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"Mr. Blue Sky" Salamander Dance

Overview

This was my first large animation project. It started with an inexplicable motivation to recreate the character Bruni, the fire spirit from Disney's Frozen 2 (pictured left). I originally only planned to make a short 10-15s test video, but before I knew it I had over a minute of animation.

Bruni's character model was made from scratch, rigged by hand, and procedurally textured. The set/location was also made by hand and uses CC0-licensed textures. The animation took about 500 hours to render on a GTX 1060 (laptop.)

The leaves were animated using Blender's old particle physics system. They suffer from many artifacts that were likely avoidable but beyond my reach at the time. Nowadays I would approach them very differently.

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