Microgrants for Climate Projects

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climate project 1“I just completed an animation of a bumblebee for a microgranting project. I’d love to share it with the blendernation community, and if there is interest I’d  love to share the rigs and write up a tutorial of some aspect of the production.”

Daniel Houghton

Microgrants for Climate Projects from Brighter Planet on Vimeo.

Website: brighterplanet.com

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    • cannonicall:

      Beautifull!!!

    • Tate

      I love when the bee dives into the pedal near the end. Got a good laugh out of it. Good video! Good to see a good video for a good cause.

    • s0ndeb0k

      Super cute and very well animated! Please do write a tutorial about the production of this animation – I would love to see the rig for the bee :)

    • danifou

      Very nice indeed ! Clean and simple yet powerful.
      Please do share via tutorial.

    • Jos

      Very nice work! Loved it!

    • http://www.designerpluseditor.com mmuldoon

      Really nice. Very clean, well designed. Great pace and feel. Would love a write up on it.
      Thanks

    • http://nicknamfx.wordpress.com nicknamz

      Cute and simple, i love it!

      simply thing are more efective, great work.

    • rgdfhdfhdryerztetz

      Please share the work flow via tutorial.
      Having the rigs for checking, experimenting with would be nice.

    • http://brighterplanet.com daniel.houghton

      Thank you for these kind comments!

      The rigs can be downloaded here:
      http://blog.brighterplanet.com/2009/11/02/behind-the-scenes-of-the-project-fund-video/

      I was thinking that maybe a tutorial about building up keyframes to make pleasing movement would be helpful, or maybe a tutorial about deciding where to put the energy into your scenes in order to get them done by deadline. Do either of these topics sounds interesting?

      Daniel

    • Bojo70

      Please do them both Daniel. I liked the animation and the two topics are both very connected in a project like this. I have a had a hard time knowing where to put the most effort, but if you have a good animation structure things goes alot faster.

    • http://www.sone-works.de?ref=bn sebih

      Very well done. Perfect style and animation! I really like it, especially the rythm of text and animation and the end.

    • gmendieta

      very nice work, very simple, very beatiful.

      Gorka

    • Jahmaica

      wow, nice animation!

    • http://myspace.com/marcusrasseli Marcus Rasseli

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAwesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • http://www.loklomedia.com/gallery.html Dwayne

      A+ by me! Excellently done. Would love to see some tutorials.

    • Gnaws

      Excellent, Daniel!! The animation was great, the little bee had tons of “expression”. LUVED the head-first dive into the flower and when s/he flew thru the dandelion!! Wonderful flourishes.

      Looking forward to the tutes.

    • kijja

      I love it,clean, simple. I like word too.

    • tonurs

      Mention the climate change rubbish and you can get grants for anything. Make it cute and you can get even more.

    • JotaSolano

      Was this done entirely in Blender!?…

      it’s really amazing… I love how you animated the seed that becomes the organization’s logo… it looks like a flash animation… (that’s why i asked if it was entirely made in Blender)

      This is the kind of style that i like the most, simple and clean, you make me want to learn how to Blend (propperly, lol).

      Keep it up!

    • banor

      WOW… one of the only animations done in Blender that I can actually say “that was really good and well animated.” You are an animator, sir. Congratulations.

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Very nice animation. Simple and efficient. Well done!

    • ffank

      Very nice video! Its nice to see such professional work made with blender!

    • http://johantri.com johantri

      it’s a pretty damn good animation ;) i love it

    • http://brighterplanet.com daniel.houghton

      Thank you all again for these encouraging comments. I’ll sit down tomorrow to write down a tutorial and should have something together by the end of the day or the following day. I’ll post a link here.

    • BonE

      all the things are right that are hard to pin down. pacing, style consistency, colors, length.

    • saverio

      very very very professional…smooth animation and great soundtrack…

    • Fredy Martins

      Amazingly simple, beautiful and brilliant!

    • Leonardo

      I love it, its a very fuid and clean animation, the contrast is very nice and the idea is cool.
      Good job, better than a lot of other blender animations that I saw lately

    • http://brighterplanet.com daniel.houghton

      Okay, I’ve got a write-up on planning and keyframing at

      http://blog.brighterplanet.com/2009/11/11/imperfect-planning-and-the-best-keys/

    • Benjamin Rodriguez

      Congrats! Is a very good material. Keep it doing good. Bravo!

    • ralmon

      Wow! Beautiful! Very charming. The animation is very great too. Thanks for sharing.

    • georgesloukas

      yeah nice, but words or sentences disappear to quikly, not enough time to read.