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German artist, Andre Baran has created a stunning animation based on the idea: “What complexity fits in a Sphere?”
Andre writes:
The theme of this study is the mechanical transformation, a change of the form. The 5 items that have arisen here, fall back in form and process of change on analogies from nature. A sphere, the simplest geometric shape that we know, serves as a starting form.
It was made in CAD Software (SolidWorks and Rhino) an than imported in Blender for mapping, lightning and animation.
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Very nice! Thanks for sharing. I’ld love to see what complexity can fit in other shapes too, like a cube or a pyramid.
The idea and the title are very good.
Beautiful.
So beautiful !!
Blender Render ?
A stunning animation. Superb. I am encouraged and inspired. Thank very much for creating and sharing it.
Also, don’t miss out on this:
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Andre B 12 hours ago
For all 3-D fans – here is a web-applet that shows the full transormation prozess in smal steps:
formendesign.de/seiten/1/media/3dnp/index.html
You can move it with the left mous button.
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@Dom Pedro
The author says so on Vimeo. It’s Blender internal.
I managed to figure out you can also use the W, S, A, D keys to make the models spin and open/close frame by frame, btw.
Very cool concept. Nice to see that the imported models worked well.
Hi, yes its a blender internal renderer. It took 1-2 min per frame.
Love the concept, design and the execution. One of the coolest things I’ve seen for while!
Beside the fact, that this is verrry nice work, the most important question wasn’t even asked:
Where can I get one of these lamps ??? :-))
Loved it. Great idea and execution!
Wow, this is great idea and design. Thumbs up!
Nice.
Also the Sidney opera house is basically made out of slices of a sphere.
Amazing!!… love the desing, I want one.
Wow, now that was cool. Thanks for sharing!
love it !!!
where can I buy one of those? :)
Very elegant shapes and animations, truly beautiful!
Very good. It also shows complexity of engineering.
cool stuff !!:-)
One Question:
how do you export the Geometry from CAD to Blender wich Format?
Does you rebuild the Meshes in Blender ?
Very well done!
Superb designs, lighting, and emotion in the animation. I agree with the above comment of “where can I get a lamp like that/one of those?”
I want those lamps!!! :D
Awesome animation. Excellent use of color, seeing as how it’s nearly all gray until the lighting comes into play.
The link for those (like me) who does not get it loading on this page: http://www.vimeo.com/9865011
Loved it – and just to add my two cents here: Isn’t it a shame that he had to use a “real” solid modeling package instead of Blender’s modeling tools. I really wish we had better solid modeling tools in blender – PLEASE! If I could help I would! And before you say – “but we have improved booleans” – just try SolidWorks for five minutes, and you’ll see what I mean…
@all thanks :-)
@jayh
Haleluja brother! It’s also my dream!
But its not realy goal of blender. It have no real suport of NURBS. Unfortunately for us :-(
@Ziko
I export it as OBJ from Rhino. It separate the surfaces from each other. It prevent the most of ugly smooth problems in blender.
@ all who wont to haw it. Sorry, its only bits and bayts, like the whole stuff we do in 3D ;-)
For my taste, the music style doesn’t fit with it, but animation is 100% beautifull.
Nice work! It would be perfect if the real product will transform itself and one of them is easy for this task.
Wow, seems like Germany has so many very gifted original artists. Very beautiful.
And the mechanics seems very unique..I’ll buy One!!
Wow those lamps are truly fantastic.
fantastic work but disgusting music–the music takes away from the art and turns the art work into some sort of gross composition that is a auditory assault–what is the problem here?–should i listen to the music or see the beautiful art work or look at the whole thing as what?
this is not a complaint but a comment on what is it you are trying to create?–i really dont know
peter
hi peter,
thank you for you comment. Unfortunately, the music is and remains a matter of taste. Each music has an own mood. I think that the mood of this music fits well with the mood of visual that I have created. You can see it as one of thousends possible interpretations ;-)
You have simply created an art form,
this is very very nice indeed.
Do you really start all these models with a UV Sphere?
yes, chack this out:
http://www.formendesign.de/seiten/1/media/3dnp/index.html
but, the entire modeling was made in CAD, not in Blender.
Great work ! I would buy one of them
Inspiring! very well done
awesome.
Very very great!!!
Beautiful! Great design. Where can I get one of those lamps?
@Artefakt
Sorry, there are only bits and bayts ;-)
So a sphere can make a bunch of different lamps?
Yap, for example…
Really Very Amazing Work……..
Sir, please upload tutorial….so that we can also try………….thanks
Wow. So has anyone tried to actually make some of these lamps or forms? They remind me of the thai puzzle balls that you take apart, but can never put together. I just got one from a street vendor in downtown LA and love the simple art detail in a ball of wood.
not half bada
You rock, very nice!
AWESOME DISPLAY
Marvelous
Absolutley Fantastic. Great work. Would love to know the prossess you did to get results you got. I use cad (Turbocad 15) and just getting into blender. Thanks for posting your brilliant work. Very inspiring indeed.
Pjay
This is simply amazing. is something like this real?
no, only bits and byts :-)
You can download all files here:
http://www.formendesign.de/download/
Delightful; Try selling the lamp designs.
@Grover
Thank you, i’m afraid it sounds easier as it is.
But if you have a contact to the interested manufacturer and distributor, let me know ;-)
That is exceptional.
A sphere is one of the most perfect constructs found in nature. We ought to use it more in everyday living. Thank you for an elegant display.
Amazing and very inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
Nice work xD . I really like the music, who’s it by
@gordeee
its this Artist from Jamendo:
http://www.jamendo.com/de/album/830
I love his music, its awesome!
I find he is one of the best there.
Awesome !!!
Send this to PIXAR– I’m sure they have a spot for you!
Just wow! Amazing video.. I would love to have a desk lamp like the one on 00:50
Stuff like this makes me think it’s time I put 3DS Max to one side and got into using Blender. Great post.
Really cool but hwy is it so dramatic? I had to turn off the music.
Wow, I will never look at a sphere in the same way again.
Nice.. but want to see even more complexity? it was shown in transformer movie.. ok that was bit too much. maybe wats shown here is possible?
Hehe, jea that guys who make Transformers said, that they have use some tricks like hiding or scaling some part to fit them to the wished shape. But I guess, not everyone saw that. It was impossible to follow all the moved, twisted and flying around part.
But i have use only G and R keys, i swear :-D
“an than imported in Blender for mapping, lightning and animation.”
huge word fail. beautiful designs though
Are these being produced for sale?
Ben Koshkin
No, it was only a study. Free projekt.
Wow.. cool.. keren.. :)
I liked the lighting perspectives. Great !
Congrats on an EXCELLENT job. It was just awesome to watch. Thanks much for sharing.
Great video. Thanks for sharing
Fucking awesome!