Tutorials Video

Pin Art Animation

Bart ·

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC6JVsivW_g&feature=related

By Tom Walks.

Tom writes:

I had a recall of Nine Inch Nails – “Only” videoclip. I had to try that.

Music : Jimmy Hendrix – Fire. All done in Blender. 2.63, internal render. Also made an image rendered with Cycles. Basically, it’s done with dupliverts:

  • I used a plane, subdivided a lot, and Uv unwrapped.
  • Then modelled a pin and parented it to the plane. In the Object / duplication panel of the plane, I chose “Verts”.
  • Now there are as much pin as vertices of the plane, and each pin is parented to a vertice.
  • Now if you add a displace modifier to the plane, and choose a new texture, or a black and white image, choose UV as the mapping, the displace will draw the image in 3D, so the pins will follow this deformation.
  • If you use a black & white video instead of an image, works too, but the perspective may not be right. BE VERY CAREFUL when using a video I don’t recommdnd you to play the animation real time in blender (3D view), I experienced strong freeze on my PC. Just change frames from one to another.
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.
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