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National League Yearly Batting Average Champions - 1876 to 2022
My latest Blender animation project, which showcases all the MLB National League batting champions from 1876 all the way through 2022. Each champion is displayed with their very own pillar, with the height of each pillar correlates to their batting average for that year, along with their team flag flying above, the year, their name, and batting average stats in gold lettering on each of their pillars. The higher the average the taller the pillar is.
This is a follow up to my American League version I did earlier, only this time it was much more taxing to complete. The history of the National League is longer than the American League with seasons going back to 1876. So I had to add 25 more pillars and flags to this animation. With the added pillars and flags, I ended up having to add an additional 2,600 frames to the sequence. Way too many!!!! I first tried rendering it in the Cycles Engine, but it would have taken about 7 days to render it all. And plus, during the first few hundred frames, the flag seem to not wave as often, sometimes freezing without any changes, from one frame to the next. So I decided to switch over to using the Eevee rendering engine instead, which of course renders faster, but doesn't quite give you the quality results as the Cycles engine does ( better shadows and light bounces ).
All in all, the Eevee render took about a little over 30 hours to crunch the 7,600 frames total. Yet I still got uneven and jittery results on the waving flags. This is even after changing the settings to the wind simulator three different times! Anyways, at this point, I was just desperate to get a finished product, and this is what I ended up with. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but maybe next time, I can figure out a way to keep the flag waving smoothly. I tried baking in the physics results multiple times, but each time I did, Blender would crash at the end, and I would have to close and reopen the application, only to find out all my baking was gone.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy this animation. It was long week of frustration for me to get it done, but I learned a lot in doing so. This NL version, I made the names, dates and batting averages much larger on each pillar so as to read better when displayed on smaller devices. It all looks great on a big screen TV, but most people are probably watching on their phones and tablets.
Check out the American League version here: https://youtu.be/UA3skEN5n7w
Music: Youtube Audio Library: "I Had A Feeling" by TrackTribe.
This project was created using Blender 3.4.1 and iMovie.
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