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The Making of 'Swim Merlin Swim'!

  Published by Bart on April 14th, 2008 in 3D News

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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15 Responses to “The Making of 'Swim Merlin Swim'!”  

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  1. 1 Bas Brouwers Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 7:46 am

    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'!

  2. 2 Stephen Danic Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 8:16 am

    Great stuff!!!

  3. 3 MrNoodle Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 9:32 am

    Nice compositng.

  4. 4 ROUBAL Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 9:45 am

    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.

  5. 5 TX_RX Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 11:00 am

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

  6. 6 Greg M. Johsnon Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Wow, looks INCREDIBLY informative!

  7. 7 gauavanim Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    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

  8. 8 DramaKing Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

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

  9. 9 Tbs Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    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?

  10. 10 ByronK Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

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

  11. 11 Charlie Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

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

  12. 12 ByronK Edit Link Apr 14th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

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

  13. 13 dusty Edit Link Apr 16th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    Darn! Seems like the link is broken.

  14. 14 Roger Edit Link Apr 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

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

  15. 15 mike Edit Link Apr 21st, 2008 at 5:29 am

    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

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