Gloved Maestro - Eternal AscenT

My debut submission titled “Gloved Maestro” for the “Eternal Ascent” International 3D Community Challenge organized by Clinton Jones (Pwnisher ).

I primarily utilised Blender for this 40-hour project (I set a time limit for myself due to studies). I started with the Eternal Ascent template and my old sketch of a pianist character from 2019. After finding suitable references, I modeled, rigged, textured and animated everything in Blender, refining the animation with my own acting reference. After rendering in Blender Cycles (10 h render, 2500 samples at 1080p), I did some colour-correction in After Effects.

My submission was showcased in the All Renders 3D Montage at 2:08:43, went viral on Douyin, and received over 50K views and 1.4K likes on Instagram, for which I'm sincerely grateful.