Steven's 3D World

Bmesh is in Trunk

2012-02-19T21:03:00.001+01:00

I read it some minutes ago, BMesh is merged to the trunk.

When you install Blender via SVN, then you know what you must do. When not you can wait till tomorrow and then check the Builder Bot.

Have Fun with BMesh!

Blender 2.62

2012-02-16T21:53:00.000+01:00

Some hours ago, Blender 2.62 was official released.

Features of this release are:

Improvements in the Cycles Render-Engine

Multi-GPU
Render layer
Render passes

Improved UV-Tools
A new Boolean library, which create much better results than before
Object Tracking. (→ Blender Wiki)
And a new modifier called Remesh

The Remesh modifier is a great modifier to great Minecraft like Objects. Left is my car which I working on, as Remesh object (and 1.5Mio vertices)

But you have more settings, as just Minecraft like, called blocks.

Check it Out!

Blender Podcast #14 is out

2012-02-14T23:40:00.000+01:00

In this episode Thomas Dingens and Campbell Barton speaks with the camera tracking developer Sergey Sharybin. Furthermore, they discuss the upcoming Blender 2.62.

We had the chance to interview Sergey Sharybin, who is currently working for the Blender Foundation. He is also part of the Mango Team! We also talked briefly about the upcoming Blender 2.62 release.

Check it Out!

McLaren MP4 Weekly Update

2012-02-11T00:39:00.000+01:00

The Chase - Trailer

2012-02-07T23:59:00.000+01:00

Here a Trailer I found via smcars.net

The Chase - Trailer from Philippe Gamer on Vimeo.

Already a very cool trailer.

Car video

2012-02-07T00:25:00.000+01:00

Found this video via Pixelplausch

Really Amazing!

McLaren MP4 C12 - Weekly Update

2012-02-03T17:55:00.002+01:00

The last update was, due christmas and system problems, 6 weeks ago. I tried to restart the car. But not really with success.

Open Artist

2012-02-01T17:16:00.004+01:00

Open Artist is a Linux distribution which based on Ubuntu. It is dedicated to Artists which have an easily Out-of-the-Box-System. That means you just install the system, and it it ready to run.

Picture by OpenArtist

All application which an Artist need, is ship with this Linux System, f.e.:

GIMP
Inkscape
Picasa
CinePaint
Grafx2
MyPaint
Alchemy
Pencil
Krita
Scribus
Blender
Luxrender
Mitsuba
Yafaray
MeshLab
Sculptris
VLC
Amarok
Audacity
OpenShot
Cheese
Flashplayer
Wacom related apps
Aptana Studio 3
Python 2 and 3
CodeBlocks
and a lot more! ...

Like you can see, OpenArtist is not just dedicated to visual artist. It can be useful for all types of artistic persons.

Check it Out.

Blender Podcast #13 is out

2012-01-26T13:44:00.001+01:00

In this Episode Thomas Dingens and Campbell Barton speaks about some development news.

Welcome to the first episode in 2012! We discussed some interesting development news, and talked about recent discussions on the mailing list, including the Interface and Collada. We also talk about what we have been up to the last couple of weeks.

Check it Out!

Bye, Bye Facebook

2012-01-25T20:06:00.001+01:00

In one week, every Facebook user will get the new Timeline function. With Timeline everyone can look through all of your activities on Facebook.

I decided in the past - when Facebook introduced Timeline - that when all users should use Timeline, I will stop using Facebook.

Now is the time.

You can still reach me on Google+ and Twitter, and naturally here on my blog =)

Techcrunch for more news.

Motion Capture with Blender

2012-01-16T14:24:00.000+01:00

Hey

I found this via Blend.polis.

BLOOP (Blender Loop Station) is a project of the University of Bremen which include Kinect in Blender via an addon. So you can easily create Motion captures with Open-Source software and cheap hardware (Kinect costs around 100€)

Check the Project Website!

Here an video in 3D (you need red/cyan glasses ;) )
An here a video from the BConference 2011

Blender E-Shop expand

2012-01-14T16:12:00.000+01:00

The Blender E-shop sell now third-party objects too. For example the Training DVD from Blender cookie. Like I saw the Low-Poly DVD cost now just 43.50€. Cheaper than before. :-D

Check the new store out!

