Chris Monson (CMonson) writes:
This piece was made as video backing for a live Christmas performance for around 8000 people. The song being played is Chris Botti’s version of Hallelujah. This piece was created over a 2 week span with all source material created in Blender, and some post processing and masking done in After Effects.
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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 Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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Very nice! Merry Christmas to you all!
Yes, very nice. Would love to see some details about how it was made, because it's so different than the normal output I've seen from blender.
ho ho ho right on nice video I liked your video until you talked about the presents
Simple great, simple wonderfull, very nice...
J'aime beaucoup,
JOYEUX NOEL à tous les blendermens et womens
HOHO HOooooooooooooo...
Very nice. Happy Christmas to all.
Wonderful! Great! Very Nice! Happy Christmas
Nicely done - It's unique.
Nicely done - It's unique.
Merry Christmas to you
Great music! Very cool animation!
lovely!
I would also like to learn how this was made. It is a powerful tool for starting ideas.
Mary Christmas!
Thank you. Well done.
Merry Christmas to all.
P. Monk
Really lovely! Thank you for sharing!
Great piece, Merry Christmas
Beautiful. Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to ALLL! Peace on Earth between God and Man.
Very well done, was this perchance Freestyle?
Design very poetic! I love it ! bravo :)
Lovely! The music and the video fit nicely! Glory to God!!! Merry Christmas to you all! Peace and Love!
Nice work!
Happy xmas 2 everyone out there.
LOVE it!!!!!
Elegant!
That was good! Very artistic usage of Blender! I like seeing someone using Blender to render such an illustrative style. Was the Freestyle rendering engine used to achieve that illustrative effect?
Very suitable song choice, since the song is about sex.
Nice style with the graphics. Very well done.
unusual use of Blender. Please share how the sketchy appearance was made. thanks.
Nice work, thank you Chris :o)
I wish you all merry Christmas and a good, happy, peacefull year 2011 :o)
i love it...
as usual the tool is just a tool and the soul is the soul!
Great Work!
Thank you very much!
Merry Christmas!
I'm not a believer in christian fairy tales like the nativity. But this was very nicely done, very smooth.
WOW. I like it.
Very nice!
Not to lessen your good job, but with that music ... it's cheating! The music is so wonderful that you get into a "make me dream" attitude automatically!
Happy holidays!
simplement beautiful
Very Amazing!
Very inspired piece!
Merry Christmas to all of you!
:D :)
late to the party as usual. i enjoyed the style. i think vignetting is getting to be a bit old however. it's like photoshopping lens flares or something, and i don't think necessarily fits with this theme or feeling.
for being a story, however, i couldn't find any. a guy being watched by sheep. bunch of guys waiting for the camels to move, and then two guys looking at a box in a sheep paddock. all of which is fine, i was just disappointed i spent 3 minutes watching camera animation within a still life of nothing happening and no story. wow that sounds harsh, but i can't say it any other way. the style was refreshing, i just wish it had been put to an effective use.
i think that this is what what was meant to be: a Christmas crib with no animation
this way there is more Christmas feeling
of course with a lot of time can be found an animation fit to this fact, but i like so much the idea!