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They immediately regretted their decision after realizing the incredible snow-moving power of her hind legs.


I started working on this back in December, but if I had more motivation I probably could’ve had this done mid January or maybe even my originally planned Christmas release. Either way, I learned a lot while making it.

The ground was made using the new adaptive subdivision feature, but I really had to put a limit on quality because of how big the plane is it costs a lot of VRAM.

Due to the scale of everything, my original of plan of using new volumetric cloud methods failed because apparently trying to render massive volumetric objects crashes Blender instantly. Instead, I used a sneaky method similar to the one used in this video using a Triangle Fan Cylinder, lifting the bottom center vertex and sticking a camera that was scaled down 100x inside it.

I learned how to make some nice subsurface scattering shaders and while it's not really visible in this scene, I was able add it to the pony models and I also used it on all of the snow.

The snow particles were made using the Molecular Add-On and Metaballs.

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Pony Models by CreatorOfPony
Houses and most of the other objects by discopears

Rendered using Blender Cycles v2.78 at 2000 samples

Render times using a GTX 970:

2D 3840x2160: 4h12m
3D 2560x1440: 4h00m
VR 3D 4096x2048: 5h11m

Clouds were rendered separately using SheepIt Render Farm

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Versions available:

2D 3840x2160: See Download
3D 2560x1440: sta.sh/0fgz5x953j0
VR 3D 4096x2048: sta.sh/01nuavibyw4m
360° Viewer: littlstar.com/photos/53da61ed

If you want more VR pictures I also made a simplified VR version of my Christmas picture from last year.

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