Who is that on my pan cake?

2012-01-14T13:40:00.000+01:00

Starting with character modeling

2012-01-03T09:01:00.003+01:00

In the few view weeks I will work me through the character modeling. For me is the character modeling besides the animation one of the biggest and most difficult topics in the field of 3D-Modelling.

I found 3 very cool information sources for my problem:

Number 1 the german dvd Blender Techniken für Fortgeschrittene, to make a high-poly character in Blender.

Number 2 is a a great essay about human face modeling by Phung Dinh Dzung, an 2D/3D artist.

Check it Out.

Number 3 is a huge gallery of human reference photos. Very helpful.

Check it Out

An overview guide

2012-01-03T08:11:00.002+01:00

Here is an great overview guide for people which are new to the 3D genre.

Check it Out.

Overview about the job as Technical Artist in the Game Industry (Link)

2012-01-03T07:58:00.000+01:00

On this article gives Eric Chadwick an overview about his work as technical artist at Blue Fang Games - well known for the Zoo Tycoon series.

Check it Out.

The Polycount in Games (links)

2012-01-03T07:44:00.000+01:00

Hey

I found this via: http://saschahenrichs.blogspot.com.

The first article give you some advises when you look for polycounts in games.

How many polygons in a piece of string?

The second article give a overview of some polycounts in some newer video games on various platforms.

Yes, but how many polygons?

The last article give you some advices for an artists C.V and for an artists portfolio.

What new artists need in a C.V. and portfolio

CryBlend

2012-01-02T14:20:00.001+01:00

A community member of Crydev.net released some days ago, an Export Script for Blender, which helps you to export your Blender models to the free Cry Engine

Check it Out!
Found it via Blendernation
CryEngine Download

Things, which will change in 2012

2011-12-31T08:30:00.000+01:00

This are my graphical plans for the new year:

I will write an in deep comparison between the Unity Free version and the UDK (Unreal Development Kit).

Why I will do this?

In lot of forums people (programmer and artists) asks: "Which is better? Unity or UDK?" And because I am very interested in level design, I will create the same level in booth engines.

The second point is, that my blog need still a redesign. Okay the black-orange theme I use is fast in loading and it's not overloading in functions, but it looks not so much professional.
Create a own short film.
Try to make a simpel 2D-Game
And of course, a lot more pictures and animations :)

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-24T08:00:00.000+01:00

I wish all my readers Merry Christmas and nice Christmas days. Moreover I hope all your wishes come true and have fun with your chrismas gifts :)

Greetings
Steffen

The thing with the game programming

2011-12-24T00:41:00.000+01:00

Before I really started with 3D modelling I tried to program a video game. I had no really success with it.

Now I'm 21 years old and when I want to success my goal to get a job in the game industry, I must specialize on 1 thing - design or programming. I took the design way. Get faster and better results in less time.

But often when I see a cool indie game its tingly on my fingers. Last game which pushed me in the game programming direction was Nikki and the robots.

I think, I will restart a 2D game in 2012. ;)

Website of Nikki and the robots

Mango Pre-Sale

2011-12-24T00:40:00.000+01:00

Yesterday, the pre-sale for the new Open-Movie film starts. The Mango short film will be a real film with Sci-Fi CG objects.

During a Christmas period is always good moment to challenge your generosity! Here’s the opportunity again to show your commitment to Blender, to support open source development and improve our VFX pipeline, to help realizing a spectacular open film and – last but not least – to get a film credit again!

When you buy a DVD you support the Blender Foundation and will get a film credit.

Check it Out now:
Mango Website
Blender Shop

Blender Podcast #12 is out

2011-12-23T15:10:00.001+01:00

Episode #12 of the Blender Podcast was released, the last Episode for 2011

... [W]e talked with Jonathan Williamson, from cgcookie.com. We talked about his tutorial network and his work as trainer, and also had various chats about the future of Blender and next years plans and chances.

Check it Out.

