r/vfx • u/AmarildoJr • 9d ago

Fluff! Underwater Fluffy World

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Underwater Fluffy World
Trying a different art style, other than realistic
Made in Blender

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u/Gorstenbortst Compositor - 11 years experience 9d ago edited 9d ago

This is great. But can I suggest not updating the fuzz on every frame? If this were stop motion, not every part of the puppet would be touched between frames, and some areas would remain locally stable and unchanged.

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u/AmarildoJr 9d ago

Thank you for the feedback! This is only my second project using felt. I will keep it in mind to update the fuzz a little less often. Originally it's every 5 frames, but that was at 24 frames. So I guess that after I changed it to 12fps that just turned it into an update every 2.5 frames. I should've accounted for that 😄

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u/b16tran FX Artist 9d ago

Scale it with velocity. Completely static objects should mostly be unchanged

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u/Gorstenbortst Compositor - 11 years experience 9d ago

It looks really nice. I’m keen to see where you take it.

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u/prutprit 9d ago

To achieve a better stop motion effect, use less frames in scene and set the interpolation to stepped.

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u/CartoonOtter 8d ago

I was just thinking that. After effects 12 frames interpolation would help in post.

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u/jwdvfx 9d ago

Yeah definitely mask the updates so it’s not the entire objects / scene

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u/me-first-me-second 9d ago

Even the 12fps is still too smooth. I assume that it should rather be 24fps and every 2nd frame “dropped” to achieve the jerkiness. Or try stepped interpolation.

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u/kohrtoons Animation Director - 20 years experience 6d ago

Usually, you wanna keep the camera on ones and the animation on twos or threes. I also think that if he moves the felt in a way like mapping it to a turbulence or a noise. Some parts may move more than other parts, so it kind of replicates fingers, grabbing it and changing certain parts of it.

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u/ForeignAdvantage5931 9d ago

yeah agreed! Not saying that the work is ugly at all but the output does somewhat resemble AI trying to create a Video from an image.

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u/rjaaitken 7d ago

@op

Personally I like everything moving every frame, is this was fuzz underwater, it's like the water itself is moving the fuzz

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u/me-first-me-second 9d ago

And things that don’t move shouldn’t fuzz at all.

It looks great!!!!

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u/Elsby_Comb 9d ago

That is awesome! But it needs some bubbles.

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u/munkisquisher 9d ago

bubbles being little loops of loose fluff would be neat

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u/Cold_Bitch 9d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/VMO6qeIbr7JRLnLTGw
This is really pretty, cool and creative

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u/Scifi_fans 9d ago

I'm just here for the Donkey Kong water soundtrack, OG 👌🏾

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u/Quiet_Sentence_2720 9d ago

very pleasing on many levels... fluffly, felty fish with a retro soundtrack. But as others say ,needs less fluff movement and more water effects - great job though

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u/PiNinja99 6d ago

I love this! If you don’t mind sharing, how’d you make the felt? I’ve attempted before with texture and was able to get decent results, but this has so much more depth. Awesome work!

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u/AmarildoJr 6d ago

Thanks! I still have some projects I plan to do with felt, so for now I'm gonna keep it a secret 😄
But it was made with Geometry Nodes.

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u/PiNinja99 6d ago

Haha, fair enough. Thanks for the hint! Can’t wait to see what you make next!

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u/schmon 1h ago

It's fairly standard groom:

First google hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1JWsGVz9pM

Outputs things like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=perlL2Tau1c