Blender Work in Art Students Expo, Winchester, UK

Laurence Weedy wrote:

I am putting on an art exhibition with some friends this week at Winchester School of Art in England.

There are 5 of us, two from the Düsseldorf Kunst Akademie (Christiane Kues, Christoph Westermeier) and three of us from Winchester school of art. (Yeeyan Tang, Christina Wrege and Laurence Weedy)

I am writing to you because my work is made using the Blender games engine and I thought you might be interested in this for a ‘Blender News' article. I have put some screenshots here.

I am a mature student at Winchester school of Art and have started using the Blender Games engine in my work. I'd wanted to work in interactive 3D for sometime and discovered Blender after trying Torque and RealityFactory (I still use RF as its great fun and a really helpful forum).

I love the physics in Blender and the fact it isn't based around any game concept. You really can do what ever you want. It is also bigger than my brain.

What I am presenting for our show this week is a simple piece (I am still a Noob) based on the graphic arts of the 20s and 30s, particularly the work of El Lissitzky. I wanted to make that kind of work but 3D and somehow interactive. I ended up rendering everything shadeless to get the graphic look with just the changing size of the objects giving away their 3D journey. I am projecting it on to a silver, glitter material which gives a very directional, bright and colourful appearance.

We have a website – www.kronloyal.co.uk

Show dates 25th – 27th April 2007 9:30 – 17:00
Private view 26th April 18:00 to 20:00

Winchester School of Art,
Park Avenue,
Winchester
SO23 8DL