Journey to the Cathedral

[Don Whitaker]

Here are a couple of my most recent Mandelbulb 3D animations.

Journey to the Cathedral is a timelapse screencast I captured as I was searching out a new 'filming location'. Sort of like a picture-in-picture effect as I display various renders throughout the process.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/bjtL1nSnntE&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/bjtL1nSnntE&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

And here is a slow fly-over I created of the same Amazing Surface scene. I thought this one would never finish rendering.   1920x1080 at 2x antialias

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/pAPyjPGqw78&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/pAPyjPGqw78&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

Here's the .m3a file if you'd like to take a better look https://www.dropbox.com/s/ll32h7171aqrhhj/MandevlVerse-Cathedrals-anim-final.m3a

[taurus]

I thought this one would never finish rendering.   1920x1080 at 2x antialias

yes, that's insane for a cpu renderer, but you tweaked out a tremendous image quality.
the starting sculpture looks familiar to me. You had a similar still frame?

nice work!

[weavers]

Thank you, thank you Master a pleasure be truly extraordinary

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[Don Whitaker]

Thank you taurus66 and weavers.

Yes, I posted a still image before I started rendering. I was pretty happy with the results, but I think my next project will be lo-rez.

[Dinkydau]

Nice video

[schizo]

Oh wow.  That was really amazing. The surface looks like solid rocks and the lightning and shadows are perfect. A surreal world somewhere in space.

[Don Whitaker]

Thank you Dinkydau and schizo. I did spend extra time on the lighting for this one, I'm glad it paid off. 

[trumanbrown]

Absolutely beautiful fly-over Don.  Great lighting and atmosphere.  AA is definitely a monumental test of patience, but the end result is usually worth it, as in this case.