Mega Man X MAVERICKS Ep. 2 - Storm Eagle (3D fan-film) - a Blender short

It's finally here! After roughly four months, the second episode of my Mavericks series is finally complete.

"Mavericks" is my own fictional series about the events after Mega Man X.
It basically asks the question: What if all the Maverick Bosses survived? Showing their side of the events.

My plan is to create one short 2-3 minute episode for each of the eight mavericks and let all of those come together in 2 final episodes. Those will take months each, so please be patient :)

It was such a great time but also waaaaaay more work than I anticipated :D But I also learned a lot! After 1.5 years of using blender, so far this is my proudest work.

Things I learned during this process and did for the first time:
- rigging
- animating a character
- using 2D video elements
- smoke simulations (thank you embergen)
- sound composition
- optimizing scenes for low render times
- engineering mechanical wings (never again!!!)
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Thank you to the following people that helped me indirectly with this project:

- Ian Hubert: https://www.youtube.com/mrdodobird for all the great tutorials and many assets, which I used in this video!
- Jan van den Hemel: https://www.youtube.com/BlenderSecrets for the awesome Blender Secrets e-book. A must have for every blender user!
- Ponte Ryuurui: https://www.youtube.com/PonteRyuurui for the awesome decals
- Sady Fofana: https://www.artstation.com/vertexpolyfort/store also for many cool decals
- Rachel Frick: https://www.twitter.com/ArtFromRachel for the awesome modelling tutorials

Music: Epidemic Sound - Defend and Resist by Dream Cave
Sound Effects: Epidemic Sound & Sonnis

This is a work of fan fiction using characters from the Mega Man world, which is trademarked by Capcom.
This is a fan project which is 100% created by me and is used in a non-commercial way.
Both Mega Man and Storm Eagle are characters created and owned by Capcom, and I do not claim any ownership over them. No copyright infringement is intended.