Abridged Recording
This is an edited version of the stream with limited rabit trails, chat interaction, and flubs. Also don't forget that speeding up the playback is a wondering tool for watching long-form videos!
Volumetric Rendering *today*, Junior
If you're like me, a few years ago you tried volumetric rendering with Cycles. And after waiting 30 seconds for your computer to calculate 1/100 samples, you cancelled the render and never tried it again. The fact is volumetrics are extremely complex to calculate and sloooooow to render.
Until Eevee! Volumetrics in Eevee shocked me the moment I heard it was a feature and I have to say they're quite competent. Finally we can edit volumetrics quickly. Sure you lose some authenticity but it's well worth adding this tool to your Blender utility belt.
Stratocirrocumulonimbo...expialidocious
In this stream we will focus our creativity toward clouds, starting with a simple cloud chunk first and then trying out a larger "cloudscape":
That whole "make sure you have node wrangler enabled" thing is as iconic as Andrew Price's "non-color data".
People in 1 AD could have said "last era".
William, that's even better :D
Your head must've been "in the clouds"
Last decade.
tsk tsk
Just say LAST YEAR
I know, I've said it
I'm so sorry ... but I had to
In the description is says that the software is 2.81.