GIF(t) Challenge Part 1 (Christmas)- Merry Go Round

Awesome idea @otowa ,

I’m looking forward to seeing this.

That would be a pitty @otowa…

If the lights are a problem, you should try and instance them…you can use Geometry Nodes for that, but also just a Particle System if you find that easier:

Don’t give up before the deadline 🙂

Hey @otowa ,

I try to design these challenges not as a competition, but as individuals to challenge their ability, and push through the mental barriers to keep learning and practising with Blender.

Don’t give up.

With a Gif and in particular one like you are creating, with moving parts, spending too much time on detail will be wasted.

Your horses are perfect as they are.

for the lights, I would also suggest like spikey, looking at geometry nodes.

Take a look at Redjam9 on YouTube, he has some great tutorials on GeoNodes.

I used one of them and modified it to create the Christmas tree on the example Gif I made.

Keep going, 

and another reason for these challenges is to communicate through these WIP threads and bounce ideas off each other.

Don’t concern yourself with the deadline,

Keep calm and have a cookie.

That horse definitely looks detailed enough for a Gif!

I’d recommend making a test Gif, because a Gif uses a color palette of only 256 colors per frame…and your white horse, due to shading, already has more different colors (‘pixel-wise’)…not really a problem, but keeping it simple is the key here 🙂 

Simple modeling and simple shading.