Blender 2.61 Cycles Render benchmark

2011-12-20T21:55:00.001+01:00

On blenderartist, you can find a thread about a Cycles benchmark.

Image by Mike Pan

Just render these nice car, and submit your render times.

Check it Out.

Blenders binary size

2011-12-16T21:12:00.000+01:00

On code.blender.org you can find now a graph which show you the growing rate of Blender's binary size on 32bit systems over the last 8 years.

More infos you can find here

Mclaren MP4 C12 - Weekly Update

2011-12-16T20:27:00.000+01:00

This is my weekly update for the MP4 C12 - the project I currently working on. Blue Parts need still working.

Blender Podcast #11 is out

2011-12-15T22:44:00.000+01:00

Today, Episode 11 of the Blender Podcast was released.

This week on the blender podcast, We discuss some of the things going on recently, especially 2.61 release and related projects (Cycles, Tiling Compositor & BMesh)

Check it out.

MCampagnini ASE Export 1.41

2011-12-15T21:49:00.000+01:00

MCampagnini released version 1.41 of his ASE Export addon for Blender. Toggle consistent normals it's now supporting. It's the same like Blender's "recalculating normals"

Check out his website and the thread on the UDK forum.

Blender 2.61 is out

2011-12-14T23:39:00.001+01:00

Today Blender 2.61 was released.

Features:

Cycles
Real time Rendering Engine, which can also render on GPU
Ocean Simulator
A new physic system and texture, which you can use for cool water waves and ocean pictures,
Motion Tracking
Combine real video with CG objects
Dynamic Paint
Another new physic system, to create footsteps, blood or something like that.

Full release logs
Download page

Mclaren MP4 C12

2011-12-08T00:47:00.000+01:00

My current project, already a car ;)

Future

2011-11-28T15:38:00.000+01:00

I'm almost 1 year older and I have swear to do all to get in the future a job in the Game or Animation film industry.

That means for the future, I must

learn faster modelling techniques
(that's mean, not 4 weeks for a car; or something like that)
learn to control Blender's Render engine Cycles
find the perfect way for me
(f.e. character modeling, level design, environment artist, animator, ...)
play less PC

I want have all points on 26/11/2012.

Blender Podcast #10 is out

2011-11-19T22:22:00.000+01:00

Today, Episode 10 of the Blender Podcast was released.

Recently we talked with up with Sarah Laufer & Daniel Salazar (aka ZanQdo) and talked about their recent projects with blender, graphicall and teaching blender.

Check it out.

From Ubuntu to Archbang

2011-11-14T19:14:00.000+01:00

I used Ubuntu for almost 2 years. Started with Ubuntu 10.04 and now it ends with Ubuntu 11.10.

Ubuntu is a great Linux operation system, to start with the world of Linux. Ubuntu have all what you want, a cool live system, a graphical installer and a huge community.

But since the last 8 month I had a lot bad experiences with Ubuntu to stop the relationship with Ubuntu. I know Ubuntu is still a Linux OS, so Ubuntu not run always out of the box like a Windows system.

Because I have a slow internet connection, I upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 -> Ubuntu 10.10 by a friend with fast DSL connection. It take me 6(!) hours but all was fine and I had no data loss. Then later in June 2011 I downloaded with wget over days the Ubuntu alternate CD. The alternate CD should provide an easy way to upgrade the Ubuntu system offline. Great, I thought BUT then I had lot of error that Ubuntu can't upgrade because some special packages.

Okay, like a German sentence "One time, is no time!". I reinstall the full system. Lost all my nice application and config-data but had a nice fresh installed Ubuntu Natty System with "brand new Unity shell" (remember it was June 2011, in April Ubuntu Natty come out). As I first see Unity, my thought was just "wow!". But several weeks later:

several Integration problems with Blender
performance issues with Firefox while working on internet.

On 13th October Ubuntu 11.10 was released. I just thought great! Better Unity performance but without the ability to switch fast to Ubuntu standard (Gnome 2). Okay, because Openbox is a lot cooler than the silly Unity thing.

