Fire Princess breathes "life" to candles while playing Für Elise on a magical floating piano.
First time trying out real DOF in Blender, trying to put more emphasis with lighting and finally having Fire Princess actually do some real fire magic.
Baking hair physics took about 8 hours, baking fire physics took about a day, actual rendering took over a week. I hope I can afford more computers someday.
I did make extensive use of the addons I wrote so while they did take a long time to make at least they are useful for making animations faster.
Just to clarify on the credits, I animated everything, I made nearly all of the models, including the furry anthropomorphic fox known as the Fire Princess, the piano and the environment (aside from the trees in the background), I made the Fire Princess textures (aside from a few textures), I rigged the Fire Princess and piano models, I handled any simulations, I wrote the addon that I used to generate the piano playing and the notes that slide into the piano, I wrote the addons I needed to improve on Blender's animation tools, I did the simulations, I wrote my own script to render on multiple computers and so much more.
I also built the computers I used to animate and render this, though that happened years ago now and I haven't been able to afford to build anything newer.
If you wish to support me in improving my content (and for future piano animations) then check out my Patreon! Every donor gets a reward including being credited in my future videos for the higher-tier donors!
