Welcome to Papercraft Island
Paul Chambers just shared this GORGEOUS low-poly animated world. Check it out!
I wanted to share with the Blender community my recently completed low-poly animation. It started as an exercise to better understand the rigging and animation tools in Blender. It was also a fun opportunity to go back to the Blender Internal Renderer after most of my recent projects using Cycles or other similar global illumination driven renderers.
As the project progressed I also saw an opportunity to move from a pure low-poly look into something more akin to papercraft or origami.
During the course of the project I read through some great books that helped immensely and would wholeheartedly recommend to all Blender users:
- Illuminated Pixels by Virginia Wissler
- Digital Lighting & Rendering by Jeremy Birn
- The Animators Survival Kit by Richard Williams
- Disney’s The Illusion of Life by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas
You can view the video below, and I have other images and Sketchfab models from the project here.
Amazing work Paul, i enjoyed your animation very much. What are you planning to do in the future?
Thank Yanal! Gosh – so many ideas. I’ve had a Substance Painter license kicking around for a while from when they put it on sale over the holidays and still haven’t had a chance to dig into that so I want to try something with that.
Also, have an idea for a character animation along the lines of http://www.11secondclub.com
Too many ideas, not enough time!
Oh SP is something I’ve been willing to check for a while now, but yeah I know the feels! You gotta keep me up to date with your work, i’d like to see more!
And by coincidence, just got news in my inbox that Mari now has a non-commercial free license to check out its texture painting goodness…
https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/non-commercial/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=eloqua&utm_campaign=newsletter-may-16&elqTrackId=ea01b064f52d46d1b6865ca9ed55052c&elq=9c59d336ac8f457ebc30424c6a04b4be&elqaid=2040&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=1621
Great piece!
Have you considered rendering for VR?
Thanks Steve! Yep – It does have VR possibilities. I need to research further, because of the way I built the file with a bunch of referenced models I’d probably have to rebuild large parts of it. But it’s definitely peeked my interest for future projects!