The heart of the mountain
What’s beautiful in landscapes ? Landscapes
Let’s redo them in Blender
An animation ? Where ?
That shot was realised for my animated short The Ascension of the High Hrothgar which hasn’t been finished yet and is on hiatus. It was a training on how to make convincing snow landscape and cold environments in general
Mountain in the making
Cycles and Eevee
Blender can use two different render engines. Cycles the path tracer, and Eevee the real time engine. Cycles look the best but takes a lot longer to render
You will see that, you can use Cycles all you want, if you render is ugly, your render is ugly
The heart of the mountain 🗻
A beautiful peek of the void
So…is that all ?
I think the lighting is agreeable and the composition is good. Or is there any composition at all ? In the final animation a character is supposed to be in the center, moving along the mountain, but because he was taken away there isn’t a focal element anymore
That render is empty and doesn’t show anything. There is no story, it’s a technical demo at best
But a good technical demo…right ?
Well not really. You can see the rocks are extremely faded and look again more like stains than actual rocks
The snowy landscape in the background doesn’t look remotely as good as the foreground and it’s noticeable. In an animation this could have been fine, but taken as an image on its own; it just isn’t good
