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Bonctober Trailer

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Learning from my mistake on the previous animation this time I’ve imported the environment in chunks. And while it wasn’t used on the final animation, I did make a frustum culling setup for the far away chunks, as everything today it’s powered by geometry nodes.

Witherstorm Attack

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This time I’ve used MiEx which is a much better tool than Mineways, but also much more complex to use, but it allows for importing modded blocks.

The map on this one is very simple since it’s just one house in the middle of nowhere, but then we need a bunch of nowhere to be in the middle of. That led me to importing a bunch more land than necessary, which made the rendering slower. But after this project I’ve promptly started working on a solution to allow importing big environments and also keep rendering times low.

Youtubers vs Realistic Monsters

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This project was a lot of fun on the tech side, there’s a nice split of stuff to do both in Minecraft and Blender.

But how did we do it?

On Minecraft we had to use ReplayMod to capture gameplay with depth data on a sequence of .exr files, and also camera movement data. As for Blender we had to import the Minecraft world into it, I’ve used MineWays which sadly doesn’t support importing meshes from installed mods, it required me to manually add placeholders for the animation pass to work with.