Downloaded fast (with 20 KB/s) the Ubuntu 11.10 alternate CD. Like the instructions for the alternate CD I updated all packages on my system to be ready for Offline upgrade. One day later the Update was finished (150 MB by 20 KB/s) and started Ubuntu and "x.org have a error ...". So I had a 1680x1050 display with a max. solution of 1280x760. For some minutes it will be okay because I want upgrade my system to Ubuntu 11.10. But I had exact the problems like with the last upgrade.

After such hard problems I install Archbang. Archbang is a lightweight Linux distribution based on the Arch Linux system, which come s just with a console. Because I had a 3G modem and not so much experience (I'm advanced but not a pro) in Linux I choose Archbang. Moreover Archbang is a rolling distro. What mean it is always up-to-date.

But Archbang need a lot of more love than Ubuntu Linux. It started with the text installer, than choose the fastest mirror to update your system. Change in some config files the keyboard layout and much more. But it's fun, and I'm happy when something run after a lot of trying. Furthermore you can see how a Linux system works because you use a lot more config files than the standard Ubuntu user.

One weeks is over since I installed Archbang and I don't regret it.

How you can use Blender 2.6 on Linux

2011-11-11T23:38:00.001+01:00

Because some people ask me "How you can use Blender 2.6 on your Linux-System".

Here is a small guide (based on my knowledge with Ubuntu):

1. Download the Blender you want use from blender.org or graphicall.org

2. Extract the folder to the place you want (f.e. /home/)

3. Open the extracted folder

4.1. Start the file named blender

4.2. maybe you must set the permission to "executable" (the last tick)

That is all.

Ford Mustang (high poly) - Final

2011-11-05T20:04:00.000+01:00

So here is the final image around the Ford Mustang.

Some informations:

Modelling: Around 3.5 weeks
Material and Texturing: Around 1 week
Compositing: 1 day
Polys: 250.000
Rendertime: 5 minutes

Final result:

A turntable will come later, when I solved the problems which I have with my system :)

Ford Mustang (high poly)

2011-11-03T18:51:00.001+01:00

MCampagnini ASE Export 1.4

2011-11-01T18:20:00.000+01:00

MCampagnini released version 1.4 of his ASE Export addon for Blender. Vertex Painting it's now supporting.

Check out his website and the thread on the UDK forum.

2011-10-30T20:41:00.000+01:00

At the moment I work through the German DVD "Blender 2.5: Fortgeschrittene Techniken from Ruben Buchholz " (engl. Blender 2.5: Advanced techniques) to improve my techniques to create characters. I suggest every German who is learning Blender and character modelling this DVD.

Topics of the DVD are:

Model and Sculpt a character
UV-Map the character
Rigging
Animation
Creating Landscapes
Compositing

Official Site of the DVD

DVD by Amazon.de

Gallery of Ruben Buchholz

But besides the DVD I want finish the Mustang till next Sunday (06/11/2011).

Ford Mustang (high poly) - Modeling IV

2011-10-24T20:41:00.000+02:00

So after long hours on the pc, I finally finish the bodywork on the car :)

Next steps will be material and texturing, and sure additional features like wheels and spoilers. ;)

Blender 2.60

2011-10-19T22:46:00.003+02:00

Yesterday, the Blender Foundation released the stable version of Blender 2.60.

The biggest changes are 3D-Audio, some animation features and motion capture service.

Check it out!

Blender 2.6, Blender Podcast and Ubuntu Oneric

2011-10-15T21:37:00.001+02:00

So, what happen in the past days?

The Blender Foundation released the second Release Candidate of Blender 2.6. At the moment still without the Cycles Rendering Engine. They will come in Blender 2.61 which will be release in December.

Download here.

Moreover, a new episode of the Blender podcast is out. The topic in the 9th episode is some Blender related stuff and Blender 2.6.

Download here.

And finally, Canonical released Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot. Ubuntu 11.10 have a better software center, an improved Unity version and the Gnome Shell 3 in the packagelist :)

But there are more features integrated in Ubuntu 11.10, check it out now.

Download here.

Ford Mustang (high poly) - Modeling III

2011-10-14T19:54:00.000+02:00

So it is Friday and the bodywork is not finished yet.

Why?

