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Part four of Broken Wings, in which Alex has another run-in with Rainbow Dash at Sweet Apple Acres.

Turns out a little bit of compositing and post-processing goes a long way. I would have loved to use the hair simulation on all of the characters in this scene (especially Applejack), but due to performance limitations I was unable to get hair dynamics to work on more than two characters. The longer (and more technical) explanation is that closeup shots require a higher particle density to look decent, and that higher particle density results in a ridiculous amount of memory usage (24GB+ per frame) when building the BVH.

Huge thanks to my amazing partner Cirque for the advice on posing! The silhouette scene wouldn’t look anywhere near as good without his expert advice. Check out his deviant art page here!