The Widow

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Nicolas Alvarado writes:

Animation entirely made in blender with nurbs curve, the layout made with gimp, inkscape and mypaint. Edited in the internal editor.

One scene from the ‘Making of’

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    • Artorp

      Woah, nice!

    • n00bhaxor

      Scary, man! Nice use of Blender.

    • ideo to share veefwoar

      i like it! very well done mate. would be good to see a longer ‘making of’ vid to share your good ideas on workflow.

    • bautz

      Scary, and very well done, I like it

    • rogper

      It’s a very interesting use of Blender Nurbs curves! I even suppose they have never been put to such a good use :D Very good atmosphere also.
      I found it a little short, looks like a intro for something bigger… but it is very cool ;) Congratulations!

    • migero

      the animation of guy falling from the horse is really odd
      but i like it +4.5 stars D

    • http://dithi.es/ DiThi

      Hum… Orochimaru!

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Brrrr ! It gaves me the goose bumps.

      Well done !

    • oxigen

      WTF, every animation posted lately here is more sick?! Hmm, let me see next…

    • florinel

      Very good animation except the part of guy falling from the horse (the final).

    • http://iluvblender.blogspot.com satish “iluvblender” goda

      I don’t like it!

    • cannonicalll

      How bout making a tutorial????? Or a detailed video about how you reach those results?? Would be grreat!
      -
      Estaría exelente que hicieses un tutorial o un video más detallado sobre como llegaste a ese exelente resultado.
      Muy buena la dirección también cumpa, muy logrado todo. Felicitaciones!

    • Blabeen

      Well done , specially the soundFX .

    • http://www.DreadKnight666.com Dread Knight

      Nice job :)

    • janidotux

      Nice animation, very well done, specially employing Nurbs, by the way, please respect Michael Jackson memory!!! :D
      Were you inspired by local urban legend?

    • redbyte

      Absolutely terrifying. But it’s an interesting use of Blender. I really like the style of animation and composition. It’s like 3d, but not as distracting. Brilliant work over all.

      Also the eery story reminds me of the ‘Blood Trail’ animation. If you haven’t seen it, check it out: http://www.nathanlove.com/#/work/4/video/1/
      But be warned… it’s very gory.

    • http://www.antoons.org antonvdh

      Nice work and not a happy end .
      With which program did you make the sounds.

    • http://www.svingo.com Christian Lehmann

      Very scary and nice camera usage. The “smiling” moon was distracting though.

    • 01mf02

      I like it a lot as well! Very nice graphics style and good sound effects!

      Reminded me of “The Erl King” (“Der Erlkönig”) somehow …

    • Jordan

      Great job, Nicolas. I really enjoyed it. Short and sweet. =)

    • abdeALI

      freaky…

    • killx94

      Cool and freaky but the ending… lol

    • BlendNmix

      BRAVO!!!

      Nice style, nice mood!

    • Thomas

      The only thing I particularly like is the witch dissolving… Other than that I don’t care for the style.

    • RNS
    • http://hamsterking.com JoOngle

      Nicely done!

      Also very artistic, good use of “story-timing”, this was easy to understand and very entertaining (albeit in a sick way) ;)

      On a side note, I really like the fact that everyday people everywhere on the planet has easy access to
      opensource software that now are becoming very usable – that can take you from production start to finish product.

      (requires HEAPS of stamina and artistic craftmanship) but still.. ;)

      NICE WORK!

    • http://davidlindsley.com David Lindsley

      For something a little lighter and cheerier, check out this video:

      http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=167131

      - Enjoy!

    • Sean

      That was scary! I especially like how the witch dissolved too. I like it!

    • Ianvdl

      Scary…

      Btw: How does one get a picture next to your name?

    • http://nicknamfx.wordpress.com Nicknamz

      Wow thanks a lot!, this short i made for a contest, here in Chile, the history is about a populary myth of a widow in a island of south in Chile, called “Chiloe”… this is the page of the contest.

      http://www.emol.com/especiales/2009/otros/maestrosdelpixel_2009/animada.asp

      This is a post i made with some image of the short in blenderartist.

      http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=163672

      soon i gonna share a tutorial of how i made it ;)

      Nicolás

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

      Wow, I loved that particle effect on the widow!!!

    • Gnaws

      Wonderful!! Please make a short tutorial soon!! =]

    • vidrazor2

      That is effectively creepy, ay? Great work. Fright-wise, you may have just been usurped by Christmas is Coming to Our Home, but at least it was intentional here. :-D Great job.

    • Bozo

      I’m often amazed to see in how many ways blender can be used.
      This short film is not only impressive by it’s visuals and design, it’s also entertaining by it’s content – excellent work !

    • bojo600

      nice video. i dont know, but the cheesy scariness kind of made me laugh. maybe im messed up or something.