Early concept
I knew I wanted to do something with high quality terrain and mountain styled. The idea of adding flowers was considered but was later removed. The idea here was to animate day and night cycle so that the grass and the waterfall would reflect properly
visualized
I originally wanted to animate the grass with a dynamic hair system and the waterfall with a fluid simulation but one frame took many hours to render so I had to solve that in post!
Final
For the final I used many layers of colour grading, I built a fake depth map to create the depth of field. For the grass movement I used a small displacement which gave it the looks of shaking due to wind. The waterfall was just a still animated in Y-space with smoke stock at the bottom.
Project Details
This was my 10th project for Tobu and so I wanted to make it speciall and I believe I succeeded, although after all there is always room for changes and improvement. There was a lot of After Effects work put into this. To date (June 2016) this is among my top 5 biggest AE projects ever!
Tobu (stylized as 7obu) is a music producer from Latvia.
http://www.7obu.com
http://www.youtube.com/tobuofficial
http://www.7obu.com
http://www.youtube.com/tobuofficial