Campfire Friends Stereoscopic Video

Sit along with a couple of friends around a campfire, enjoying the subtleties of life.

This project, completed in April 2024, aims to capture the serenity of sitting at a campfire with friends. Made entirely in blender, I modeled, textured, and rigged three character models for the friends, and gave them all common actions that I have done when surrounded by friends at a campfire. I placed the viewer in the empty chair so it could be like they were sitting along. I learned and practiced a lot of unique techniques with this project, from intentionally sabotaging UV Maps to get unique styles of texturing to making my own alpha maps for branch textures to cut down on polycounts. I even made stepped lighting in Blender's Cycles renderer, a weird reversal of the raytracing engine. This project was an incredible amount of fun to animate as well, and animating every character helped me fine-tune their personalities and reactions to their environment.