Nicer graves with Blender and 3DNP

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blender-graveCarsten Wartmann used Blender for an interactive display of gravestones. There’s a first time for everything :)

Carsten wrote:

I was just successful to sell some (slightly interactive) 3D content for the Web. Of course done with Blender, rendered with the internal renderer. Presented on the web with the great tool 3DNP (http://www.thoro.de/page/3dnp-introduction-en).

The three first gravestones there is a animation in three colors of granite (grau, schwarz, rot). Use click and drag to navigate in the scenes.

The scenes use some heavy particle grass and the pebbles are arranged with bullet physics.

There is another animation but you have to klick R A S E N – / G R A B P L A T T E N in the menu and then look for “Animation starten”. I can’t link to it directly.

So I hope you don’t need such gravestones soon!

Carsten

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    • JB

      Hi Great job there. I’m just curious about something.

      Your link : “There is another animation but you have to klick R A S E N – / G R A B P L A T T E N in the menu and then look for “Animation starten”. I can’t link to it directly”

      This animation, with the camera at ground level, when you rotate around the scene the gravestone lifts out of the grass and then settles back again.

      Was that done on purpose?

    • http://blenderbuch.de Carsten

      Yes, it shows that the stone is not only a thin plate but a big stone. The size is forced by law in germany, not that someone lifts it and did get cought under it or something…. Strange as many geman laws ;-)

      Carsten

    • JB

      They say you should try and learn something new every day……..

      I will mark this as today’s lesson

      Thanks for that info mate, I haven’t read up anything about gravestones or anything closely related to death yet. I’m not planning on dying in the near future :). Will save that bit about the size of the stone, just for future reference.

      JB

    • tntermini

      cool, I like the grass.

    • Sender

      nice, making money is , always good .

    • Trevor

      I can see it now, the next step: another augmented reality use, but this time it’ll be putting a miniature replica of your relative’s face on the tombstone! That’s not weird or anything…

    • http://blenderbuch.de Carsten

      I was about to design a solution which would allow the customer to preview the stone with own images, but it was rejected because of the cost. However the thingy is that you can already place any grey image onto the stone, they are laser engraved.

    • Alex Blank

      Very cool, if slightly morbid ;-) Great work

    • http://rogerwickes.com Papasmurf

      Love 3DNP, but why is Jake wearing a mask, and why is there what looks like a body covered with a tarp in the bed of his pickup truck? just curious.

    • http://www.freid.com Freid

      Perhaps someday you’ll have to animate zombies :).