Encounter - Free Version (Patreon)

Here it finally is, my longest animation so far! Clocking in at over 10 minutes, this somewhat unique animation mocks a classic video game boss encounter and likely a somewhat unusual romance!

A huge thank you to all of those on Patreon for enabling me to make this animation! This has taken by far the longest production time yet, due to the sheer length of the animated material. The total production time of this was roughly 8 months, with 6 months being purely animation time. I'm incredibly grateful for my patrons patience on this, as getting this done was an incredibly difficult task. Everything from making the environments, setting up lighting and shading, modelling unique assets, and of course the animation itself was quite time consuming and often drove me to the point where I started to question myself if I'm actually capable of pulling this thing off. Luckily I've had some help by some incredibly talented voice actors who helped bringing these characters to live by perfectly delivering the silly lines I gave them. A huge thank you to Gen, Barry, and Hestia for their incredible enthusiasm on this, it gave me a lot of confidence in this animation and helped driving the light-hearted mood of this film.

This animation also marks the first time I'm using binaural audio to further enhance the more sensual parts. A lot of the audio was recorded with simple every day objects, using a stereo setup of two Neumann mics. Next to the foley work there's also a decent bit of high quality library audio here, as well as some samples from Jeschke's packs that are available over on FA. The music was done in Cubase, using samples from Eastwest's Composer Cloud, as well as a couple of soundfonts and free synths I found online.

Despite the insane length, this animation was natively rendered at 60FPS/4096x2403/32-Bit color to ensure the highest possible quality. Note that the high framerate and lossless 4KHDR versions are only available on the higher Patreon tiers, as these also come with some hefty file sizes. The entire foreground (characters + close environment) was rendered on a single 2080 Ti, while the background (mountain vista + sky) was rendered by a laptop with a GTX 1070. I had to make some visual compromises to get everything rendered in a somewhat timely manner, these were mostly related to light probe resolution and fur density since these effects were pretty brutal on the VRAM. Here's hoping that making compromises will soon be a thing of the past since new GPUs are just around the corner!

Anywho, enough with the technical stuff. I hope you can enjoy the finalized animation! :D

1080p: Link

720p: Link

Bandwidth might get crippled during the first day due to the high demand, apologies in case it's slow!

Zoe voiced by: https://www.patreon.com/GenLightningTurtle

Space Hero voiced by: https://www.patreon.com/baritonev

Radio Communication Voiced by: Hestia042