Friday Hangout: How’s your Blender Project Going?
It’s been a while since our last Friday Hangout, so it’s time to catch up: how’s your current Blender Project going? Please share your images or videos below!
Next Door Man
It’s been a while since our last Friday Hangout, so it’s time to catch up: how’s your current Blender Project going? Please share your images or videos below!
Resilience Satelle is going slowish but it is going… waiting for the soundtrack for the trailer as I type.
http://resiliencesatelle.com
Yeah!
Sounds like you have an intriguing storyline for your short there Rogiéro! I hope the production goes well and that we’ll see it here on Blender Nation one day. :) That “teaser” trailer really *is* a tease though…
Thanks! :) The teaser still will take some time, it’s graphically done but no sound yet.
Pretty much stopped lol,
My advanced animation course starts monday so been studying for that :)
I have rendered most of the images. Starting on the sound.
Eat Sheep is coming along really well! I’ve been busy getting the monsters and sheep in game with their animations.
http://eatsheep.com
http://facebook.com/eatsheepgame
Hadn’t read about this game before, looks awesome!
Thanks! We’re hoping to get it done fairly soon :)
Looks great! Love the cartoony style!
Just announced mine today – a new tutorial challenge on BlenderDiplom.com – got mixed, but overall positive responses :)
http://blenderdiplom.com/index.php/en/blog/item/80-2nd-blenderdiplom-tutorial-challenge
Very nice Mr. Hofmann, i really like the idea
just started.
first blender project
Here, our project: http://alfonmc.weebly.com/hamusutaman.html
:B
Visual development of Ara’s Tale is now complete and the editing is locked. What remains is to cleanup all the remaining bugs and render the whole in 1080p. And parallel to this music and sound has to be done.
Total running time is 7:23 min. Estimated release is summer 2012.Production blog: http://www.loramel.netProject page ( needs a bit of an overhaul :) ): http://aras-tale.loramel.net
I’ve seen this on blender artist on the very first post on the wip thread, glad to know it’s almost done.
I like what I see!
Awesome! I’ve been following your progress off and on. I love the work you’ve done with it.
I am currently working with concept art and scripts for a short cartoon for my youtube channel.
Just got boards approved for a new set of photo-realistic product spots. Decided to go 100% Blender, took a chance and went ahead using Cycles pre-release while praying for layers to be added in time for production finishing and comp. Paid off. They loved it and I am one step closer to sending Maya packing from my workflow (been on that train since it was Alias PA v6). Sorry about the black square. Still under NDA so I blocked the logo.
Great work, always nice to see people making money using Blender.
Applying some changes to the render, by request of my client… But I prefer my previous version :S
looks cute.
Thank you, Looch :)!
what is your cordinate base to the model? like a esri .shp
Nice and clean. I like it :)
Project Falcon is going slow.
We need more modellers, texture artists are waiting.
For more info visit this link… http://projectfalcon.org
What you done so far looks pretty awesome.
We have another set which is pretty big that only on draft. Our original modellers got too busy as things carry on. The set is question is town surrounded by mountain range. Not too big, around 2km^2. With few hundred houses, shops, factories, 3 bridges, few mansions, a town center, a wet market, a waterfall. It’s a very huge list. Doable but not fast enough.
Are you planning on rendering the project with Blender Internal or Cycles?
Our project is doing quite nice, working our asses of to get our MassiveEngine and our first game ready for some more announcements, and specially working on getting everything ready for contest for the Blender Community we announced on our Bconf 2011 presentation.
We can not wait until the new asset manager gets into Blender, should work perfectly with our game engine!
This is my first character model I’m doing; I have rigged it (not the best rig though), and I’m working on texturing it now. I’d probably be done texturing it too if it didn’t take me ~12 hours to figure out how to get everything working. On my $400 laptop, which is acting very slow now.
Our Dragon’s Den 3D-with-live-action spoof is coming along steadily, still a lot of work to do:
http://halfmanhalfbird.weebly.com/blog.html
Here’s a screen grab from my current project:
http://www.shoepie.co.uk/images/buzz.jpg
Head and Wings are CG, it’s been motion tracked with Syntheyes (Sorry Blender Devs ;) ). The head is a projection mapped texture overlayed onto a model. Unfortunately the project is mainly held up waiting for another prop. to arrive from eBay!
me, just finished posting an animation done in blender . it’s caled what;s my name :D
watch, like, share & criticise
http://alexdobras.blogspot.com/2012/02/whats-my-name-3d-animation.html
Nice realism for the set, one of my favourite things is to mix Blender with live action so will be interested to see how this turns out.
My project is coming along quite well. I’m working on a big still render. I’m done with the environment; all i have to do is add people. I’ve already made the rig and I’m working on basemeshes.
