Vanilla Seed animated greetings card done with Vray Blender

[dddjef_vanilla]

Finally! I can show you the reason why we harrassed you last weeks

enjoy !

http://vimeo.com/84324068

[cheerioboy]

wow, love love loved this

[Neilg]

This is great
Cant believe it was done with blender, ha.

[ALFRED_ST_MEDIA]

wonderful work. Great color and lighting, touching animation, and as a very special bonus...blender! Good to know for those side projects. Don't mind paying for VRay out of my own pocket, but really glad to see proof of blender's abilities.

[andybot_cg]

Great work! I love it Glad to see what can be done.

[vlado]

Wow very nice

[bdancer]

Super awesome!

[dddjef_vanilla]

Glad it pleased you, Andrei and Vlado, cause you're a part of it!

[leandro_cs]

Amazing, congratz!

[ArnaudT]

hey dddjef_vanilla !

I love your work, and would you share your settings ?

Like animation mode (prepass or not, IR-LC or not, ...)

If you used irradiance map, what settings do you recommend us to make a movie of this type

[dddjef_vanilla]

Hi Arnaud!
I've made a lot of tests on this film, because we had a short deadline, I couldn't afford to use bruteforce everywhere.
So, for every shot without character, we use a precomputed GI (IR + LC), with camerapath on. For the precomputing, I only render everty 50th frame.

I've made the same thing for all shots, hiding the characters if needed.
Then I render a character pass, using sphere fade. Don't forget to ask sphere background to be black and alpha 0. (btw I don't understand the use of the default grey for sphere fade).
For this pass I use brute force and a lot of tweaking for the DMC. Balance beteween global sampling and global (GI and lights, was very important)
I've found a very very good doc there :

http://www.cggallery.com/tutorials/vray_optimization/

[ArnaudT]

ok, thanks a lot for your answer !

[wazou]

Great job !!

[Seliverstoff]

Awesome! Very inspiring! Thanks for a great example!

Can you tell us a little more about the work?
For whom, why, time, complexity, etc.
Interestingly all.

[dddjef_vanilla]

Sorry, I haven't seen your question.
This film was made with about 4 peoples during 2 months. (but not always the same persons)
It was made for my copmany as as animated wishes card.
The main complexity for me was the snow shader. I've tried a million things (particle - displacement - car paint - etc...) without reaching what I want. But, luckily, characters and story was great, and it is not so important.

Thanks !