Posted in Animating with Blender, Artwork, News, Snowmen on Dec 27th, 2011 24 Comments »
I’m completely out of time, so I’ll call it done. Below you have HD embeds of Snowmen Will Melt Your Heart on both Vimeo and youtube. Pick your favorite. I also made a 1920 x 1080 render of the coda shot for my desktop backgrounds. Gets me in the holiday spirit. Cheers! Vimeo: youtube: And […]
Posted in Rant on Dec 20th, 2011 16 Comments »
I saw today that The Essential Blender, the Foundation’s official getting started book that I was fortunate enough to spearhead and edit a long time ago, is still selling on Amazon. In fact, it was #38 in the 3D Graphics category. I also noticed several reviews from the past year in which the people who […]
Posted in Animating with Blender, Education, Snowmen on Dec 6th, 2011 No Comments »
In my last post, I put up a link to a rough render of the last shot of Snowmen and said that it needed effects. Particularly, I wanted to include multiple particle systems for laser blasts, dynamic paint on the ground where the lasers hit the snow, and smoke simulations coming from the impact locations. […]
Posted in Animating with Blender, Artwork, Snowmen on Dec 2nd, 2011 26 Comments »
Did a straight to video render last night of the last shot. Still some tweaking to do, and I have to add all of the effects like snow, lasers, smoke etc. I can see the end of the tunnel though! Run Away! from Roland Hess on Vimeo.