da Vinci, Helicopter

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Edwin Glaser Writes:

Well…. we all are waiting for Big Buck Bunny. And announcing another open source movie is like the milkman ringing when you expect Santa Claus.

Nevertheless, there is another new blender movie. It isn’t Hollywood quality.
It doesn’t show the sophisticated technical abilities. It didn’t improve anything. And best of all – there is no use of violence in this open source movie!

You can watch it on-line at vimeo.

And you can visit the homepage to download the high resolution movie and the sources.

And by the way, somebody should fix Wikipedia. The authors suggest the da Vincy helicopter was impractical and didn’t lift off. This movie proves it became airborne!

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    • Rickyblender

      The Leonardo Manuscript is unreadble when dowloaded

      and would it be possible to have the Blend Model for this Leronardo Helocopter
      i mean not the whole movie just the simple helicopter model even if it was a low poly

      Keep up the good work

      Thanks

    • Zecc
    • Zecc

      That’s direct link to the movie, not the .blend files, by the way.

    • DJ_Boxer

      RickyBlender is talking about the image of Maestro Leonardo’s manuscript of the helicopter. The blend files are stored on a server for download.

    • DJ_Boxer

      For actual proof: look for a police public call box and ask it’s occupant. “The doctor knows him personally”

    • http://www.blender-pro.com uriel

      hahahahahaha ! so funny ! for one guy, it should be a month working and rendering…can you imagine the same scenario with good touch ?

      bye…

    • Arite

      Nice work :-) – I liked the Star Trek reference.

      Arite.

    • Nam

      some parts of it actually scared me a bit…no offense though…but it was funny…

    • http://www,taddmencer.com TAdd

      Wow .. that was … was .. freakin weird! I was expecting something semi-serious and it ended up being .. way weird. She gave the guy x-lax so he could take a … and then .. Spock!? What the!?

      Crazy. And why does all the hair seem like it’s in zero g? lol

      Nice job for one person though. Keep it up.

    • http://heartseed.sf.net neighborlee

      HI there and thx for this link.

      Great animation, and quite hilarious as noted by others ;)

      Great job, great tools indeed, thx for the effort :))

      To startrek, gimp, *buntu, and our favorite tool, blender!! ;))heh

      cheers
      neighborlee
      :)

    • Chris

      That was absolutely terrifying and bizarre.

    • J

      I really liked the way the screw propeller was made, nice material,

    • ccherrett

      The red haired guy made me laugh :)

      But very very strange!

    • http://byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      This was very entertaining, Thanks. I like the use of the collapse of time, bringing these characters all together.

    • Dusty

      “It isn’t Hollywood quality.
      It doesn’t show the sophisticated technical abilities. It didn’t improve anything. And best of all – there is no use of violence in this open source movie!”

      That’s the best build up I have ever heard! LOL It made me enjoy the movie a whole lot more.

    • d

      hmmm

    • egon

      i’ve never seen something more horrible!!!

    • Master Danix

      Of course if you only see the start,you can´t appreciate this movie,but if you see it until the end,you’ll like it,who made this video had made an hard effort to do this :D

      Good work

    • http://www.badluckbob.com Magiciandude

      Nice models. I really loved the helicopter material.
      However, the character animation could use some improvement.
      Some more finger animation would be nice.
      Overall less robotic look would be nice.
      Also, the people seemed expressionless.

      However, I really really liked the helicopter material. And the paper-looking background was cool.

      Well…nice work, and I expect to see some improved animation in your next work!
      Well done!

      -Chris

    • Leonardo

      For the love of god! Can you please spell my name right!?

    • http://gingermanpro.blogspot.com n00bhaxor

      Interesting, funny twist at the end! Made it all worthwhile!

    • MartinvDK

      Really sweet materials, but yeah the animation part could use some work. But as other noted, very funny, also some funny characters, I couldn’t stop chuckle :D

    • phunamy

      That was awesome, A long journey starts with a single step. Even though it could use a little work, you made a movie.

    • michelangelo

      i’m sorry but it can’t fly , becouse it must round the other way (as a screw , entering in the sky)

    • http://www.malefico3d.org malefico

      So, we’ve finally reached the point where no matter what, if made with blender, will have good criticism.
      Congratulations on the no use of violence in this movie.

      malefico

    • surt

      This thing creeped me out.
      It’s kind of cool, but it really creeped me out.
      Something about the hair.

