i watched this beautiful animation by Sébastien Rouxel on vimeo, and decided he had to try and remake it in 3D, this way i could get a better understanding of the animation process that his creator followed.
The modeling and rigging process took one day, for the biped rig i used advancedSkeleton_v3.86 and the ship’s rig was made by hand.
for the animation proces i copied the posing and timing, and then brought it to spline just making sure to keep the arcs as fluid as possible.
Fire and smoke were really fun to do with little geometry and animated colors in shaders.
The final render was just an occlusion + base color + wireframe all mixed together.