Maybe it's because I am still a beginner in car modeling or I choose the wrong car. Maybe the 300C was easier than the Mustang. But now it's too late to switch the car. I took the car for the fourth point on my to-do-list so I must do it. :)

Here are some pictures, what I create in the last 5 days:

version 1; filled the wire cage

version 2; looks great but had no attention on the polyflow

current version; create at first the part, which are easy to model

current model, with wire material

Ford Mustang (high poly) - Modeling II

2011-10-10T18:00:00.002+02:00

So after 2 long days of work I have now the cage finished. Maybe I have a (very) good workflow and can finish the bodywork on Friday :)

Ford Mustang (high poly) - Modeling I

2011-10-08T18:00:00.005+02:00

For the Ford E350 and for the BMW M3 I use techniques which I saw in several training videos around the internet. For example: Add a plane, use a mirror modifier, push the vertices on the right place, extrude the vertices and so one.

But for the Ford Mustang I will try a technique which I found some weeks ago. It's similar to the "standard" but instead you extrude the edges and have then more and more faces, you just extrude the vertices to have a wired cage of your model. (Found on Pixels or Atoms?)

Ford Mustang (high poly) - Preperation

2011-10-07T18:00:00.001+02:00

The first when create cars I need a blueprint and some reference photos. At the moment I look on several websites for a perfect car. I search often on this websites:

I hope that I found one till tomorrow.

After many hours of looking on the internet for the right car and many frustrating situations because my slow internet connection, I think I found now the right car for number 4 on my list ;)

The last choice was very hard because I want model a Ferrari F430, Chrysler 300C or a Ford Mustang. I took the Ford because he looks simpler than the F430 or the Chrysler.

Here are some pictures of the Ford:

Ford Mustang (high poly)

2011-10-06T20:30:00.006+02:00

This car will be number 4 on my list. You may wonder why after the underwater animation (#1) I model the car (#4). This is because I thought, in the first October week will come a training DVD for Blender 2.5 about the character creation and the animation. But sadly the DVD will come on 28. October.

So I take the decision to start with the car.

EDIT:
For a better overall view, I separated the steps of modeling (preparation, modeling, ... ) in various posts.

Summery:

Preparation
Modeling (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)
Material and Texturing
Final

Final Image:

Turntable:

In Progress

Underwater scene

2011-09-27T16:43:00.004+02:00

The Underwater scene which is my first key point on my to-do-list, is actually my work for the next weeks.
The first version of the underwater scene, you see here:

Sadly, I must say that I must restart my work on this animation, that's because the blend-file is bigger than 1 MB (ok, its not so bad) and the animation run in the blender viewport just with 5 fps (frames per second).

Here are my actually render of the animation:

Biggest changes to the version1 are:

The small fish, have just 400 polys, instead of 2500.
Instead of a perspective camera, I use a orthographic camera
I don't use the toon shader
I don't want a 20sec video file. I don't care for the length of the video ;)

I think, I will be finish next week.

Update - Sep 27 :

Update - Sep 29:

With the help of some blend.polis members I could create such a black border in the compositor. Moreover I deactivated enviroment lighting and added some decent lights.

Update - Okt 1:
So, finally I'm finish with my underwater animation.

To the last video, I change a little bit the lighting and add bubbles.

The first video is rendered with 16x Anti Aliasing and 2x Motion Blur. But the bubbles have through the Motion Blur a very crazy movement.

The second video, I rendered without Motion Blur and "Voila!" the bubbles moves right.
Hmm..
I'ts very crazy...

So this was number one on my to-do-list. :)

Some Inspirations from Coolvibe

2011-09-22T23:13:00.000+02:00

I found this very stunning art on Coolvibe.

on Coolvibe

My To-Do-List for the next years

2011-09-19T10:02:00.003+02:00

One of my mainreasons to come back to Blender was, to make such good 3D objects like in Transformers. To reach the goal to create a own Transformer I collect some keypoints which I will do before I model my own Transformer.

