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Life in the Sea - a kid's song music video

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And now for something completely different: David Ward created a music video for kids.

Hey, I finally resurrected and finished a project I'd been playing with a couple of years ago; it's a fun little song about a submarine and life in the sea that I wrote and recorded myself. Check it out if you like:

I first started this project a couple of years ago after my tutorial series featuring the Submarine.

After facing much impatience with Cycles, I sort of lost interest for a couple of years. When I showed the unfinished project to my fiancé (who's a Pre-K teacher), she encouraged me to finish it so she could show it to her class. So I jumped back in with new motivation, and opted to go back to the old tried and true Internal Render, which I've always had more success with (I'm not a patient man, and Cycles is so slow on AMD GPUs). So here's the finished project, Henry Seaworth singing "Life in the Sea", which was written and recorded by Yours Truly.

About the Author

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Bart Veldhuizen

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 Head of Community at Sketchfab.

7 Comments

  1. Cute little Character and a good singer too :) Its funny to read your post cause exactly the same has happened to me. My wife and me hab the idea of a bavarian Beer mug who ist sitting in a typical bavarian pub giving comments on the people sitting there. With a lot of bavarian humor. - We started the project but I got lossed cause I was a newbe in Blender. Years later my wife "forced" me to work again on the mug. - And its going quiet good...

    More to come :)

  2. David Ward! It's good to see stuff from you - your CG Cookie stuff taught me almost everything I know about character animation in Blender (I eyeball it at about 80% you, 20% Lee Salvemini).

    The thing about music videos and nursery rhymes for little kids on YouTube is that it's surprisingly huge arena that no one talks about. The 14th most viewed video on YouTube with 1.8 billion views is "Wheels On The Bus". Here's hoping you go viral!

    • Agreed, it's somewhat of an untapped market :D I always was amazed at the lack of quality in things like The Backyardigans. I could do LOADS better than that, why isn't MY stuff on there? Well, you can't win the lottery if you never buy a ticket, so here's my ticket :D

  3. Hey David Ward,

    I hope you'll never lose interest in Blender again. You are one of my absolute most favorite blender teachers on the web!
    I watched ALL your Johnny Blender series (and other!) and you learned me a bunch of interesting things about character creation with Blender - all for free! Thank you very much for that! :-)

    I understand your frustration about Cycles. Cycles is marvelous for illustrators. When they have finished their preparations, they press the render button, wait half an hour (or a couple of hours), and the result is a very beautiful illustration. Very often Cycles offers surprisingly breathtaking results. But for an animated movies maker every extra minute multiplied by 2500 frames is a big disaster! :-) The Blender Internal is a blessing for hobby animators! :-) (I hope they never dismiss him.)

    • Oh I've not lost interest in Blender at all, just in the Tutorial Realm :D I don't have as much spare time these days to make tutorials, when there's Andrew Price and the Blender Cookie guys out there churning them out on practically a daily basis. Every once in a while I'll figure something out that I can't find the answer to otherwise, but for the most part, anything you need to know, someone else has already done a tutorial for it :P

      Yeah I agree Cycles is great for still shots, but for the amount of time needed per frame, I just don't the patience or resources to animate anything very detailed with Cycles. Maybe since AMD is now a sponsor of the Blender Foundation, we'll see more support for OpenGL, and AMD GPUs will be even better than Nvidia's :D

      • Yeah I agree there are A LOT of tutorials nowadays. There is in fact an oversupply. And as an artist YOU have to decide for yourself if you want to make tutorials or if you want to make art yourself. I respect your choice - ànd what you have realized allready in the past.

        Have a good (blender)time!

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