Nicer graves with Blender and 3DNP

Bart · December 11, 2009

Carsten 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 â€“ / 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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Nicer graves with Blender and 3DNP

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

10 responses

11 December 2009 at 11:30

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?

Carsten

11 December 2009 at 11:33

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

11 December 2009 at 11:54

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.

tntermini

11 December 2009 at 12:57

cool, I like the grass.

Sender

11 December 2009 at 14:37

nice, making money is , always good .

Trevor

11 December 2009 at 16:53

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…

Carsten

11 December 2009 at 17:49

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.