Mobile VR users rejoice! Your time has come! (Patreon)

We've done it!  We've created our first non-garbage VR video and boy was it a huge undertaking.  We got close with a previous attempt but after a week long render session (yup that's right over 150 straight hours of rendering) but it wasn't quite there and the setting selection was terrible.  So we went back to the drawing board.

I spent about the next 2 weeks living in Blender and Youtube tutorials.  I made an iced donut and a waving flag.  I consulted one of the admins at VRPorn, a couple Blender animators, a couple Unity programmers, some MMD artist and MDM conversion specialist.  Then I studied Blender VR rendering techniques, general rendering optimization, video editing, material creation/management, texturing, etc.

Finally I was ready to give it another shot.  I rolled up my sleeves, called on our suedo-mascot Izumi and had her dance around a little to test things out.  The results were great, once everything was ironed out.  i missed a bit of clipping near the beginning, but hopefully that won't distract too much from the potential here.

Anyway, you guys can look forward to many more videos like this one.  The plan is to release these bi-weekly, either on the same schedule as the larger releases or leap frogging them on the off weeks.  Hopefully we can get to weekly releases as we get more accustomed to the workflow and find more efficient methods of production, but this is very exciting. 

 I've avoided the more popular MMD VR production method, because I think it leaves a lot to be desired, the SFM method because the models have to be so low poly, usually resulting in some weird genital animations and HQ Blender due to experience obstacles, time to create animations and lack of available animators.  This method however is a very nice middle ground / stepping stone on our way to the TOP!