Was itching to try and make fake lightening in blender. Its a lot of fun building up a bolt of lightening, and using the displacement modifier to get that electric jitter. Pairing it with an emission shader, and a rigged lattice made a pretty cool looking bolt of lighting. although it looked a little janky from wireframe view, since I'm switching from transparent to emission on the fly, to get that flash effect. In retrospect, I think I could have gotten away with just shrinking the while lattice rig away. But putting it in the reflection made it look a lot prettier, more ambient. Definitely not my best work but I want to improve it when I get the computer power. This was, as i said before, done in blender.

Animation - Jordan Cruz
2021