Something you should see

When I saw this I had to post



What you are looking at is not a film, its a mixture of photomapping and CG. Its brilliant, who needs shaders or lighting, when you can composite beautiful photos together on 3D models:

Blender, what is it good for?

Absolutely everything! (sorry it hit so I had to type it :P)

so as most of you know I do my modeling and UVing in a program called Blender.

Blender is an opensource animation package, that has some of the most powerful tools for the money. From fluid and cloth simulation to complex rigging solutions to even a full video compositor (something maya JUST put into its pakage and even so its no where near blender's), blender can do pretty much anything. It also includes a node based material system as well as a completely openGL interface (meaning you can customize it in anyway you wish).

I'm a very big supporter of blender as well as opensource software. I don't believe price should be the limitation that artists face.

Blender being completely free is just an all around great program to have on your computer, and being extremely small you can load it onto your thumbdrive and take it with you when you go :)

www.blender.org is their site and explains everything in fine detail.

some videos showing what blender can do:









as well as a slew of other vids on the main page.

OH and big buck bunny and elephants dream? they're both open source movies and have the all the files used to make them (Sound textures models scene files etc) available for download and use in your own project :)

Sending a postcard home:

I thought, since I made my own blog that I would post my progress there. So here is a link to it for anyone interested in looking at what I'm up to.

Ismetric

I'm also thinking about developing painting tutorials, so any of you folks who do digital painting may like what you see. Because obviously I'm an expert...right...

There'll be stuff at least. Whatever I can find....

...So there. Now you can know where I'm at. You been told.


See ya. :)

For Inspiration:

I just thought it would be useful to see these. Gobelins, for the most part. Yes, yes they are traditional 2-d animations, but heck, they're better than a lot of the 3-d nonsense out there.

The link for Youtube

The list of the animations:

Monstera Deliciosa - beautiful and clever.

Le lac gele - cool

Fenrir - Fantastic!! -my favorite, style-wise

Dodudindon- Hilariously good-my favorite concept/story

Jelly Sunday - did I watch this yet?...


There are a few animations I recall now that incorporate both, which is cool and I believe you could do later on (or now....maybe) in 3-d.

Apres La Pluie- "After the Rain"

La Main des Maitres- .......actually, this one is mostly 3-D in 2-D's clothing with some stills (which honestly don't convince me, but they work).



There's more out there. Look on the Gobelins site from time to time. Also, Supinfocom and youtube in general are great places to check.

When I can focus better, I'll be sure to keep you all posted (haha pun).

Textures anyone?

Once again I'm doing the charitable thing, even though like no one goes on here from class (for shame) Im submitting to you guys the bump and eye texture. the bump because you guys can use the color brush in photoshop and colorize it for a skin texture (I'm basically giving you guys a starting point) and the eye texture cause well who couldn't use a good eye texture right?

Bump:
(which had to be compressed significantly for upload, it originally was 48mb)


eye:


Enjoy! :)

HAFF 09

Yesterday I was notified that my animation Seeing Red has been selected for the Holland Animation Film Festival 2009 Web competition. This contest was entered via YouTube:

The winner of the webcompetition will be revealed in the end of October. Also, the film will be screened at the Opening Ceremony of the festival on 4th of November 2009.

More uncanny animation

This is the one we watched in class: