Creature Factory DVD Teaser Posted

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0131.jpgAndy Goralczyk showed an early teaser for his Creature Factory DVD last October at the Blender Conference in Amsterdam. The audience was wowed but the project remained a bit of a mystery for the rest of the community. Until now – Andy has posted the BConf video on YouTube. Enjoy!

Please keep in mind that this video is the result of some *very* early experiments. The final product may be completely different!

Q: Can you already give an indication when the DVD can be expected?

A: Unfortunately that’s a bit unpredictable. as soon as I can find some time (probably after peach in late april) I can go back to recording and dvd mastering. but I dont quite know how much I have to re-edit the content… blender has changed quite a bit… some information might be outdated already. I need some quiet time to review everything.

Q: Do you have background information on the project somewhere (like what people will find on the DVD etc)

What I already have is a 5 hour time-lapse (hopefully with commentary) showing the complete creation of a series of blender shots from start to end. In addition there is a collection of in-depth tutorials about several aspects of the process, such as modeling, materials, UV unwrapping, lighting, compositing. All these are created with the intention to be used in a slightly larger scale project.

Over the last couple of months I also learnt a *lot* more… so I obviously would like to incorporate that into the collection. how this is going to happen, I dont know yet.

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    • Lee/LohnS

      Great! I can’t wait to see this one, it will be a great resource for all round stuff!

      Congrats Andy and hope you end up with some time to finish it soon, I’ll be getting it as soon as its comes out!

    • Tony

      I am seriously looking forward to this one.

    • http://thinningpictures.googlepages.com/ LoMac

      Looks like it’s gonna be a must have.

    • Jim

      That is the definition of a teaser. I am waiting on pins and needles.

    • vagelis

      WOW!Amazing…

    • http://www.freewebs.com/lenwest/ Len

      Friggin hell, that looks awesome hey.

    • http://gr8effect.com/ Dimitris Christou (gr8!)

      I love designing+modeling organic-mecha stuff! Will DEFINITELY get this one when ready!

    • Bas

      Wow, that was very impressive!! Now I can’t wait till it comes out! There was so much already in the teaser that blew me away that this is an absolute must have for me when it comes out! Good luck on finishing it!

    • http://quilibrium.nl/ Quilibrium

      amazing stuff!! gorgeous and a long wait

    • Cyrr

      Wahnsinn!!

      real great stuff Andy – thanks for the teaser already. It’s always inspiring to see what blender can do, in the hands of the right persons.

    • Stepaan

      OMG!

    • http://www.jax2milz.blogspot.com/ Napalm (JaX2MiLz)

      Great… Now I know how much my work sucks… ima go cry now…

    • blendercross

      Only one word – amazing!!!!!

    • dusty

      WOW! Can’t wait. If this is a “TEST” then the finished product, even if it is different, will be trouser wetting AWESOME!!!!!

    • http://cosmic-e.com Zalgren

      Holy crap you’ve got some skills Andy.
      Excellent work.

    • http://e2-productions.com Dion Moult

      HOLY CRAP.

      <3

    • http://e2-productions.com Dion Moult

      Question: how do you do the glowing lines on your creature? I really need to know this :)

      Question: did you make all the textures yourself, or do you have some sort of resource site, if you do, can you share it with us?

    • http://www.river-valley.com Kaveh

      I was lucky enough to be on a 5 day course at the Blender Foundation. Watching Andy create something from scratch is quite jaw dropping!!

    • TX_RX

      That is awesome looking, agreed, another must have! :)

    • James

      [I found it amusing that on the linked site, after the video showed Mr Goralczyk going to all the trouble of compositing in blur, wobble, haze, glow and other reality-is-dirty effects, a comment complained that it looked good, but was, you know a bit blurred, wobbly, hazey, etc.. hehe]

    • http://www.pyrosever.com pyrosever

      That looks amazing, it sets a very high standard.

    • Jon

      Well, I’m definitely gonna be buying this. I knew Andy had good artistic taste but I didn’t realise it extended to his choice in music too. Adding Juno Reactor to any equation multiplies awesomeness by at least 200%.

    • Barbie

      Wow really interesting

    • steffen

      realy cool, looking forward

    • Robin

      Love the teaser. Nice music to. Who made it???
      If the finnished production is as amazing as this teaser that in will rock my socks off!!!!

    • Jonathan

      Beautiful

    • http://adndandads.com coodle

      The music is the only thing I don’t like in this video!
      Well, and what I’m also not fond of: it’s the old video, only shorter.
      Andy, show us something new, please! :)

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      “Andy, show us something new, please! :)”

      @coodle: Andy’ll show us something new on April 10th when Big Buck Bunny premieres. Until then I doubt he’ll have any time left to work on his DVD! :)

    • Lord of the Rings Junkie

      Andy, you have no idea how envious I am of your skills. Fantastic work, as always. I’ll definitely be buying the DVD.

