Beyond The Ziggurat: Water Experiments

thelocomotive (50) in animator • 6 years ago (edited)

Hello Steem! Happy to see the network stabilized with the recent fork so I wanted to post something for the first time in a while. Lately I've been finishing up the last few touches to an animated music video for @illpoetic (will post about that soon) and finishing up a slew of other work.

But! I've still had time to experiment and work on my passion project of over 5 years, Beyond The Ziggurat. For the past 3 years I've been building a custom render engine/tool set within After Effects. This engine was built specifically for Beyond The Ziggurat and has forced me to discipline and streamline my animation process- to the point where I use this for my professional freelance work comfortably. I completed the main the architecture only a few months ago- so I've been eager to build tests and templates for common environments and situations. Also to ensure the workflow/engine can handle extremely resource intensive renders without making After Effects explode.

First hurdle was large bodies of water, oceans, anything like that. If I can't get this to render or look nice, the entire engine needs to be rethought as it is integral to the story. Luckily it seems to be going well. If I crash After Effects less than 100 times in a week I'm on the right track.

Further Tests:
Ocean_Engine_Build 2 (0-00-01-02).jpg

Still have a lot of work to do but I'm finally not worried it won't work.

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6 years ago by thelocomotive (50)

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c-squared (60) · 6 years ago

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thelocomotive (50) · 6 years ago

Woo!

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makowrites (54) · 6 years ago

This is excellent @thelocomotive! You're just the kind of artist I'm looking for for a project.

Here's the summary:

I’m hoping to find artists willing to work on a collaborative project in exchange for Steem. What that looks like exactly is up for discussion.

I’m hoping to put together a visual encyclopedia for my upcoming novel as a companion. What this would entail is doing any number of pieces based on specific commission or a number of writings I’ve released so far, to help establish a visual basis for the world I’m creating.

The pieces would then be hosted on http://incorruptiblebook.com/

Know that I cannot pay by traditional means. The options available to you are either negotiating exclusive right to post, taking a % cut of anything I post that uses your work, or working for free/exposure. I understand if you would prefer to decline.

~ Mako

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thelocomotive (50) · 6 years ago

Appreciate the comment and liking my work! Unfortunately I don't have enough free time to focus on anything else but my own projects unless I'm able to be compensated. Thanks for the offer.