Posted this on r/hollowknight first because I had zero karma.
FAQ:
Rendered with Blender Cycles. Rendering time 90 seconds at 4860*2160 pixels using an RTX5090
Painting over and finishing done in Photoshop
Scene has 3.8 million faces. No my pc did not catch fire this scene is actually quite light thanks to using instances.. The Blend file is only 16MB.
I work using a wacom Intuos pro tablet and stylus no mouse
Credit goes to me TJ Foo Instagram Artstation
Wallpaper Imgur links:
4k
no crop
Reddit link for the BRITS
What 2 month with Skong does to a MF
I spent 2 weeks playing it non stop to finish it
2 weeks? I spent a whole month
Then your blender creation must be even more impressive surely.
If only I knew how to use blender
I tried to learn once, and quickly realized why "3D artist" is a full-time job
"Why won't the glazing stick to the donuts?!"
I hate that I see exactly what you mean
wait, how are you guys playing the game?? its not out yet
They had a demo at gamescom and I stole it and replayed it for a month straight
You have the wrong flair, Denier.
A month? I spent 2 months
4 days!
Holy shit.
Easily some of the dopest shit ive ever seen.
Really gives you that sense of scale and wonder that the bugs must feel when walking into it and seeing it for the first time. I imagine its not dissimilar to when peasants went to some place like the vatican for the first time - that this is a holy place. It must be. How could simple
menbugs build such wonderThis shit was indeed, holy.
Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000
TC hire this man. For what, I don't know, but he needs to be hired for something
They should let me take control of their tweets
I thought E113 was in charge of their account.
He is. Right now he's tricking us all into thinking Silksong released already.
For a silksong movie with 3D backgrounds mixed with 2D animated characters, like some animes do. Would be epic af
What?? I usually only make fruit juice in them! I didn't know you could do this
ba dum tss
I wanted to see some baddies, show me a menacing choir member lol it’s a badass render
I'll give them thicc dump truck asses in 8k ray tracing
What are you doing step-trobbio?
Well this post is about to blow up. GGs OP, this is crazily impressive.
Edit: OP the 4k version isn't viewable in the UK. Is this because we have to prove we're adults in order to view something this god damn sexy?
ere u go govna https://i.redd.it/pjj8pms8236g1.jpeg
Cheers m8, u got a loicence to make stuff this good?
https://preview.redd.it/ojf8rmucpd6g1.jpeg?width=497&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15aae21fbf28e767caf2931fb8993ee21c830f31
This is the coolest Silksong fan work I've seen.
It's amazing
r/mynewwallpaper
ok, now do the whole game.
It looks somewhat procedural. Did you do this with a geo nodes setup? (especially given the 16mb file size)
No I hate learning geo nodes lol. I grouped the building parts into instances and duplicated them around the scene many times. This saves a ton of memory. I can abuse this trick for the citadel because of how many repeated structures it has.
Do you have some saved tutorials on how to do instancing and improvements to render times? Or I can just trust YouTube search and use some similar query- id love to learn how to do large cenaries that dont cost too much on power
If you have a large group of objects put them in a collection and you can turn it into a collection instance. You can easily duplicate them around the scene without blender shitting itself. For single objects, use alt-D instead of shift-D when duplicating so the copies are all linked. To save time on renders you can check out Blenderguru's video here
holy guarana, that Alt D shift D tip I had completly forgotten
I flip back and foward on them, and-
SO THAT's why when I am doing material changes in certain objects others changed but not all of the similar objects, because I switched alt and shift consistently
thank you so much, I'll check the video in due time
That is absolutely spectacular, oh my god.
That's insane
Aw man, now I wanna play a full 3d exploration game of the citadel, it looks soo good on the outside, imagine the depth on the inside, amazing work!
We at the Citadel honor you.
Its only the outside right?
The inside is too scary for me
https://preview.redd.it/sbkpfprrsd6g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bba99dda4554bea18b1ecdeafdcf5524d825132
.. Type of shit Scott Cawthon would model for a 10 second cutscene ..
o-oh my god
I don't know what's more impressive, the rendering on display here or the fact the 2D drawing in-game looks so similar to a 3D ray traced version of it-
You did good!
I'm literally at a loss of words.... This is incredible🥹
Best of luck to you
that’s not the citadel of song
OMFG. I just realized. You know all these people that turn 2D games into 3D, right? Imagine they start making a 3D Darksouls style Hollowknight. I'd gobble this up soooo quickly.
Holy fuck. Can you make Grand Mother Silk in Blender? For reference of course.
Abshawlutely peak
This is sickÂ
This is fucking incredible dude. TC HIRE THEM NOW
Miyazaki really outdid himself on this one.
holy shit my jaw dropped
Oh, DLC name drop, can't wait to get slapped by omen bugs and power up with scadusong fragments
Final boss is Purer Hollower Knight-Vessel but this time, Zote is controlling him by pulling on his antlers like Ratatouille
New desktop wallpaper alert :O
Incredible!!
I would love to see this 3d model in orthographic perspective
Absolute radiance
This is so fucking peak
That's beautiful omg
This is so perfect I could immediately hear the music in my head
The final boss fight must be Promised Consort Khann
The funny things is that this is still the interior of the citadel, that's how stupidly massive that shit is.
Pretty sure this is by far the best 3D render I have ever seen for both Hollow Knight and Silksong
Vi todo tu progreso que subiste a Instagram, es impresionante todo el empeño y esfuerzo que metiste en está obra de arte, realmente es hermoso!
teach me your ways magic man
This made me realize that I've been using default win10 wallpaper for over 5 years, until now.
Also makes me want to play some Warhammer lol.
Gorgeous.
WTH this is so fucking amazingÂ
wow the detail is amazing & the lighting is perfect
I can see why the bugs wanted to make the pilgrimage.
This is so cool i made it my new wallpaper
Well now we need this as a vrchat world…..
You fucking what. This us impressive as hell my GOD
Your blender video is amazing. Was so beautiful to see its construction! Well done!!
Damn you beat me to it 🔥🔥🔥, looks very good
Impressive ! That's so cool ! Well done ! (And I'm impressed your PC render it so well, but maybe it's because I don't know Blender and render well xD)
NEED a gif of this with void particles rising up. I love animated backgrounds so much lol
This is incredible. Amazing job!
my gtx 1080 would explode just thinking about this
Bruh. Nice!
One of my favorite details about the Citadel is that it's true purpose is hidden in plain sight. Look underneath the fluff, the grandiose gilding and gothic spikes and you can see that it's just a pipeworks. It's a cluster of infrastructure to a sustain a giant machine.
Fucking incredible.
Twonof my favorite universes, noice
You just peaked
ASS
JIM
warhammer 40k energy tbh
Holy shit that's the metalest thing I've ever seen
It’s so beautiful
Whoaaa this is crazy good 🤯👌
I wonder what those giant ass pipes are for
Thanks now youve got me into a rabbit hole of making silksong x warhammer. Thank you u/Joysbitch
Absolutely beautiful jesus
I thought I was about to read that this was Minecraft for a hot second. This is still insanely impressive regardless.
Silksong if Fromsoft made it.
I said this in the other thread, but I saw it on IG/TT before here, and it was fucking amazing. Kudos
It's looks like wh 40k
This will do nicely for my next two week minecraft phase