Right now I am reworking a old project. I was not pleased with how it turned out.
http://holmen.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2y02u4
I have converted the materials to Cycles and am working on getting it just right. Then I am going to start adding in zombies and a nice environment. Progress is slow right now but I know that after a couple of weeks away I’m going to start with new vigor. :)
Is he rigged?
Yes, and no! the face rig has become very good.
https://vimeo.com/33018858
The actual body is rigged but it is not suitable for animation. That’s because the the actual armor is not practical to move in “in real life”. But it is possible to pose him.
We´re done with the modeling and animation, now lighting and rendering is in process:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150506338317541&set=a.10150381340262541.348072.209032432540&type=3&theater
I’m about half way done with the modeling of a Ford Model T.
Project not too bad but I wish there was a .deb file from the foundation to install blender on ubuntu.
Hey there,
I’m new to blendernation – so I want so say Hi!
Modeling an old braun super 8 movie projector for my showreel right now…
Greetings,
Dennis Richter
I’m actually almost done modelling my 2011 Golf GTI – all that’s left is a bit of overall tweaking and then the Subsurf, then rendering in Cycles!
Some of the most recent WIP snapshots (the render is a Materials test) :
I’ve been reworking a few sections since those images though…also forgot to mention, this is my first car model so far :)
Waiting on my scriptwriter. Until then I get to screw around with the characters.
Single-handedly trying to create my first 3D short film titled ‘Theevan’.
Running-time hopefully within 20-30 minutes.
An attempt at making a family fun film.
So far about 60% of the film is complete and will be a YouTube release.
Here’s the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R30ezVbRGj8
http://vimeo.com/29020081
Also attached are some stills from the movie.
I’m running experiments with motion blur – I wasn’t quite happy with post-pro results so I’m doing it the hard way using MBlur. I’m trying to work out how few samples I can get away with, which means a few attempts at different sample rates. It’s slow, but my render farm is on the case!
My last project ended in epic failure. lol
On the up side I learned a few things from my mistakes. Hopefully my next project will fair much better.
Been working a lot on Ancient Beast’s game manual http://ancientbeast.com/manual/
Check out a screenie of the combat http://ancientbeast.com/manual/combat.jpg
With a bit of support and luck, we’ll have an early alpha in about a month.
It’s going pretty slow. But it’s an infinite project, so it’s ok.
http://youtu.be/48oM0OnZxTE
http://youtu.be/OgC9t0swJsI
Starting to get epic! I’m in the mood for epic feature film making, and I got a project that’s somewhat related. Using cycles to keep renders looking shiny and the rendertimes down.
Our Sci-Fi project Gemini is progressing well. CHeck out our Gallery: http://gemini.dingto.org/
This is a work of young people (12-20). :)
currently working on an interior design – it has some big challenges for me, e.g. the organic look of the sofa cloth:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46166844/original.jpghttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/46166844/render.png
sorry, i made a mistake with the links, hope they work now:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46166844/original.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46166844/render.png
I like it very much! Looks great star diaries!
I’m currently working on a Venice scene with a canal and some dirty green water (ocean simulator). I already did the pales (surface with sculpting) and still need to add some buildings (those buildings should show a reflection in the water.)
The bridge got stairs and I need to add a balustrade for it. I will also add some boats, coverd with cloth.
So there’s a lot of stuff covered in my scene : Ocean modifier, Cloth simulator, sculpting… Yet I don’t know how to set up the ocean modifier material realisticly, what could ruin my whole scene, but think I can do this. :)
I’ve added a picture of it, showing a render on the left and the viewport on the right.
If anyone has some hints or suggestions please comment.
(and don’t say: that looks crap, I havent added any materials yet, and the scene is still far away from being finished.)
I’m beginner :) Some of my project(s): http://3docean.net/item/amplifier/531253 and locomotive(s) for RailWorks simulator
Nice train model.
Hr
Here is mine. Blender study project “Cat-and-mouse in Hollywood”.
http://www.nestergal.com.ua
My lasting project is launching a website using extensive use of Blender-made product visualizations for a bottled-water-related retailer and manufacturer in South Korea. My client wants it to be completed by next Friday but I think it would be completed far earlier than that. Once the site is launched, over a thousand clients of that company is schedule to be introduced to the site.
You might want to check it out at its temporary internet address: puyon.firstmall.kr
Every product photo(?) on its front page is a BI render. The site has already attracted another client. :)
I’ve been working on a short ‘logo’ animation. I made a simple robot and placed it in a landscape. The robot uses a laser to carve the logo into a mountainside. It’s coming along pretty well so far!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNDUO3mNAts
Working on a turntable of the mini world.
