Another insides test with Fluids

Looks like our Space Hero will be going on a bit of a journey through Zoe's insides, oh dear!

Here's another test with some fancy bifrost fluids for the later half of the internal scene, which will take us into Zoe's tube-like intestines! Since endo and full-tour have been a request for many years now, I thought I'd finally include it in an animation, even if it's more so hinting at it, instead of literally going all the way. I exported two versions here. The first one has more murky looking water as light that filters through it gets muddled, where the second one has a more clear water approach. Somewhat leaning towards version two here since the clear water is a bit more appealing and a lot faster to render, hah!

I've always wanted to do a lighting scenario where it looked like part of the lighting was shining through the muscular tissue from the outside, and since this animation is finally using full on path tracing, I've went ahead with that here. I also worked on a version that simulated a villi-like surface through x-gen, but didn't end up liking the results too much. AFAIK, it's impossible to have an x-gen description follow and animated displacement map in Maya, which made me lose a layer of animation, making the whole thing look a tad dull. Maybe I'll go back to it and give it another shot in the future, for now I didn't want to end up spending an entire month on this. /.w.\

I'm hoping to have another playblast with proper animation out by the end of the year, but note that things are a bit irregular this month due to Christmas and all the festivities. There's also another thing I've been struggling with that concerns the taxation of Patreon income and how my country handles it, which has taken up a ton of my energy. I've been in touch with Patreon's support regarding this and might share some findings some time next year, as I think it might safe other creators from the hell my accountant and me have been through in that regard.

Not the most christmassy note to end this post now isn't it? Welp, I hope yer all having a mighty-fine time with your friends and family! Thank you so much for your amazing support and Merry Christmas, ahhhhhh! <3