Gooseberry: Making of Falling Sheep

Bart · April 8, 2014

Gooseberry partner studio Vivify from Mumbai, India, has published this wonderful breakdown of their contribution to the Gooseberry trailer: the falling sheep.

Are you supporting Gooseberry already? It’s about time!

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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Paul Maillardet

8 April 2014 at 19:28

Cool! It seems so simple, seen like that! :)

cabaj

8 April 2014 at 20:47

Sheep is the best character in my opinion. Its worth to support just for Him :D

MSG

9 April 2014 at 03:36

Nice! Any plans to release more detailed training videos ?

S J Bennett
9 April 2014 at 04:47
If you’re on the Blender Cloud you have access to download three of the shots’ production assets already. It’s not quite the same as a training video, but it’s great to be able to poke around to see how it’s all put together.
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1. MSG
  9 April 2014 at 13:55
  I got it. Thanks. Perhaps the movie posts should be more visible on the Blender Cloud (instead of being an obscure link below the banner). Btw, though analyzing blend files may be cool and insightful I think I would personally benefit a lot more from seeing the process, not just the end result. In that regard I would love to see even a non-edited screen-capture of the workflow (perhaps timelapsed) and even without any commentary. This would teach me a lot more than dissecting the assets.
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  1. S J Bennett
    10 April 2014 at 06:57
    I agree it would be even more informative to have a timelapse of the creation process from start to finish, but if I know anything about pro-level character building that’s going to be a seriously long video.
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    1. MSG
      10 April 2014 at 13:25
      Hm.. how long would that be ? 1fps screen-capture makes 1hr of work turn into about 3min timelapse video.. 20 hours of work -> 60 min video. I could watch 1hr of timelapse video any time :) This may be overly simplistic, but it can’t be that far off. And I agree, such videos may be quite long, but there must be a better tuned level of details in presenting the workflow so that we can all learn a little bit more than getting a general idea of how it is done.
    2. S J Bennett
      11 April 2014 at 00:52
      It would be great to hear from any of the studios how feasible this is. I expect they’ll be pretty tight on time.

Duncan McKean

9 April 2014 at 08:03

An excellent short and concise explanation. Thank you for sharing.

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