Xmas challenge 2021 WIP – dropping love this season

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December 6, 2021 at 10:34 am #14526
Sébastien Lenaerts
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Hi guys!

Happy to see a new challenge 🙂 , energy and inspiration are back 🙂 .

‘t is the season of sharing with your loved ones, ones you may not have seen enough this year. This is why I want to create a modern chariot dropping packages of love.

The text should spray out from stars shooting out the engines (challenge), and shute droping from the chariot.

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December 6, 2021 at 10:48 am #71547
Adrian Bellworthy
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Nice idea !

Great to see you back on this challenge with renewed energy and inspiration.
December 6, 2021 at 4:10 pm #71548
tanya
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great idea, looking forward seeing it when it’s done.
December 8, 2021 at 1:58 am #71549
Sébastien Lenaerts
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Thx @adrian2301 , @tanya53 !

to complete the scene, I added a house on the hills; this should be out of focus on animation. The xmas space shuttle, should be shooting stars and snow and as it passes by, the snow and star trail will dissipate only to show the message written in the stars. packets of “love” are dropped while passing by.

The objects are still too flat and low poly, the texturing needs work and the composition will probably keep on evolving as I make changes.
December 8, 2021 at 3:14 am #71550
Vue Thao
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Package of Love is a great idea. I like it.
December 8, 2021 at 6:50 am #71551
spikeyxxx
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Looking good already!

Don’t go too crazy with your shaders though, A GIF only has 256 different colors (per frame)….
December 9, 2021 at 4:22 am #71552
Adrian Bellworthy
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Its a shame technology has forced Rudolph and friends into early retirement.

But I’m sure they are happy more packets of love can be spread around the world.

Great Job!
December 9, 2021 at 4:44 pm #71553
tanya
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Looks good! Have you tested it as a .gif yet? I always find it takes more time to have an animation do something than I think it should (i.e. takes more than 1 second to get up). I don’t think low poly is a problem, it seems to me you have to pick a style and then just be consistent with it. It’ll look nice when you finish.
December 10, 2021 at 6:19 am #71554
Sébastien Lenaerts
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@tanya53 good idea, I didn’t think about testing the process first. there is still a lot to tweak, but it goes the right direction. I like the old school gif feel already 🙂
December 11, 2021 at 2:02 am #71555
Sébastien Lenaerts
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enter geometry nodes to create the text with stars , not sure how I can make it more readible without having to layer the real text on top of. I’ll play around. Still have to tweak the chariot animation. I’ve been experimenting with constraints follow path and lock to an empty so it keeps the nose in front. and I still have to decorate the scene a bit more.
December 11, 2021 at 2:31 am #71556
spikeyxxx
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If you increase the spacing between the letters, the text might be easier to read…

Also, it might benefit from some curvature; it is very straight and therefore feels sort of disconnected from the chariots trail…but maybe that is what you are going for…
December 12, 2021 at 6:38 am #71557
Sébastien Lenaerts
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Thx Spikeyxxx! great advice, I’ll play around some more.

Cheers!
December 13, 2021 at 5:56 am #71558
Adrian Bellworthy
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Looks great @slenaerts

I think this works really well for a Gif.

I maybe tempted to reduce the bloom intensity a little,

I would like to see the sleigh a little better at the beginning.

Anyone seeing this for the first time might think its Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin delivering Amazon Packages.

Who is the real Santa?

I used to think he was real person called Santa Claus,

then as I got older and thought my father,

now, maybe its Jeffrey Preston Bezos!
December 15, 2021 at 1:28 am #71559
Sébastien Lenaerts
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Thanks Adrian!

so what’s new?

I discovered that parenting to followpath makes the sleigh point a little better in the direction of the track. the followpath constraint makes it hard to control where the nose is pointing. I still need to play with the rotation to get it right and it needs his driver. If I have extra time I’ll add the dropped packages and maybe some more decoration to make it less “flat”.

The tips from Spikey really do help make the text more readible from the geo nodes, these nodes are fun to play with.

I still need to lower the resolution in this one to get the Gif grain.

Will work on it tonight and tomorrow night, hope I’ll get a more coherent animation by then
December 15, 2021 at 2:58 am #71560
spikeyxxx
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Cool!

It looks a bit as if the sleigh is sliding sideways in the middle part of the animation…and is it me, or is it clipping when it gets close to the camera?

I’m sure you’ll get it done in time!
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