This was my entry for EPHEC, where it placed 3rd. It's also one of the pieces I'm happiest with from 2025.
I wanted the whole edit to feel beautiful and clean in both its rhythm and emotion, so I held back on the color grade. My grades are usually pretty heavy-handed, hahaha.
Blender kept crashing while I was making the opening grass scene, but finishing it felt really rewarding. If I had to pick things I'm not happy with, they'd be the clipping in Sage's death scene and the rather flat lighting in the last scene.
The opening shot takes inspiration from Drgz's Flourish. His edit is great—you should go watch it too.