Some Test Animations in Blender Made into a Music Video

Saturday, 07 November 2009 17:05 Last Updated on Monday, 08 February 2010 16:35 Written by Administrator

I wanted to share a music video that I made while doing some tests in Blender. I am currently planning for an upcoming animated short using Blender and I wanted to do some tests first to see if I was going to be able to use some of the features I wanted. Also, I wanted a little bit of practice first to iron out some of the wrinkles in the workflow before I got into the larger animation. The result of these tests is this music video. I do wish that I could have spent a little more time on the actual animation part but I needed to move on to getting ready for the animated short.

Animated Music Video Created with Blender from Jason LaDere on Vimeo.

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Here are some of the things I was testing:

Blender's cloth simulation
The Miku character rig
Camera movement and scripts
Blender's node compositing system
Syncing animation to music
The workflow from Blender to Premeire Pro
Blender's library, linking, and proxy system
My new DrQueue renderfarm setup

Some statistics:

The video is 5760 frames long
Only 4517 frames were rendered (some frames get used more than once in the video)
Only 2231 frames were animated (some animations are rendered from multiple camera angles)
There are 5 blender files and 15 scenes
It took about 19 hours (real time, not cpu time) to render
Average time for a single frame to render was 90 seconds