1. Finish the underwater animation

2. Create a character
3. Create the clothes for the character
4. A high poly car
5. A high poly house
6. A camera drive through the house
7. Design a level in the Unreal Development Kit
8. Human Animation of a low-poly character
9. Create a fantasy character with clothes
10. Interior And exterior of an car with animation
11. Create a military weapon (tank, jet, something like that)
12. Create and Render a landscape in Blender
13. Create a 2D creature with the graphic tablet
14. Create a low-poly, but high-detail monster
15. Racing animation
16. Write a tutorial
17. Sculpt a 3D object
18. Create a village with 2 persons (fully weared), 1 animal and min. 5 weapons under the Creative Commons license
19. Make a short film, with a minimum length of 5 minutes.
20. Create my own transformer with animation.

So this is the list for the next few years.

My thoughts about 3D software

2011-09-01T15:16:00.002+02:00

Some years ago, before I started discovering Blender, I thought Blender are just a small application to start learn the basics of modeling and later I can switch to a better program. Like Cinema 4D, Autodesk 3DS Max, Vue or LightWave.

The biggest disadvantage of Blender was for me the really ugly User Interface. You know, when you are a beginner in the sector of 3D modeling then it is very stressful when you open a window, in this case Blender 2.49, and the application bomb you with a lot of buttons. Buttons over Buttons. So I thought, "Hey, I watch some tutorials on several sites and then I have knowledge enough to switch to a better (and commercial) application.

But then several weeks later, trying to tame the monster of buttons, I throw Blender in the next bin. On the one hand, maybe because I lost my interest in Blender 2.49. On the other hand, maybe I was not ready to start in the 3D modeling and animation. This sounds crazy now, but let me explain. When I now see an 3D-object, I can imagine how I would model the object and how long it maybe take. But in the past i hadn't this feeling for 3D-objects. I just thought "Hey, what an cool object. I just need some cube and planes. Add some modifiers and 'Viola!' I'm finish." But you know for yourself (recommend that you have some experience in the 3D-field) it's not so easy to create great models. You need a lot of experience and "Trial and Error" to get what you want.

After one year, in which I not modeled, I gave Blender a second chance in my life. This was the time, was the first alpha builds of the Blender 2.5 series was published. With the 2.5 series, Blender switched from a "Button Monster" to a really cool application, which I love till now. But what I realized last year (2010) was that it is very hard just learn the Blender skills from various Blender tutorial videos from the Internet. Okay, I mean it is not impossible but you know what I mean. So on Christmas 2010 I become a really good beginner DVD tutorial to improve my beginner skills. And the best was, it was in my mother language German. Not that I'm so bad in English but to establish a good basis in this application, a German teacher is better than an English teacher.

And now? 9 months ago I started intensive learning Blender by the DVD. I earn a lot of experience and good and bad critics about work I do. Moreover I'm now a member of a two-person game developer team. And I help other people to understand some techniques of Blender, like skinning or basic character animation.

And compared to my beginning with Blender in 2008, I think now: "Why the industry don't use Blender?" Okay I still trying some demos of the big ones like Vue or Cinema 4D but I don't like this programs anymore. Oh yeah, you have some great functions, like In-GUI-Renderer or several generators for Real-time-fluids. But for what? You must pay for all big commercial application, except Vue, 600€ upwards. And for a Blender user the operation of Cinema for example is a horror. Blender 2.59 is very dynamical when you use it. "Shift" + "A" is a simple shortcut to open the Add-Menu. Or "Space" to open a dynamic search menu, where you can search for the functions you desire. But in all commercial applications (correct me, if I failed) you use to 99% the mouse.

But I looking in the future. I still want be an Game Artist and I will reach the goal.

:=)

The Blender Podcast #7 is out

2011-08-31T16:07:00.000+02:00

Today was a new episode of the Blender Podcast published.

This episode we look back on 2.5x development where we discuss with Nathan Letwory how it went, the people invoked, the problems that had to be resolved and some of the remaining issues nobody got around to fixing yet

Episode #7

Blend Swap - Military Contest

2011-08-28T15:59:00.001+02:00

On Blend Swap, started some days ago a contest about military vehicle.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen!
I’d like to welcome you to the first ever Blendswap model competition. In this new
opportunity for Blender artists, we’re offering fabulous prizes for the best military
vehicle models. A variety of categories are available, so there’s no excuse for not
entering. Simply grab an idea and start modeling! Once you’re done, all you have to do is
upload your model to Blendswap under one of the special contest categories. At the end of
the judging period, we’ll judge the best model in each category.
Models may be submitted to the following categories. Each model may belong to only one category.
Land Machines: tanks, APCs, and the like.

