I animated this in 18 days... in Blender

I will breakdown my thought process for my Endless Engine submission, which took 18 days to complete!

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Procreate App (iPad)

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00:00 Intro
00:42 Before Day 01 • Planning
01:49 Day 01 • Sketch & Blockout
02:52 Day 02 • Previz
03:45 Day 03 • Character Block Outs
07:14 Day 04 • Refine Coffee Delivery Boy 01
08:01 Day 05 • Refine Coffee Delivery Boy 02
09:49 Day 06 • Texture Coffee Delivery Boy
11:35 Day 07 • Rig & Hair Coffee Delivery Boy
13:47 Day 08 • Refine & Texture Caffeine Addict
14:28 Day 09 • Hair Caffeine Addict
15:08 Day 10 & 11 • Model Vehicle
16:39 Day 12 & 13 • Texture Vehicle
17:54 Day 14 • Rig Vehicle
20:35 Day 15 & 16 • Animation & Hair Dynamics
26:07 Day 17 • Environment
27:41 Day 18 • Lighting & Colour Grade
32:03 thanks for watching :)

[tinynocky]

FAQ
Q1 • What addons/softwares did you use?
A1 • all addons/softwares I used are in the description

Q2 • Computer specs?
A2 • Laptop with RTX 3070, AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD

Q3 • Eevee or Cycles?
A3 • Cycles

Q4 • How many hours did you spend per day?
A4 • On average about 10 hours? had to spend some extra time figuring out new tools & techniques!

Q5 • Where's the final result?
A5 • 0:02 or 32:26

Q6 • Where can I see your entry?

Q7 • Render Settings?
A7 • 3840 x 1620, Noise Threshold 0.01, Samples 350, OpenEXR Multilayer
Light Paths:
Total: 12 (6)
Diffuse: 3
Glossy: 3
Transmission: 12 (6)
Volume: 0
Transparent: 12 (5)
(brackets = would have used these values instead)

Q8 • Song name?
A8 • All songs used, except for the intro, are from Maplestory

if I see anymore questions I'll list it here!

[tobiasmuller]

The video title is misleading. You didn't animate this. You did the whole damn scene from scratch and even documented the whole process! Love your understatement and the efforts you put in every single pipeline step.

[SuperQuesty]

3 years for 18 days is better than 6 years for 9 seconds. This dude has eliminated procrastination, said f*ck it and enabled flow state with Blender. That is craazzzy 💀💀

[ponganimates]

18 days?! You’re so talented at animation! 😭

[Epictes]

I was insanely suprised by the talent and dedication, The top 100 was just amazing

[dmonkeybizz]

This breakdown indicates clearly the difference between average and great. It is those 100 little boring tweaks that make such an amazing difference. When I started I was arrogant enough to just say, "Hey, nobody will even see it so why do it?" My results were so fake it was painful. Well done to you. This is truly some very beautiful work indeed, and thanks for sharing too!

[cybermad]

That 18 days for all the modeling, texture, rigging, scene, lighting... That actually lightning fast!

[RangoJalex]

Cool to see other people workflows. This is like 100x more professional than my workflow 😂

[edinamyao]

I don't know what to say, I've never felt more overwhelmed as an aspiring artist, this js just awesome and the fact that you did all of this alone ... damn it's so cool, cant believe it didn't make the Top 10!!

[tracyfortune]

My daughter went to uni for gaming arts design (mainly for the art) and the things she was able to do was just amazing. She's now a graphics designer in a printing business, but watching this made me remember how talented some people, like you, truly are. Bravo!

[Flying-Pictures]

I like how this video has more views than the challenge it was created for.

[stache_obj]

God i feel like i just learned 50 different new things. That was some goldmine of information. Really appreciate it. Fkn love the final render. I cannot believe that didn't make the top 100.

But as a Blender youtuber, what really really impressed me was the editing man. How long did that take Coz it feels like that must've taken more than 18 days to compile together, no 😂?

[CreativeVenus]

This is good. The way you are telling the story of your concept is really nice. Something to learn from here. Going good. keep it up. :)

[KeshArt]

Damn, this is impressive! Ive jist started learning blender and hope to get here someday.

[TintoGamesCo]

The process feels like a fever dream... who would know so much goes into such little time! Awesome run down!

[Lexyvil]

My god, haven't heard Maple Story music in about 20 years. This hit back killing snails and slimes West of Henesys. Amazing job on the short animation by the way.

[lpqjeng]

Your work is awesome! Such a workload in only 18 days - your are definitely a speedy animator!

[_DRMR_]

This was really an awesome breakdown of all the different techniques involved with making a really engaging, but still relatively simple, scene and animation.

I can easily see a whole team taking on these different aspects separately, but you really integrated this whole process well for this project!

[Jullkenberg]

Wow I'm amazed by the amount of hard work you put into editing. How you are able to show us the whole breakdown in a so interactive and good looking way without losing it's formative purpose. I really love your videos! Thank you for sharing all of this as you do! It's really valuable!

[zMacah]

it's wild how u went through all the details without it getting boring! That's an amazing video and u're so talented!! love this so much!