Willem Verwey shows you how to model a realistic rope in Blender in this 14-minute video tutorial.
Update: Willem's site is down for the moment. We'll keep you posted!
Update 2: Site is still down, but we found the video! (hat tip to JanKardel)
http://vimeo.com/28340971
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Seems like the link doesn't work. Cannot load http://www.3danim8.net/
Link don't work :s
Oh no! I'll contact Willem right away :-/
avast is giving me a malware warming on the site
It fails yes, the site is in google cache, but that's all (no rope in there, though)
forgot! looks really nice :)
Is it this? http://vimeo.com/28340971
yeah, it doesn't work
Apparently the host is shutting down and moving (that's the message I got) but the link JanKardel posted appears to be the correct video - it's posted by a Willem Verwey and in his comment he links to http://www.3danim8.net.
I added the video to this post. Thanks for your patience ;-)
What's wrong with the sound? I hear someone in the background mumbling, but the only thing audible is static. A lot of it.
Hi Blender Guys :)
the video is 14:36 long
the sound and image quality is not good as I'm used to watch in vimeo...
anyway, is always great to see another tutorial...
BUT, the video goes black screen around at 6:33 till 9:12
Sounds like someone needs to do a little post production... with Blender's video sequencer editing tools of course!
As a tool, Blender is on a professional level. The quality of this video is not. It's mumbling, static and black screen all of a sudden. It doesn't matter how nice the rope is, or the technique to make it. For the professional image alone, tutorials like this cannot be featured on the main headlines of the Blender home page.
Great idea, poor execution. You go too fast, you don't explain what you're doing, you did not have a clear plan going into this. Sorry to be harsh.
I think this was produced back in the '40's, if I remember correctly.... You can hear Catmull in the background trying to get his 3D hand to wave. :)
Now seriously..... That was a really quick way to make a rope (and looked easy). It would take me a really long time, and my rope would probably break anyway.
cheers!
The audio quality is horrible. I was barely able to hear that guy.
So much of complaining again.. Though I agree that the video quality was not perfect but still I was able to grasp the idea pretty quickly. So now if I need to model a rope I will know how to do it.
Thanks for the tutorial!
It's not what one would expect from a Blender Foundation Certified Trainer, and one who is on the Blender Certification Review Board, is it? See http://www.blender.org/education-help/certified-trainer/review-board/
Hi everyone. Sorry about the broken link. I have some dns problems. Hope to sort it out in the next day or so.
Thanks for the feedback. I will work on the audio and the quality.
Thanks
Thanks for the Feedback Guy's. My site is having some dns problems. Will fix it in a day or so. Bart thanks for the fix.
Well back to the drawing board with the recording and everything.
Go Well willem
What on earth were you recording audio with??
Here's just a thought that works well for me: I almost always prefer to treat the original audio as a rough-cut, not as the final audio track. It's so difficult to do these things well in a single take as it is.
Using the rough audio as a "walkthrough" for recording the final voiceover, piece by piece if necessary, is a great way to give the presentation that added appearance of having "spared no expense", at practically no additional expense at all. Treat it as a normal part of the process, not just as disaster-control. Audio can absolutely make or break any video.
Lol,
Why everyone always forget the screw modifier ?
Well geez, you stumped me with that one. Perhaps same reason why someone always forget that the screw modifier also have limitation.