I started modeling Porygon, for some low effort fan art, and it turned into this. I had the idea of making Magnemite after starting the computer, (because magnet+computer). Magnemite has always been one of my favorite pokemon though, so that might have had something to do with it.
Porygon is rendered in workbench, then composited into a screen designed in affinity designer.
the magnet/crt effect is a fractal animation rendered in Jwildfire, controlling a distortion in blenders compositor, and an aggressive application of the lens distortion node for color distortion.
Then I used that composit as an animated texture on the computer screen. Magnemite and the computer/desk were rendered in one pass, with some light post-processing (mostly glare)
The computer is based on the old "computer search" pokemon card, but I've made it beige for extra nostalgia.
Ive used the new Khronos color mapper (in blender), which has avoided the progressive de-saturation that Agx always added, very useful for a scene like this. It really is shockingly more saturated tho, I had to be much more careful when picking colors.
