Needed a break and decided to give Fluent another try after dropping it a while ago - the main reason being some bugs and interface issues I ran into. Pleasantly surprised with the new version, as most of my grievances were fixed and a lot of quality of life improvements and new features were added.

The entire case took me about an hour including rendering out the two images at the end. Definitely going to put this tool back into my belt for future use.

You can see fluent power trip in action here, if you are interested yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/c/CGThoughts/featured

VOLUMETRIC SHADER STUDY - ROLL WITH PRIDE

PRIDE MONTH

Some pride month themed art, because DnD players were the first community I saw being extremely diverse and inclusive. Originally wanted to do this in the early access version of Unreal Engine 5, but I ran into an issue, that made the file crash upon startup without fail. Things like that are to be expected with an early access version, but I still decided to save myself the frustration and did the rendering in blender instead.

EXPERIMENTATION

After finishing the first render, I had some more fun with volumetrics and created this second image.