yolasite.com/blog/a-single-shot

I recommend that if you are someone interested in uploading Stereoscopic 3D (Side-By-Side), it is certainly worth checking out!

Note: For some reason it does not want to display 3D ...

A Single Shot

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, September 21, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is beyond words!!! Just wow!!

- Posting 3D content from Blender on YouTube (requires a middle step)
This has been a very sore point of contention for me! Wow! I never knew that something so simple could frustrate me to such an extent! I believe the reason it frustrated me so has to do with the call on this project. When you're called to sing and you have to sit in a workshop fixing watches or be in a law firm, you will be so down and so irritated (or just plai...

Color grading and process

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, September 14, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so great!

- Color Grading
I watched an amazing presentation on color grading a while back. An absolutely brilliant colorist spoke about using various equipment to color grade and how you can actually grade something with much much higher accuracy if you look first at the equipment and know what you're going for. It kinda works like a read-out that shows you where everything is at and how strong everything is and where there is room for improvement. You coul...

Foley it up

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, September 7, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so awesome!!!

- Bokeh blur
This was an interesting addition to the new defocus node I was not expecting! I saw a render in the banner on BlenderNation and really felt led to add the Bokeh effect to it. You can check out the render I am talking about here.

I talk more about the differences between the two in the video, but the main differences between the two is the way it blurs. The blur node is a very soft, very even blur, while the bokeh and other blurs...

Week of testing

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, August 31, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is just wow!!

- Anime Metal

Without a doubt one of the hardest materials to produce for a flat shaded look, I really learned a lot about the approach to metal in anime and the results are super surprising!
Shockingly, in most cases, you were just looking at the equivalent of a diffuse shader or even more alarming, a shadeless one! In almost every situation from the 80's, you would find that metal is purely metal, because it is metal - often times, at the most...

Next up

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, August 24, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is super!

- Massive Speed boost
This is one has me a little frazzled to be honest, hahaha. Blender has the weirdest issues sometimes. When I work in the compositor. The 2D compositing takes a second, if not less. With the 3D node in the project, it takes approx 48 seconds to convert the final 2D composite to 3D with the depth map. That means, a 2:29 render, takes 3:18 to complete. If I make a clean project with only the 3D node and I use image sequences for the...

Pharaoh's heart

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, August 17, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so cool!!

- Anime backgrounds and 3D
This is one I have been battling with for a very very very very very long time. While GOD has certainly given me a lot of ways to get closer and closer to the look, I think we have to face up to a few things, just to get some perspective here (I've spoken about at least some of them before):

- Humans interpret
Something I've heard a while ago is that your brain doesn't store images, but information and when you recall so...

Magicians get owned

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, August 10, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is so wonderful!!! Just wow!!

- Keeping track
I don't recall ever having spoken of organization as it relates to a project like this, but GOD has certainly shown me that my organizational skills for media need some sharpening. It's not always just about naming things (though that is extremely important to make sure you don't waste time looking for things), but it is also about the discipline to keep your hard drive clean and garbage free. In other words - don't ...

Magicians take action

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, August 3, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!
This week's vlog!

GOD is beyond words!!! Just wow!!

- Technical is not the word
I already spoke on this in the video, but briefly, so I can elaborate here. Last week I had two re-renders. The one was for the flickering chairs behind Moses and Aaron and the other was the scene where the magicians appear in a cloud of smoke. While these are amazing shots, the magicians one needed a little something more. It was a bit lack luster. While the luster is restored using this transitional eff...

Anime in 3D

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, May 4, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!!!

GOD is so amazing!!!!

- Anime and 3D
Oh yes, we're kicking off with the main point of this week's video, which ironically only took a bit of the afternoon and a piece of the evening! haha.
Anime and 3D seem to be at odds with one another in various ways, but particularly in frame rate. There are scenes in anime that get the full 24fps treatment and then there are those, where the head is perfectly still for like 2 or three seconds and only the lips and eyes move...

An opening that glows

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, April 20, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog! :D

GOD is so awesome!

- Video progress
I am so thankful I got to finish it this week! It looked like a big thing to complete and while it took a while, I'm very happy with the result. I cannot emphasize what a difference it makes to storyboard something before jumping into it. GOD really gives you so many ideas that it's stunning! Too many to use and you know exactly which one is the right one! GOD is so good!!

- Tutorials
What a week!! GOD enabled me to get two t...

Storyboards drawn halfway

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, April 13, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is super awesome!!

- Productivity
Obviously I've written about this a few times and I am so thankful that GOD made this week stand out among others! In two days HE helped me draw 81 or 82 frames for the storyboards (that excludes the few I had to leave out because of error or poor drawing, hahaha) and a new tutorial for Cycles. I cannot say thank YOU enough!! GOD is so good!!

- New tutorial
On Saturday morning, and I mean really early, GOD enabled me to quickl...
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Rough storyboards

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, April 6, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This weeks vlog!!!

GOD is so awesome!!!

- Lice in and on?
This week I saw another one of those "contradictions". This one follows two verses:

"And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast....

