Nightly Forest Pass (Concept Render) (Patreon)

Oh look, fireflies! Haven't seen those before!

A bit of a lighting study for the upcoming animation! The forest pass is getting one last swan song with this nightly scene, in which Zoe will be going around nomfing fireflies, and maybe something else~

This concept took quite a few approaches, as the scene kept turning out way too dark and contrasty in the first attempts. Once I started playing around with volumetric lighting things looked a lot better though! I'd almost say it's going to be a substantial part for this animation, so there's going to be quite the post production pipeline once I move to rendering. Note that the WIP playblasts that I'm going to show during animating won't feature any volumetric lighting, as I need to render this effect on a separate layer, means they're not going to look as fancy as this scene right now.

Here's still hoping that NVidia releases their upcoming GPUs soon, as it would allow me to bump up the quality once more. I still think the scene could use a bit more foliage detail...