[OUTDATED] DOJO DUELS: NightZero VS. D.O.I.L.

Edit 6/10/2026: This video is now considered outdated due to changes in Night's powerset, and details of his backstory. The revamp will be soon be made public. Plus, I realized how I want to change some of the tone of my animations going forwards. Welp this was a project that went on way longer than intended. I originally started this in June with the hopes of finishing in mid-August, but due to wavering motivation and busy college schedules, my workflow became inconsistent. It's only when I tried to get this out for the last week of the current duel season did I see progress pick up again, but alas, the animation came out a week or two later than I would've liked. Either way, I finally finished this, and I can now stop thinking about it every waking moment. Out of all my current animations I've posted, I think this is my best one thus far. My demo was something I made when I was first learning Blender Animation, my previous duel wasn't up to my own standards given how it was a 3-day challenge (that actually took 4 days), but this animation? I actually forced myself to learn more of Blender when I did this project. I watched tutorials on how to do my own textures, a smoke simulation, as well as lava-liquid simulations. The only asset I used that wasn't mine was the usual 'Sword With Cover' by Panther5 on Sketchfab (Panther's asset was used as a base that I edited). About 60-70% of the animation was done on my old, outdated PC that could barely run Blender, but I now have a better laptop that can do it's own renders. Unfortunately, I had run into some driver issues that was causing errors in rendering that also caused a mass delay in getting this project out. It didn't help that I had complicated it for myself by stretching the animation across different scenes/locations/files. Regardless, it was worth it, even if my folders are now a mess. Regardless, I think I'm FINALLY getting out of my experimental phase of Blender and actually am starting to use it to make the type of projects I want to. While looking back on the animation now, I did end up regetting my music choice here. Oh well, I now know what type of music I wanna use going forwards. CREDITS: Sword base for Night's Sword: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/sword... DoilJK's YouTube:    / @doiljk   DoilJK's Dojo: https://hyunsdojo.com/user.php?u=doil... Far Too Loud: http://fartooloud.com   / fartooloud     / far_too_loud     / far-too-loud      / fartoolouduk     / fartooloud   Micheal Ghelfi Studios (Ambience):    / @michaelghelfistudios   http://bit.ly/Patreon-MG http://bit.ly/PayPal-MG http://bit.ly/Discord-MG http://bit.ly/FacebookMG- http://bit.ly/Twitter-MiG http://bit.ly/Twitch-MG http://bit.ly/Instagram-MG http://bit.ly/Instagram-Pers SPECIAL THANKS TO: DoilJK for waiting for so long Ultixma for initial render help Developers.Blender for bug support The devs of Blender Stratus Omnidad