Some color appears

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, March 9, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This weeks vlog!!

GOD is so amazing!

- 7 days passing and other plagues
I don't recall having spoken about this in a previous vlog, but since we're on the screenplay and storyboards phase, with some experimentation and even final renders, I do find this to be a bit of an issue. We only have a single indication of how long a plague lasted and that is in the last verse of chapter 7 which reads:

"And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river." Exodus 7:25, KJV

W...

Moving into chapter 8

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, March 2, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!!

GOD is so awesome!!

- Very little time this week
I had an amazing week. I got to go visit my cousin over the weekend and got to some much needed garden and house work, so this week, I literally had only 1 afternoon and an evening, haha. GOD made it such a productive afternoon - it was just amazing! I still felt pulled to procrastinate, but it was much less than usual.

- A stinging experience
Also got stung by bees for the first time, haha. I was mowing the lawn and ...

Sketching a story

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, February 23, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!!!

GOD is super awesome!!! Very very productive week!!

- Story boarding
I'm the kinda person that wants to just jump in and do it, but even for Esther I didn't do that. I did for Genesis and I believe that's why it wasn't visually as strong as these are so far. Just do storyboards. If you are making anything you want to have a coherent flow to it, you really need to plan the shots out. Take it from someone who wanted to skip it! It really helps to see it on paper! Pl...
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The first render

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, February 16, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog:

GOD is so amazing!!!

After the bulls I was stumped, I thought I had done a lot more during the week and GOD just told me to go get breakfast and relax and HE'll show me what I missed and it wasn't that I didn't show it all, but I didn't mention it all. In other words, the fields were shortened, characters were fixed back to the ground, shadoof's rigged, landscape modified, etc. It's easy to miss little things, hahaha. After breakfast, I recorded the second part and ad...

Fields of wheat

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, February 9, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!!

GOD is so incredible!!

- Fields and detail
A bit of a touchy subject for me, because I wanted to be able to render the wheat in it's physical, or at least, plane form, but for this scale of scene and my PC, I am so thankful GOD gave me this solution!! It works beautifully! Part of what HE used to inspire this particular idea, was Superbook's clip of Ruth gleaning in Boaz's field (they did a stunning wide shot of the field). They could put a lot more physical detail...

Citizens for a country

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, January 12, 2017, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is so gracious!!

- Procrastination

Now there is something everyone can relate to in some way. I've had a serious struggle with this over the Christmas and new year. I was really really irritated by how little I got done and felt like it would take me 10 years to finish at that pace and GOD showed me that the days I chose to do certain tasks were out of wack and not only that, but watching a lot of videos online also stole hours, along with Facebook news feed scro...

I herd of goats

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, December 15, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!

Today's vlog!!!

GOD is super awesome!!! :D

- Particle distribution
Quite a topic to say the least! Particles are extremely useful for increasing scene size (and memory consumption), while keeping render times as low as possible. In fact, it makes scenes that were impossible on a single PC possible! I learned about this during the Esther 6 project, when GOD lead me to use particles to add details to the buildings, just because it was faster and on another project, where I had to make a...

Normal editing

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, December 8, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is soooo good!!

- Normal editing
Now, this is a bit of a topic for me that I really try to avoid, as it's editing is really not as straight forward as I would like it to be, but it certainly not a bad thing. It really enables you to create stylistic inaccuracy while still being well able to move lights and all sorts of other scene objects and still get the right look. In regards to trees, I've wanted that painted and layered look for a while and this is, I believe,...

Throne room

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, November 17, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!

This week's vlog!

GOD is so super awesome!!!! :D

- Pillars
GOD's idea! I totally missed saying that in the video, but it is so needed, because I actually felt over the weekend that I was going to have to model new pillars from scratch, because the court's ones were just way too short. In HIS usual calm demeanor HE just let me know that I can stretch out the pillars, no big deal. And it worked amazingly well! I am so thankful! HE helped me fix the alignment as well as the stumped point, s...

That was busy!

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, October 27, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!

GOD is beyond wonderful!

This week's vlog entails a lot. It's shorter, but from a general look back, this may have been the most productive week yet!

- Statues
Another particle distribution, this one is much smaller. Only about 6 statues. Having said that, making 1 took enough effort, hahaha. I cannot thank GOD enough for HIS insights into how to make it properly. It was so well configured that it worked superbly for Freestyle, even though that was not the final goal.
Additionally, it ...

Characters galore

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, October 20, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!

Today's vlog maybe? hahaha

GOD is so wonderful!!

What a productive week this has been! I am so thankful for what got done!! I just want GOD to give me such speed that it would make my head spin, haha.

- Characters
In the previous vlog, I spoke about adding more variety to certain characters. In the beginning of the week, I was able to edit them quite a bit more. I'm not 100% satisfied with 1 of them (or say 1 out of 2, as in one of the two needs to be changed), because they still look...

A lot

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, September 22, 2016, In : WIP

Hey everyone!!

It's that time of the week again and wow did this week feel short! hahaha. Without further hold up, here's the video!

GOD is beyond awesome!!!