Walkers: Power suits, mechs, etc. Remember realism.

Air Power: Planes, jets, helicopters and similar vehicles. Space vehicles are not a focus of this competition.

You found the contest here.

Warning: No texture of CGTextures are allowed!

Project London - Blender

2011-08-27T19:35:00.000+02:00

I found this via the Blender Siggraph 2011 reel and Blendernation.
Its just amazing, what is possible when you use Blender.

The video:

Project London: Unleashed! from Phil McCoy on Vimeo.

The Interview on JawBone.tv

The official homepage

Kajimba - short movie - Blender

2011-08-27T19:04:00.003+02:00

Kajimba - snippets from Kajimba on Vimeo.
A compilation of old and new for all the fans and the uninitiated.

http://www.kajimba.com

Interview with Ton Roosendaal on Siggraph 2011

2011-08-27T18:49:00.001+02:00

Found this interview with Ton Roosendaal via Blendernation. Ton Roosendaal is the founder of the Blender Foundation. He spoke of the future of Blender and future Blender projects.

Portal: No Escape (Live Action Short Film by Dan Trachtenberg)

2011-08-26T22:46:00.000+02:00

Found this via Pixelplausch.

Blender Siggraph 2011 reel by Mike Pan

2011-08-26T21:48:00.000+02:00

Just impressive :-)

Mac 'n' Cheese Short film - Autodesk Maya

2011-08-22T18:22:00.000+02:00

Mac 'n' Cheese from Mac 'N' Cheese on Vimeo.

Important Things short movie - Blender 2.5

2011-08-22T00:40:00.002+02:00

Important Things Teaser ENG from Plasma Infografia on Vimeo.

Cool Wall-E shortfilm - Blender 2.5

2011-08-21T23:39:00.001+02:00

"Wall E meets cube" Blender Animation from Liquid Orange on Vimeo.

Free Cryengine 3 SDK

2011-08-20T14:12:00.001+02:00

Some days ago Crytek released a free version of her CryEngine 3 SDK.

CryENGINE Free Use
You can use CryENGINE 3 for free in educational facilities, even if you are charging tuition. We have always offered our engine for free to educators, but now individual students can also freely download the engine and use it to learn about real-time 3D development.

CryENGINE 3 is also free for non-commercial use; if you are distributing your game or application for free (and not charging for your work in producing it, whether directly or indirectly), no additional license is required.

CryENGINE 3 Independent Developers Platform
We want you to make games with CryENGINE 3 that people will want to play. We hope that your work will lead to a product you can commercialise. If this is the case, before you can sell your work or your game, you must seek a development license for CryENGINE 3.

CryENGINE 3 for Independent Studios, Free To Play Games or Downloadable Games
Crytek has attractive options for smaller games built with CryENGINE 3, with shorter development timescales. If you want to move your game onto platforms other than PC, or you need access to CryENGINE 3 source code, please contact Crytek to find out more about our licensing for Independent Studios.

You can download the SDK here: LINK.

Freestyle - sculpting software

2011-08-13T01:23:00.002+02:00

I found this incredible video of a sculpt software who is still in development.

Freestyle from Hypnothalamus on Vimeo.

Blender Podcast #6

2011-08-13T01:19:00.000+02:00

A new episode of the Blender Podcast is available. This episode cover an interview with Andrew Price, you might know him from Blender Guru.

You can download the Episode here.

New character: Jan

2011-08-12T12:47:00.000+02:00

New character: Jan

2011-08-09T01:35:00.000+02:00

You saw my Character, which I created with the BSoD 2006 tutorial. Now after the tutorial I learned a lot of modeling, rigging, Key-Frame-Animation, Shapes and some more.

So I will start in the next days with my first (own) character. I name it Jan.

