A Halloween Encounter - 1080p/60FPS (Patreon)

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Due to patrons reporting issues with downloading files larger than 2GB from MEGA, I've tried my best to keep the file size under this threshold. For the best quality, make sure to download the h.265 versions!

Annnd it’s here! The Encounter Halloween Special… in May! :D

Admittedly, I was hoping to release this animation a few months earlier, but I somehow went overboard again and didn’t stick to my own 2 - 3 minute target for something that is now twice as long. To my surprise, Bunsen was quite a bit more elaborate to animate than Zoe, especially when his full body was in the frame. The rig that Gecky made for Bunsen was quite complex and offers a ton of control to make him incredibly expressive, but having more than 5 times the controller count of Zoe, the time it took to animate him properly was also significantly larger. Here’s hoping that the rig for Chloe will be a bit more streamlined and easier to work with. Just knowing she doesn’t have wings makes me feel a lot calmer already, hah!

Speaking of which, I also wanted to use this animation to announce the upcoming film as well, which will be titled Encounter – Wrath of the Anubian Queen (or Encounter 3). I’m quite excited not only for working with Chloe, but also for an Egyptian scenario since this is something I've always wanted to try! I’ll go a little more in-depth about this episode in an upcoming post next week whatsoever, once I got all the posting-related stuff out of the way.

For now I’m hoping you enjoy this new animation with all its path-traced visuals! Make sure to give the encoding some time as well, as the uploads will probably need a bit to trickle through. Note that the 60FPS versions will likely take until next week since I still need to convert all the sequences.