Description
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Fractal animation rendered with Mandelbulb3D (_Folding1 + Amazing Box)
Render time : about 3 days (High DE value created artifacts)
Soundtrack made with Digitakt (Anasine waveform + Elektron magic)
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Back to basics : the Amazing Box. I had a lot of fun working on this animation!
My previous video was a Kleinian in 720p (these are calculation expensive especially when there are spirals) and I had a few requests to make it bigger, so I decided the next one would be in 1080p. But I don't have a render farm and I didn't want to wait for 3 weeks, so I had to select a fast formula, the Amazing Box being great for this. I threw in some pre-transform to get some extra params to tweak, and I used a high DE Stop and raystep multiplier to make calculation even faster. I know the Abox bears quite high values without suffering too much. I didn't even use reflections! I knew there would be artifacts but it turned out there were more than expected (the yellow edges in the second half). I noticed it during the rendition, but as the calculation was super fast (less than 2 minutes per frame) I decided to let it go anyway. While finishing the rendering I grabbed my Elektron box to make some music to go with it, and I just used a track I had created a few days ago at a friend's place based on an extensively tweaked single sine waveform. The sound is a bit harsh and oppressing, but I think it fits the graphics quite well.
Fun fact: I originally created the video to be played backwards (start with zoom out), but finally used the "reverse keyframes order" because it was nicer in this direction.
Hope you'll enjoy it!