Скачать или смотреть Drone flying in forest animation (4K) - Rendered in Blender 4.0 (Cycles)

This is a random animation test of a drone flying through a realistic forest. I did the drone and camera animation, but did not create the drone model myself as it was purchased from TurboSquid.

Watch the BTS / techniques of this project here:    • Drone flying in forest animation - Blender...  

My brother used the 3D model of the drone in a commercial project and I wanted to have a go with it in Blender and create an environment to animate it in. I used Geo Scatter and a few biome packs like Forestation and Grassblade. I also used The Grove 2.0, a really fun addon for creating trees. I added some subtle volumetric scattering but did it in post using the ZDepth pass, compositing it all together in Blender's compositor.

Render time: An average of roughly 3 minutes per frame in Full HD 1920x1080 (Cycles render engine, 4096 maximum samples per pixel), so about 10 and a half hours for the entire animation to render. Output as 32 bit float EXRs. Rendered using about 4.5GB (out of 24GB max) of VRAM on my ASUS Strix RTX 3090 graphics card.

For GPU rendering, the entire scene must be able to fit into VRAM. If not, system RAM is used and CPU rendering is the only option. CPU rendering this scene would have taken roughly 8 times as long (about 44 hours for the entire animation with the same render settings), even with my very good desktop CPU, the 16 core AMD 5950X. So when possible, I render on the GPU :)

Used spatial denoising in Blender, then Neat Video temporal denoising to clean up splotchy areas. Used Topaz Video AI to upscale to 4K, Then used Dehancer Pro in Resolve for a bit of a film look :)