Encounter

If you encounter the unknown you are as strange and mysterious to it as it is to you.

- Description -

Blender 2.8.

I chose eevee to render this. Test renders with cycles and eevee showed little difference in appearance so eevee’s speed was a deciding factor. Also, it was time for me to learn more about it.

Eevee has a bloom effect for glows and easily makes a light cone in the volumetric fog. Cycles cast light on the trees, ground, and into the fog from the light emitting material while eevee did not. I would like to have had that light in the video.

The animated glow material uses a noise node with the distortion factor keyframed between two values. The nodes are: noise - bright/contrast - multiply (color to value) – emission (value to strength) – material output. The bloom effect also gives a glow.

- Sounds -

Night close to a river, crickets and frogs, bird sometimes by Felix Blume, public domain
www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/466955

Deep Cinematic Drone Loop by Alexander CC BY-NC 4.0
www.orangefreesounds.com/deep-cinematic-drone-loop