    • http://adndandads.com coodle

      Bart, thanks for pointing it out again.
      He mentioned the delay because of Peach several times but nevertheless I wanted to push him a bit ;)

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @Coodle: yeah, I think creating Peach is a lousy excuse for delay, too ;-)

    • tomathjärna

      wow, looks awesome!

    • Sanne

      Awesome! Even those short animation clips with the creatures transport a lot of emotion already. Wish they were longer, I want to see more. :)
      And I liked the music too.

    • CasperN

      wow! one more customer here :)
      good luck @ndy

    • Steren

      Very impressive.
      The design reminds me the work of Yoji Shinkawain the Metal Gear Solid series

    • http://www.tweakingknobs.com TweakingKnobs

      awesome !!!

    • rogper

      Mr. Andy Goralczyk is one of my Heros ;)
      I would like to achive someday his modeling cleaness and quality as also render quality… but he keeps raising the bar :P

    • http://www.gamebrewers.com Kukanani

      WOW!

    • http://www.falgor.net Falgor

      I saw this at the Blender Conference… nice indeed ^_^

    • Gat

      WOW

    • http://freezingmoon.org Dread Knight

      WOW!

    • tikki

      WOW!!

    • joeri

      I showed this at the art&technology strp festival 2007 (thanks Andy!) and people where equal impressed. Im looking forward to the dvd-rom, it’s probably going to be a “must-have” for a very long time.
      -Joeri

    • http://www.myspace.com/roboteches Gman

      Love it!!! Can’t wait. MUST….HAVE….

    • Reynante M. Martinez

      Sh*t!!! Oops, sorry. Oh, man. My heart beat really fast. I’m palpitating…

      My #1 inspiration, sir @ndy did it again. Wow, really really really really really wooooow! *faints*

    • http://adndandads.com coodle

      @Bart: Haha, yes, that’s a bad excuse ;)
      You could almost think of a “Peach conspiracy”, no one has ever seen real material so far, only one short sequence and pictures of it… I think they’re working on something else, because even the Apricot team has shown more stuff of their game.

    • http://www.dm07.net Dm7

      One simple sentence:

      Go back up 2 comments and see what Reynante M. Martinez has to say…

      I’m in the same boat! *passes out*

    • GIKKIO

      Amazing!!!I hope that this project is ready in short time.Very great!

    • http://www.creaturefeature.info Ataru

      Whoah… whoah… whoah… whoah…

      Whoah… whoah… whoah… whoah…

      Whoah.

      That looks so amazing it isn’t even funny. I want to learn EVERYTHING he did to create that thing. It’s just purely amazing… look at the way it moves and lights up and look at the clouds and stuff…

      Whoah.

      The music was pretty sweet too.

    • http://www.viseal.de sen

      Yeah.

      I will buy on, too!!

      @Ataru: dito! ;)

    • http://olivier.cousinou.free.fr/index.html hillrunner

      Fantastic work. As a french user, I would love to see some PDF tutorials accompanying the DVD (it is often difficult to understand while listening english langage). It could help a lot. Thanks for sharing this.

    • http://www.blender3d.at carlinhos

      A must-have!!

    • FinSteve

      Wow, for all those proponents of high end priced 3D software, ..Put this in your pipe and render it!

      Cant wait, for the DVD, Well Done Andy!

    • CrazyJack

      add me on the list of admirers, f**** amazing, please teach us o great one – cant wait for the dvd

    • BlendMaster

      wow, cant wait fo rhtis to come out!

      this looks really good, but one questions,

      in the timelaps teaser, it looks like ur edges on the model (in like model mode) are curved?? ive seen this before
      but whenever i try my edges are always streight lines ( even when i subsurf) so how do u get these curved edges??

      like what i mean is the it seems like a face, has 4 edges and 4 verteices, but the edges are a but curved!

      any ideas? i wanted to know this for a while but never did ask

      thank to all that could asnwere :)

    • Lord of the Rings Junkie

      @Blendmaster: For the subsurf modifier, right next to the arrows you use to move it up and down in the modifier stack you will see a blank grey circle. Click it.

    • BlendMaster

      @ Lord of the Rings Junkie thanks:)

      i tired it but it seems kinda wierd

      for example when i looked at it, it seems like i would need subsurfe level 6 to get it to look like the wireframe in the video (1:08 min)

      it seems too fast to be modeled at subsurf level 6, is there something im missing??

    • thinkinmonkey

      Oh my God !!!
      I’m learning Blender because I want that DVD… I WANT IT NOW !!!!

    • http://idkq.com Zag

      A must-have.

    • Icono

      @thinkinmonkey: I want that DVD because I’m learning Blender.

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