“My Favorite Way” by Black Drawing Chalks

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Virgílio Vasconcelos writes:

I can finally show the video here, since it already had its premiere on Brazilian MTV. :)

I was responsible for the 3D modeling and animation on this. The studio I work at (NitrocorpZ) has other apps in its production pipeline, but Blender is the only one used for 3D stuff.

The smoke was made with the standard Blender particle system, where the particles were displayed as a group of Icospheres to make the rotoscoping stage a bit easier. It was not the intention to achieve something photoreal here, but just a nice flow to make it easier to draw the smoke in 2D.

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    • http://www.openoctave.org ccherrett

      Not the way I would portray women.

    • http://www.stormrider-art.blogspot.com StormRider

      Very cool!!! ;) Good job, man!

    • http://www.digitalbitedesign.com Sandking

      I like the graphical style but I assumed that there would be more of 3d.

    • Anthony, Ireland.

      Very cool….

    • ray

      Great! Rythm and style (made me think a little of Pink Floyd’s the wall)

    • http://www.enricovalenza.com EnV

      Very cool! Great style, it looks like a modern “Yellow submarine” (the animated movie from the 70s).

    • http://www.blendercave.tuxfamily.org _tibo_

      Acids, girls, and a P31 : I really love it !

    • SebastianErler

      I agree, fantastic style and flow.

    • http://wickes.webs.com Papasmurf

      Amazing! I love the render style, like, Free Style? What did you use for the rendering engine? It reminds me of some Beatles videos. The shading gives it a 2D look, yet it had to be drawn with 3D because it is so seamless! And how did you do the transitions from like when the words “morph” into the pictures (and vice versa). Did you model the words in Blender? Can you tell I would love a behind-the-scenes scoop?

    • http://www.virgiliovasconcelos.com Virgilio Vasconcelos

      Hey, guys! Thanks a lot for your comments! :)

      @Papasmurf: the video wasn’t made entirely on Blender. The production had a mix of 2D and 3D animation. The words, for example, were hand drawn. I used lots of “shadeless” materials, and some setups with the Node Editor. The render was Blender internal. One of the biggest challenges on this was to try a seamless integration with the various type of media we had. :)

    • http://3dtinkerer.blogspot.com 3DTinkerer

      Very nice artistic style. I dig it man. :)

    • Mateus Stock

      Mandou mt bem cara!!
      Agora quero ver ele passando na MTV aqui! Acho q vai ser a primeira vez q eu vou ver alguma coisa do Blender na TV msm.. heheh

      :)

    • http://www.byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      Very enjoyable to watch. I appreciate your skill at human figure modeling and drawing. I was reminded of the work of Peter Max with the colors. It must have been a monumental task to make a video this long. Great job!

    • Saverio

      Great music, style and art!!
      great video Virgílio!!! :O

    • Gryphon

      Most excellent!

      Though… @Bart: an NSF warning (or maybe an “underwear alert”) would be nice… :|

    • johnj

      may be i’m too old… it makes think of the yellow submarine cartoon…
      i love it!

    • Nixon

      kick-ass video and great tune—the spitfire is a true classic…works well with the hippie 2d paintings…love it!!!

    • TonyM

      Great video!

    • http://roadster-racer.de.tl KFF

      good job. very nice

    • MacAttack.blend

      Awesome, Reminded me of some similar red hot chillies vid or sumthin ;O..kudos

    • FunkyDude

      i was gonna say cool, or wow nice, but that’s already been said! ah well! Nice!

    • Casey R Williams

      Great video, and the song wasn’t too bad either. I’m surprised people are complaining about it. Where were they in the ’80s I wonder?

    • Gryphon

      @Casey R Williams:
      Who’s complaining? With maybe two exceptions, this seems like a very positive set of responses to me!

      Oh, and I wasn’t around for the first half of the ’80s, and don’t remember the second half. But that’s just me.

    • http://www.twitter.com/goldenacorn93 goldenacorn93

      Wow, nice vid, nice music, and i love the “yellow submarine” style going on here; funny, because you wouldn’t ever guess that Blender was used here unless someone told you. Or maybe that’s just me…