Spooky Dragon

Had a random idea to show a possessed golden dragon statue in the middle of nowhere inside an abandoned structure full of treasure

Supplies

Step 1: Scene Building

After giving my project some thought, I didn't have a great enough picture in my head to make it from scratch so i used free use models from SketchFab and started building, recoloring, retexturing etc. All with blender.

List of used models (The dragon might be wrong I don't know)

Step 2: Better Colors + Eye Animation

Before adding more of the good stuff I realized "Some of these items need emission" so I worked on that, animated the eyes changing color and making the moon glow in a way that was favorable. Ended up being tricky so I used some simple lights to help out on that.

Step 3: Sky & Moon Animation

Took a while to learn how to make a simple time-lapse from day to night but I ended up doing it and thanks to path animations I managed to animate the moon to where it would move to the window once it got dark enough.

Step 4: Fog + Final Result

I needed to add some fog inside the structure so after a bit of work with nodes I ended up building it with little to no problems and after a little bit more tinkering I was able to finish. :D