Create with Clint Weekly Challenge 188 - Spores

Final Result - Video

Summary

Biz	Biz Biz
Author	Project Somedays
Title	Create with Clint Weekly Challenge 188 - Spores
📅 Started	2025-03-25
📅 Completed	2025-03-30
🕒 Taken	~10.5hrs
Render🕒	~8hrs
🤯 Concept	Mario has been taken by the cordycepts
🔎 Focus	Subsurface scattering
🖥️Rig Deets	24GB RAM, 13th Gen Core i9, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

🎓Lessons Learned🎓

• Always always always start with the block out
• Wave modifiers
• Hair particle system
• Subsurface scattering
• I REALLY have to learn how to map Mixamo animations onto models

Resources:

• Mario Model: “Mario obj” https://skfb.ly/6X8o8 by MatiasH290 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. “Rigged Luigi” https://skfb.ly/oVZP8 by Josyug is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
• “Lakitu” https://skfb.ly/oLyK9 by tirrellclark.75 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
• Sewer sound: sewer drain thedapperdan (Freesound) - https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/sewer-drain-23073/
• Goomba: “Goomba” https://skfb.ly/onu8U by thartley is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

Stretch Goals

• Animation: finding Mario
• Animation: seeking comfort
• Animation: taking hat off

TODO:

• Block out scene
• Find Mario
• Rig Mario - first pass
• Position Mario
• Find Luigi? Peach?
• Position
• Model sewer pipe
• Back Lighting
• Water in the pipes
• Drips and ripples in the water
• Sound design?
• Music?
• Goomba model
• Goomba Cordyceps
• Render a gif
• Torch beams?
• Subtle animation on goomba
• Better lighting on Goomba face –> side lighting?

🪵Dev Log🪵

2025/03/25 🕒 0.5 hrs

• Brainstorming and reference collecting

  2025/03/26 🕒 3 hrs

• Blocking out the scene
• Experiments with Subsurface scattering on the placeholder things
• Set scale and restarted
• Modelled a simple torch and constrained it to the spot light
• Luigi model posed (ish)

  2025/03/27 🕒 3 hrs

• Add more geometry around Luigi’s leg
• Pose Luigi with the torch
• Texture Mario
• Find Lakitu model
• Position with torch
• Subsurface scattering on Mario’s skin
• Hair spores on Mario’s skin
• Initial render
• Texure water material
• Subtle Lakitu animation
• Subtle lighting on Lakitu face
• Subtle lighting on Luigi face

  2025/03/29 🕒 4hrs

• Fixed textures of Lakitu Cloud
• Add accidentally creepy eyes on Lakitu
• Subtle animation on Luigi
• Subtle animation of torch
• Subtle animation
• Subtle camera move
• Torch floating in water
• Fixingparameters on water wave
• Final render