Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A timelapse covering the process of animating an adventurous Ice Bird flying in a winter forest. We'll be modeling, animating, shading and rendering while using high resolution drone footage to create raytraced reflections in Blender v2.91.

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00:00 Flight of the Ice Bird
01:12 Modeling the bird
02:25 Animating the bird
03:17 Rendering preparations
03:54 Welcome to Norway!
04:33 Creating reflections
05:44 Animating the scene
06:04 Final touches
06:30 Breaking down the breakdown
07:47 Thanks for watching!

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