Video: Luminescence

Rachel created this animation of growing plants. To me, it’s like she has visualised their ‘life force’ streaming through them. Very cool.

I actually had the idea for this animation last year, but as I was just starting out Blender I really tried and failed miserably at the first attempt of this animation. I had just found out you could manipulate emissions materials with masks and it really perked my interest and gave me lots of ideas. So I worked on other pieces of artwork in Blender over the year and I learned the software pretty well, but the flower animation idea was always stuck in the back of my mind. This last month I was finally got to working on it again and it is now my very first finished animation. I asked my friend Ninth Parallel for his music to play in the background and I think that was the best decision I made as I love the music in the video.

Not much else to say though. I did develop a lot of interesting solutions and methods for making those stylised materials and I learned a lot more about Blender through the process of making this.