VIDEO GEN IS DEAD — 3D aircraft animation study

Personal production study — no client or brand affiliation.

I built an original vertical aircraft sequence to prove a repeatable path from scriptable Blender assets to an edited social-format master.

The constraint was simple: direct the motion instead of depending on a one-shot video generator. The scene needed editable aircraft, readable flight geography, controllable cameras, repeatable effects, and a delivery pipeline that could survive revision.

Two original low-poly aircraft assets with reusable Blender and FBX sources

A 48-second vertical master at 1080 × 1920, 30 fps, and 1,440 frames

Keyframed flight paths and camera choreography

A shattering title, cockpit/gunsight view, contrails, tracers, smoke, and hit effects

Blender-to-Unreal import and scale validation in a real-time proof scene

An editable Kdenlive timeline and reproducible Python/PowerShell build tooling

Python scripts construct and revise the aircraft, scene elements, animation, and render configuration in Blender. Review renders make composition and motion problems visible before the full export. The aircraft are also exported to Unreal for real-time scene assembly and scale checks. Kdenlive handles the final editorial path.

The project preserves editable sources and multiple scene revisions rather than treating the rendered video as the only deliverable.

The retained production archive includes the final 48-second H.264 master, editable Blender scenes, reusable aircraft files, Unreal project data, FBX exports, Kdenlive timelines, production scripts, and revision records.

The public case study uses insignia-free visuals and a silent 12-second preview rendered from the real scene. Private production files and third-party audio remain excluded.

The linked case study includes the playable preview and a deeper breakdown of the production workflow.