Absolutely nothing to talk about (Patreon)

UPD: public nudity warning. If you saw it you saw it.Hi.I was thinking about making a weekly post, but then realized there’s really nothing to talk about right now. I remember wanting to talk about Halloween and some other stuff, but I think that train is gone and it’s not really relevant anymore.Who do you think will be the pair?

The last couple of days I was mostly focused on preparing models, updating banners, and trying some stuff in Fusion. Very powerful compared to Blender’s compositor, but the fact that you can’t drag to duplicate a node is a ridiculous thing to have. Also, just using it requires so much more knowledge and understanding of the topic.

You can clearly tell that Blender’s one was built for retards - you don’t need to know anything. It’s very easy to navigate, understand, and just a pleasure to work with. I love it, while Fusion is just… meh. If it wasn’t for the rich nodes library and real-time playback, I wouldn’t even see a point in using it.

This is the raw render of the preview you could've seen on X. Let's make it better.

Same image, but with a different aspect ratio and some work done in Fusion. I like the purple one more.

And this is the node tree to get there.

Looks big, but not really. It’s actually very simple. If you group nodes into groups it would be easier to look at them, but basically all it's doing is a couple of things:1. Color correction, like fog color.2. Background effects, like defocus.3. Foreground effects, like softening Yennefer's edges to blend her better with the bg. This actually makes a massive difference when you toggle it. Without it you can see how sharp the foreground layer is, it doesn't really blend.

4. Animated flares/smoke.5. Merging all together and adding final post processing.

What else? Nothing. Just keep doing the next animation and I will post more about it if there will be a need.o7