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Title means two things. I’m currently playing with clouds in Blender by filling meshes with volumetrics and such. But it also means Pinkie’s also playing with the Clouds… Or I guess IN the clouds. Close enough. Might as well try to get used to working with clouds as they are pretty relevant in MLP for Pegasi, whenever I get to modeling wings that is.

Before this went public I decided to try to improve the clouds a bit more as I wasn’t entirely happy with it. In fact, if you want to see how this evolved, here are some early WIPs that slowly progress to what I have now:

slowly progress to what I have now:

Version 1

Version 2

Version 3

Version 4

Version 5 (This is what Patrons saw early)

Version 6

Version 7

Version 8

And Version 9 is where we’re at now. And it took 19 hours to render at 4K with 1024 samples. Shoutouts to clouds. It took way longer than I anticipated, but oh well. Thankfully denoising is a thing, otherwise I would’ve had to render at least 4x as much samples to get it to look somewhat clean in the end.

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