The Making of ‘Swim Merlin Swim’!

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Blender artist Pablo Vazques [VenomGFX] is giving some insight in the production process of one of his great works, ‘Swim Merlin Swim!’


Pablo writes:

I always liked aquatic scenes, each one involves you in unique mood and colours, but over all, i like these kind of scenes because of what it takes to represent them in 2D and also in 3D, to take each of those details and to be depicted in a drawing it’s a task that requires lots of observation and a deep study; as I’m not the sort of guy that studies or observates too much, in this kind of “Making Of” you’ll find explained step by step the details that in a way or another took me to the final image in February, 2005. Despite the main tool used was Blender, this won’t be a software specific guide, it will be a short one about getting the final effects.

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    • Bas Brouwers

      I saw this last week and it reaally impressed me! Great job on everyting from modeling to lighting to animation. A real inspiration. A big thanks to Pablo for taking the time to make a ‘making of’!

    • http://mdm.gnwc.ca/?q=blog Stephen Danic

      Great stuff!!!

    • MrNoodle

      Nice compositng.

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Hi !

      Good resources. Great CG work. I haven’t found a link to the movie itself. Is the making of released before the movie ?

      Its funny, I started to work on an under water scene some weeks ago, and since I began I found several articles speaking of this kind of work. It must be in the time !

      Very nice tutorials. For my own, I’m very clumsy at compositing, so I did the following sequence in one render pass, with only procedural textures and few vertex painting :

      http://3d-synthesis.com/Under_Water.html

      I wish i will improve my knowledge in compositing.

    • TX_RX

      Love Pablo’s style and flair, surely Blender.org must carry a link to his pages :D

    • http://pterandon.blogspot.com Greg M. Johsnon

      Wow, looks INCREDIBLY informative!

    • http://spotmeon.blogspot.com gauavanim

      Article is very much informative
      and i think among a blender artist VenomGFX ‘s site is so EYE candy
      Hope he will come more with more tutorials soon too

    • http://darsam.spaces.live.com DramaKing

      Thanks a lot, Pablo. Good to know that Apricot isn’t taking up all your time :)

    • Tbs

      May be an obvious answer but I have yet to figure out hot to get those curved lines to show like the Merlin fish on the lower left. what are the settings?

    • http://byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      Pablo, what a cute character! I love the facial expressiveness.

    • Charlie

      Maybe the fish could make a guest appearance in Apricot! :)

    • http://byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      I finally got to see all the videos and links. This is very helpful. Thanks for taking all the time to create this.

    • dusty

      Darn! Seems like the link is broken.

    • Roger

      I think we broke his website. Sorry pal. Hope to see it up n running again soon!

    • http://mpan3.homeip.net/ mike

      I am seeing more and more personal artists’ site getting hammered by BlenderNation. Maybe you guys should shout us a mail before launching a DoS attack :D