A breakdown of creating a VFX animation

A step by step process to go from an empty template to the final render for the Infinite Journeys community render challenge

Christian Behler
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readMar 7, 2022

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An image with two sides. Both show the same railcar at different steps of the process. The left side shows a few rough grey shapes and the right side shows the final render with all details, colors, and lighting.
From the first blockout on the left to the final render on the right. Image by author.

Infinite Journeys is the fourth installment of one of the biggest community render challenges where thousands of artists start with a basic template and create amazing pieces of art from…

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M. Sc. Computer Science and Physics, Indie Game/Software/Web Developer, Writer, 3D Artist, and too many other interests. https://pingpoli.medium.com/membership