all of these videos was just me messing around in mmd testing stuff out, but I decided to actually render them and post.
Alive:
was trying out nhcl2 shader. but I don’t really like the shader much especially when used in a dark environment because it adds super dark brown lines on a model. went with pomtskin. Was just trying different angles with the camera.
Alive v2:
Alive 1 the shadows were too dark for my personal tastes so I took things out such as selfoverlay and many other things that cast hard super dark shadows. The first one doesn’t look bad, but i wanted to see how it would look lighter. I normally prioritize seem the model clearly over trying to hardcore make it match the environment and have super real shadows. I also modified the Kirakira effect (the sparkles) to be less like white circles in the first video and more like little tiny light sources.
Mr. DJ:
Was going for a simple look. This motion doesn’t fit this model (or any more updated model) because it doesn’t use the arm twist bones. so the arms twist around funny in places. I edited the animation slightly to remove the worst of it. But I didn’t bother with fixing it for the entire animation. it is 4 thousand frames. I also slightly edited zytras legs and butt here in the test but I can see I need to re-weight it a little bit. I’m not totally sure if I will or not.
Trouble:
Aside from the sparkle kirakira effect, I was mostly testing things I haven’t spent time trying to find out they work. such as the godray effect. I also found a recent fur effect for the grass. going to something relative simple here also. No crazy camrea stuff and a peaceful like setting trying to resemble the forest areas around the area where Annie is from.
Thanks for going ahead and posting these, your test videos are still very good. And more Zytra is always welcome, test or not. Nice forest location with the last video.
Thanks, yeah needed more Zytra heh
Video 1 and 2 Alive.
I see man them shadow and light effect are very tricky when dealing with multiple light and shadow. The second video you can see her completely but looks kind of off. If only you can manage to make the light effect going to her. Seen shade of light and shadow around her. Never mind sounds more complicated. Maybe she uses a hairpin or some bracelet that is shinning to make effect lights. I like the BG of the night light of the city.
Video 3 Mr DJ.
I found it very hard to find a problem with this animation. The only thing I see missing is the butt and leg muscle that suppose to bounce a little. Other than that I see no problem with the animation. The BG on this reminds me of Kingdom Hearts don’t know why. LOL
Video 4 Trouble.
I like how the BG with the sparkle effects work for this. Maybe some sun light effect at the camera, or lights coming out of the sky to the ground. Or some water drip coming out of the tree. This one can can in whatever direction do to do in having the forest more alive.
These 3 video’s are looking coming out good. The big trouble from the 3 I’ll say it’s the city night lights. Which looks to be a pain in the ass. To get the right light and shadow effects.
Yeah Alive is the hardest. I think the last night video I tried was with Luma in the panda hat.
I suppose I see more flaws on MrDj because I went through a lot of frames slower than real time. So they were easier to see.
Hmm yeah I never thought about trying that sweat/wet effect on the trees that’s interesting.