Magicians:
Manipulation within reason
As with most people, their faces differ, but the question is how far does it need to be pushed in order to be a unique individual. Well, you can consider a few basics:
- Overall head shape
- Chin shape
- Skinniness of the face
- Eye corner angle
- Eye distance
- Nose length
- Mouth size and shape
Beyond...

A city in production

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, March 24, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!

I'm super excited to finally be getting to the next scene!! I've been working hard, obviously, to get it to where it is today, but this week, I have very little to show for it, in terms of a final result that's really nice!

So, I do get to share with you guys a few things from this week:

- Clouds

(not 100% what I wanted, but the closest yet, PRAISE GOD!)

Now, while this is not 100% the result I was hoping for, HE did command me to do a tutorial for it, which you can see down here. Include...

Night scene done and tutorial

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, March 17, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!

Yey, about another minute's animation done and edited!! Here is the whole thing so far - for this week's animation, skip to 01:06

GOD is awesome!!!!

Today, we get to talk about the subject of a new tutorial (Action lines, whoop whoop), as well as some travesties you can easily avoid (triple whoop whoop, haha).

- Night scene done:
Finally, the night scene section is finished. Has been months of hard work and GOD has been so awesome and I've learned a ton, but it is finally finished. Now, i...
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Animation and sound effects

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, March 10, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!

Today's update takes a bit of a different route. I'm actually gonna let you watch everything I've been graced to put together so far - not fullHD, as that takes significantly longer and this took long enough to upload last night so I can actually share it, hahaha.

So, here is everything put together so far:

(Only 01:08, so it's a quick watch)

Now let's get into what went into this, hahaha.

Animation challenges and tips:

- Make sure your models are complete before rendering.

Sounds kinda duh...
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Render render render

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, March 3, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!

Today's post is absolutely loaded with renders and a video or two and we talk about dialogue! haha.

- 7 Chamberlains
Let's kick it off where we ended last week - modeling! When I posted last time, with each post, I wondered how many chamberlains the king actually had attending him. And oh yes, there were 7. It's in the first chapter of Esther and I was like NOOOOOOOooooooooo.......... Haha. By this time, I had already modeled one and GOD insisted from the start of it, that I make a time...
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The king's room

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, February 18, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!

Time for the weekly update!

This week, the focus has been on the king's room. For me, this is incredibly difficult, because I find no info on traditional Persian interiors. I do know that they did do a lot of things the same way as the Indians did - lots of arches, pillows, low to the floor furniture, etc., but honestly, I don't know to what extent this is the case, so I have to follow peace and ironically, it has made for quite a modern appearance.

Additionally, since the first time we...
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Gardens galore

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, February 4, 2016, In : General

Hey all!

Today's progress update is rife with huge updates and a few more speed up tips and some general tips as well! :D

To start off, I would like to talk about the additional speed up tips GOD gave me through this week. I cannot even begin to express my gratitude!! I definitely think that a single frame would have taken 12 to 20 minutes to complete, had HE not teach me all these tricks!!

- ZTransparency
Yesterday, GOD had me do a post on how to fix the edge problem with ZTransparency. I'm not...
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Mordecai's ride

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Monday, January 11, 2016, In : WIP

Hey all!!

After so much work, it's hard to see him finally on the horse, but immensely satisfying. GOD is awesome!!! :D

He looks great and he looks like he's having a blast - which is what I believe it should look like. It was an honor GOD bestowed on him as part of his vindication from the hands of Haman.

There are still a few things to fix here - such as the horse's front legs' weight painting. The bones specifically. The cloth below the saddle doesn't have strong enough weights, so when the s...

Horse WIP

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Friday, January 1, 2016, In : WIP

Hey everyone!

Today I got to work on the horse again and GOD was so faithful, as usual, haha, and I'm so happy with the results. I tried giving the horse more typically anime eyes, but that made it look more cartooney and character-like than a functional horse. So anyway, while there is still a solid amount of character in the eyes, they are not nearly as cartooney as they get when you add those black outlines, haha.

So without further ado, I'm going to let you see it below, starting with the v...
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Horse progress

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Tuesday, December 22, 2015, In : WIP

Hey all!

When we last left Mordecai, he was absolutely horseless. That means his voice was clear, hahaha, no. The king's horse had to be brought for him to ride on. He already got the king's outfit and now was the time for the horse to be given as well.

Since the king doesn't even exists as a character on my PC yet, he was in no position to own a horse, so I had to make one, haha.

These are how the horse progressed to it's current wip status:

And finally, where it is as of this morning!

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Mordecai Progress

Posted by Marius Oberholster on Thursday, December 17, 2015, In : WIP

Hey all!

Today, despite Esther 6 not being done yet, I felt lead to publish the site, so I hope that you are still blessed by what you see here.

Today, with this publishing, I also feel lead to share with you the progress on Mordecai. In Esther 6, you only see him once and that is when Haaman has to parade him in a display of honor through the streets, so he has to look fancy. I may change the head dress to be more fancy, but in general, this is the kind the jews apparently wore, called a mookl...
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