Ships ? Where are the rooks ? Is it the russian version ? (http://www.shakki.net/kerhot/KemTS/nap-pieces.htm)
The ground isn’t even ?
Arms and legs ???!
There is a white pawn among the black ones (a spy ?) !
Say ? Why are the white pawns all crazy ? One is sailing, three are doing trick on top of a holy knight, and three are breakdancing (is it because the white Freedy Mercurqueen is singing ? That would explain the sleeping dog bishops)
At least the black pieces seem to have kept their brains, the two dogs bishops are following the king and protecting his back, while the pawns act defensively.
… But thoses holy knights … we don’t talk about them …
I created an animation of the second version .
I am currently at the end of section 5, so this animation is a supplementary training. After that I will begin section 6.
I didn’t change any of the pieces/board, except for the material (because I went from Blender Render to Cycle render).
Here goes nothing :
24 FPS, 300 Frames, 50% of 1080p, 256 samples
There is still some noise, especially near the end, but 256 samples was the compromise I made between rendering time and quality. It took 6H to render @256 samples (and around 6-7H to animate)
I am not yet chasing perfection (but rather getting used to animate) but I think it still looks good enough . What do you guys think ?
Do you get what is going on in the scene ? (Especially the 3rd scene)
Do you like it ?
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FIRST BLOOD ! 
