SDM - caustical (Official Release)

one of the longest songs i've made

design story:
so after i made flooded i wanted to make a more realistic caustic shader and came across a wonderful tutorial using geometry (something i've never used in blender before). it looks very nice, especially the colours being a bit further apart from each other. some points i do want to improve on in the future are the obvious mistakes such as the caustics clipping through the sign and also the weird square around the tunnel. i also want to improve the tunnel because that was a mess, tweak the sign a bit, make smaller caustics because i wanted to get a gigantic feel but that's one of the reasons it doesn't feel like that and in the future just use gobos. unless they turn out like utter trash, they'll be so much better since i wouldn't have to wait 3 years for 1 render. the song i'm also a bit disappointed and frustrated in because of the bass. i think the rest is awesome and works well with each other but the bass just didn't do it for me. this is something i'll just let go this time though because i felt like it wasn't worth the hassle (and because it's my birthday on the day of premiere :)

lore story:
In a test room filled with water, you swim around looking for an exit. The tunnel brings you back to the entrance and the entrance goes to the tunnel. Going up transports you into something unexpected, darkness. You end up swimming out of the tunnel. You notice the water is pure, the sign is impossibly clean and there is no algae to be seen. This is the trap, not whatever they said could be in here.

credits:
ableton live 11~12 lite