So much high quality projects… Only I am without any nice idea and skills to make something acceptable?
Waiting for a miracle… :(
why don’t you just go through a few tutorials while you haven’t got ideas? If you get an idea after that you will be able to create something with the stuff you’ve learned.
And for inspiration just view a few photos or so… always helped me to get ideas. Then you could start recreating your photo scene in 3d.
i know what you mean..:/
Trying to figure out how to render different sets of layers to different folders just like maya would do automatically… for compositing later.
in CYCLES i mean with the release candidate.
Sorry I’m late to the party. Lots of great projects out there. It’s so exciting!
Our project(s) are coming along nicely. Here’s the Blender-related stuff that we’re doing at Ott Planetarium:
+ Short project for client: Historical models of the solar system in 2048×2048. This is a refresh of some work we did back in 2007. A video of the Copernican model, explaining the retrograde motion of Mars is linked below.
+ Student Production: Astronomy Badge for Boy Scouts. My students are wrapping up production on a new boy scout astronomy badge program.
+ Feature Production: We’re a little more than half way through production on a new show for kids. We’re doing some green screen work to get real, live kids in the animated scenes.
+ Summer Blender Workshops: We’re restructuring our workshop offerings and will make an announcement soon.
Happy Blending!
Ron Proctor – Ott Planetarium
Wow! Everybody here is working at a big project in blender!
Everytime when i start anything in blender without a tutorial or something like that it ends in a mess!
I think i am not able to make some good looking results although i go through tutorials for more than one year. :((
The only project i completed was an UFO, but it doesn’t look really good at all :/
Does anybody has a tip how to get better in blender and how to improve my skills??, because i think i not learnt really much (THIS IS NO NEGATIVE CRITICISM AT THE TUTORIALS), although the tutorials, i have done, are really good and it has been a lot of fun to go through them.
keep up your blender work!
Good luck at your projects :)
this is the UFO i have done:
D’oh! Forgot to include the video link! :)
http://vimeo.com/29860463
Sometimes it helps to cheat Ron. Use in a good measure blur, try to use more textures, and do not model everything to the last screw. Post-processing with the nodes can help to “hide” your weak spots.
Of course it would be great if you would model everything with perfect topology and it you would become great in materials. Keep it simple. Create a polariod frame, place a simple pin or coin in it. Take something you have on your desk or in your room, so you can always take a close look to it. Simplify.
Concerning the lightning Cycles is grwat you can place lights and see directly (well within a few seconds) a very good preview of your result.
Looks like i’m late haha!
I am working on a Music Video for class, the song is “LukHash” and since the song is video game themed, we chose to film it in first person (sort of a mix between “smack my ***** up” except funnier and not disgusting as well as the FPS segment from the Doom movie), the project title is called “Digital Invasion”. This requires a lot of tracking and I decided to use Blenders internal tracker, it’s going quite well, the tracker is a bit iffy at times but when it works, it works. I have a few sprites done and I already have the final boss monster done, you can see the boss monsters final form right here;http://dinokaiser.deviantart.com/#/d4p1t9cI hope to upload my tracked files so animators and compositors can have some fun with pre-tracked footage :)
I am still waiting for other people to do the things I would like to be able to do.
Three minutes into scene F7. Scene F-6 is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2W2igqWP3Q
I watched only 20 seconds of a few of your videos and was amazed, man, I didn’t know a guy like you existed in the blender community (I don’t visit BA regularly), great storytelling, looking forward to watch more of you, you know what you are doing!
Holy crap! You are amazing! I had no idea blender could be used to create something as beautiful as this…. Once I am finished rendering I shall watch it in its entirety…. keep up the astounding work!!!!!!!
Things are starting to pick up with our project , had some fantastic artists join the team recently too :)
Showing Blender’s Cycles some severe love , the shader nodes are awesome :D !
http://www.wakinghourmovie.com
it’s my game all make in blender gimp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcvsvlgLc-M
and some for fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb46TxROI4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fngfhm_1-Jk
And here is my project: “The Canterville Ghost”, a 30+ minutes movie, realized in blender.
First Trailer:
http://vimeo.com/22985977
WebSite:
http://wigglyframes.wordpress.com
Two-thirds are done, but there is still a lot to do.
That’s amazing. I wish you luck.
Still building more tracks block pieces for our sandbox racing game TRACKVERSE. Couple of videos here at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/NakamaGameStudios.
I have started a short film with my friends, I have most of the CG assets made, now it is just filming, animating, compositing, and editing.
I have finished the script, and have planned out most of the shots, but school has slowed my progress
I am hoping to be able to start filming this month (highschool stinks like fecal waste)
BlenderArtists Thread:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?240678-Live-action-short-film.&highlight=
(I will update it shortly)