Starship 🛰️ Amelia 📡 @StarshipAmelia@witches.town

@blackle Esp the bit after 5:25

@blackle For some reason the line "Of course, every lock has a key somewhere in the world that fits it." from that creepypasta made me think of the end of this short animation??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACHVwA1D8fE

@blackle There's a microwave that does that! http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-119

@starkatt OpenTTD is highly good imo! Esp with lots of newgrfs ^^

@starkatt Thank you!!

@Efi @jk Well, in the tests that I did (several months ago, on a diff project, admittedly) trying to render directly to video is a. discouraged, and b. results in a lower quality-looking video, at least for the sort of aesthetic I'm going for.

@er1n Non-photorealistic-rendering, from what I've seen! (Only actually came across the term a few days ago, so I might be wrong!)

@Efi @jk I really wanted to have my animation end up as vp9 (and hevc/H.265, but masto doesn't support that unfortunately) and blender doesn't support those codecs that I could tell ^^;

@er1n Thank you! Getting blender's cycles render to behave in a closer-to-npr-way was probably the most challenging aspect, other than learning the particle system a bit more ^^

@Efi @jk Yeah mostly blender, see the other toot I made for details ^^

@jk It's mostly blender, but the textures for the planet and nebulae and "debris ring" around the planet are all hand-made with aseprite =>

To get the low res look I just rendered at 20% of 1080p and then upscaled with imagemagick, then shoved all the frames together with ffmpeg (I couldn't get ffmpeg's built in upscaling to avoid interpolation!)

To get the sorta "concentric circles" of light I used a custom node group, which is also responsible for the shadows being ever so slightly colorful.

If you're interested I've already uploaded the .blend for the r/blender contest so you could take a look if you'd like! http://pasteall.org/blend/index.php?id=47831

@Efi Perfect for proving Einstein wrong *once and for all* /s

@jk Thank you! I deleted the original toot cuz I had thought that I accidentally posted a still frame, instead of the actual animation whoops >_> (The new one should be fine tho!)

Here's the final version of my (looping!) planet animation! Hopefully the looping nature still works in masto, if not use this link: https://gfycat.com/DismalPowerfulChimpanzee

https://witches.town/media/0ViRVZ81pEMhHjB11Xw

#mastoart #art #blender #blender3d

@blackle xbuntu, the hot new xorg (circa 2005 version!) server-using distro!

(Alt joke: aubuntu, bubuntu, cubuntu, etc)

@Firstaide Yeah, totally. It's so gross and dehumanizing, which I suppose is the point of it (intentional or not >_> ) And I'm sorry about your grandad, that's shit

@Firstaide I hate when people do that, it's so shit.

It also seems pretty shit when people (usually ~autism parents~) post videos of (usually their kids) having a meltdown/panic attack with the sorta "oh poor me for having an autistic child" thing, and no mention of how tough it was for the autistic person at all >_>

I'm actually starting to understand ffmpeg I think. Soon I too will become video encoding software, as the ancient curse is passed down as said in the legends!