    • Luciano

      Da Vinci’s wife is hot…

    • http://www.watchmike.ca mikahl

      @ malefico: Yeah blenderheads can always count on some complements here.
      But I am intrigued by the way the flying machine turned with the people, I wonder if it was rigged so the hands wouldn’t pass through it.

    • ArtIsLight

      Well, interesting… I see there’s a bit of work gone into that with fully modeled and rigged humans, cloth simulation (or soft-body work-around,) hair, etc. But it could have greatly benefited from better animation, hair design, and not having Leonardo’s daughter have her mouth open for so long. Anyhow, overall: cute idea with Spock. ;) Keep working and making films – you must know a good bit to be able to make a finished product – and with human characters!

    • ArtIsLight

      I didn’t like the yellow potion moment

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

      It isn’t a technical video so it doesn’t prove anything.

      @egon: Let’s see what you’ve got.

    • http://www.zanqdo.com ZanQdo

      its like seeing possessed barby dolls

    • FinSteve

      Not a bad attempt at all by one person, I loved the turn of the tale, really funny, the woan at the end making the mad signs! So the animation was simple, but hey the story telling was the important bit, and Ii think it was dam funny, well done.

    • rattle

      omfg, possessed barby dolls describes it exactly… we need an exorcist here who cuts out all the unnecessary stuff and forces this guy to concentrate on storytelling and filming basics first, then on animation

    • rattle

      PS: story itself is not bad but it could be shortened to a quarter if not less

    • http://www.creaturefeature.info Ataru

      R… O… F… L…

      I love it! Haha!

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

      Good job! Take my encouragement and I will see you in a couple of years time in hollywood!
      Excellent for one person.

    • randomnut

      I think Leo’s work has been made in Blender then printed on a homemade printer.

    • rogper

      ^_^ I’m speechless…
      But I did like the story and the idea ;)

    • Charon

      Didn’t see a movie in my life which scare me and make me laugh at the same time. Anything other than the helicopter is crazy built, I meant only the helicopter looks normal, such a metaphor!

      The good thing is this movie really tell a story, compare to some nice rendered movies are full of emptiness.

    • mangojambo

      OMG!!! There are ugly people!!!! hahahahahahaha
      Really damn funny!!!

    • Dale

      This is nit-picky, but shouldn’t the guys on the contraption be going the other way? The direction they are turning the machine would drive it into the ground, much like an auger digging dirt.

      Also, it would have been interesting if the woman were the Mona Lisa…

    • justaguy

      Although a great effort by a single individual, I think the timing of the animation seemed off somehow – too slow and rigid…. Just some constructive criticism… – It’s open source so maybe I should try to do better? LOL!

    • Amar Ashworth

      No violence… Awww, well that just ruins the whole thing for me, lol, jk. Well done for just one, better Mats. and less textures would make me happy. On a side note, Davinci’s helo, can’t work, Leonardo did not understand aerodynamics enough to know that without stability, and rotation controll the helo once airborn would spin the chasis not the propellors, once the body spin had stolen enough spin from the rotors he would have crashed back to earth. Maby next time you should tell the story of how leonardo’s inventions would have failed, it could be way more funny.

    • Rickyblender

      If the helicopter blend file model is available can someone tell me where i can find the site to downloading it?

      not the video which is around 100 MB just the helicopter model

      i like that Leonardo work he was a bit out of is time and it took us close to 400 year s to get at his level of knowledge not bad for a guy under the inquisition by some pope who did not believe in science!

      Salutations

    • bluelife

      saltarelloooo!

    • http://www.rgbk.org Bmud

      That made me nearly throw up in so many ways.

    • Edwin Glaser

      Thanks for your critique and the encouraging words.

      The stripped down helicopter.blend has been uploaded to http://e2-productions.com/repository
      The maintainer, Dion Moult, announced to validate the contribution within 24 hours.

      And please, don’t send an exorcist! I promice to practice animation skills and to learn the filming basics. But first I will spend some time in a beer garden, to observe natural movements of real people.

    • jacques

      too funny!!! they look like they’re all on crack!

    • LapinMan

      Wow ! What can I say ? You did it all by yourself ? Great job, CG animation is very difficult. I hope you can continue in this way and maybe do the sequel !!!