Zircron45

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VFX for Pulse

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@sylissrl insane motion

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@micholusu happy birthday!

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@sylissrl Him

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@sylissrl @wovah_ @TNT_RL @HVCLuc HUGE FREAKING WIN!!!

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@RaphaelRau @OTOY @rendernetwork Absolutely fantastic! I love stuff like this especially with spectral renderers like octane.

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@gabriel63184494 Yes indeed!

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Simulated atmosphere has been refined to a T! I used a satellite cloud image for the major details and added some procedural touches on top. I had a previous version with pure procedural but it took 10x longer to render.
Alternate angle in replies.
Blender Cycles.

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@sylisstic Holy moly

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Here it is without the glare to prove it's actually simulated. Previous posts include details about the lens itself and how it looks in an actual scene.

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FULLY SIMULATED anamorphic lens flare using octane's photon tracer and my own gottschalk anamorphic lens. Lens coatings are simulated as well so they produce "super saturated" colors. (that being colors outside of the srgb color domain, so the ARRI drt has to compress them)

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Meandering rivers + uplift simulated by my terrain tools in houdini

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@ExiledRLL @UltiRL LOL

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@pa_furijaz Dope work!

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@friedlbenedikt The overall scene is pretty small (in terms of actual scale) since blender clamps volume density. Kinda stinks but its a necessary compromise here.

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@saberpotatoboy LOL

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View from space, you can see the bright red band of light from the sun shining below the horizon.

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@IlyasseL_ I am so happy to see volumes getting so much love in the new blender patches. Genuinely a dream come true.

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@JangaFX shoutout cheese bread he a real one

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@wolfstudioart @samuel_krug This is/was stupidly frustrating trying to make it to scale, had to go down a factor of 100

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Atmosphere shading and cloud sim progress! Most of the clouds are entirely Blender procedural noises and textures. The big hero cloud is a vdb from @samuel_krug. Rendered in Blender Cycles.
Behind the scenes in reply.

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@3DDaniel1 @samuel_krug They can be rendered as an HDRI, my current goal is to do large scale terrains like in terragen but in blender.