It's just a simple scribble, I make with Alchemy and a mouse (because I was too lazy to plug in the graphic tablet :P). Furthermore it's just a simple character, with two eyes, a big mouth without teeth and two feets.

My goal is to end this character, on Friday. Earlier - ok, but not later :-)

Some Inspirations from deviantArt

2011-08-08T18:04:00.000+02:00

Some Inspirations from deviantArt

2011-08-07T23:50:00.000+02:00

Some Beyond Good and Evil artwork from deviantArt

2011-08-07T18:39:00.001+02:00

In the last few days I just not modelling i finished Beyond Good and Evil, too. I really love the game :-)

This is some Artwork i found on deviantArt:

Beginner Charakter modelling and animation

2011-08-07T17:51:00.003+02:00

On Blenderartists I found a link to an PDF tutorial, which called BSoD 2006 Charakter Animation. After some time spending on modelling I create this model:

Finally I create my first real character animation, with a walkcycle and a hand wave.

Just a simple character animation with blender from Steffen Lauterbach on Vimeo.

The Nokia N9

2011-07-26T02:22:00.001+02:00

A beautiful phone. And a beautiful operating system.

Ford e350 Final

2011-07-25T20:12:00.000+02:00

So this is the final render of the Ford E350. It's not good but okay.

Sayonara

2011-07-21T23:57:00.000+02:00

A short story about two unlikely friends saying goodbye. A young man named Charles just lost his home. He spends one last day with his best friend, a sea turtle, before moving on.

Sayonara from Eric Bates on Vimeo.

The Silverstone Wing

2011-07-21T23:54:00.000+02:00

This impressive CG film I found on Vimeo.

Enjoy it

The Silverstone Wing from INK on Vimeo.

BMW M3

2011-07-18T19:51:00.001+02:00

Besides the Ford E350 Model I create a BMW M3

Ford E350 continue

2011-07-13T17:20:00.001+02:00

I've heard on the suggestions of the German CG Forum cg-creatives.com and maked the Ford to a low-poly Ford.
You see here the finished Ford, the next steps will be Texturing.

Idea of order 3D objects

2011-07-13T00:51:00.001+02:00

Some Weeks ago, I had the Idea that other people can order low-poly object by me. The reason is, that often 3D-programmer with beginner status in many forum ask, "Who is 3D-Artist? Who can help me?". I will help this people, because it's sometimes really hard to concentrate on 2 business - programming and modelling.

And with my own history, I know that for example, You try Game Engine's like UDK or Unity but you have no modells. Ok, on internet are sites like Turbosquid or something like that, but often the free objects not fit for your desire.

Interview with Ben Dansie

2011-07-11T20:06:00.000+02:00

An very good Interview with Ben Dansie on Blendernerd.com

Ben Dansie is a freelance artist who (quite obviously) uses Blender. But just saying ‘uses Blender’ is quite the understatement.

Ben has worked on various projects both individually and in a team, one of which was Sintel and is well know for Sintel Lite which is a freely downloadable optimized version of the original Sintel model, great for animation tests, etc…

Interview with Ben Dansie

Ford E350 continue

2011-06-30T23:53:00.000+02:00

3 weeks ago, i wrote the last post about the Ford E350 project. Since then I try to handle this problem:

It take a lot of time to fix this silly problem, but now i have fix it like you can see:

Now the car will get some additional features like lighting and wheels.

Impressive short film

2011-06-08T20:07:00.000+02:00

Hey everyone,

I found this impressive short film on vimeo. It's just "wow".

Nokta . from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

Ford E-350

2011-06-08T17:38:00.000+02:00

Ford E-350 wireframe

After I saw on Sunday "Resident Evil: Extinction" on TV, I was so impressed of that I thought one element of the film I can create, too.

But to model a zombie like in RE, my skills on modelling are still to low. So they was still the landscape and the vehicles. So I decided to create an vehicle. As you can see on IMCD there some really good cars. But for the reason I had now experience with creating cars in Blender I choose the "Ford E-350 Ambulance car".

At the moment, I'm on the point where I must improve the wireframe.

an easy castle

2011-05-30T19:47:00.000+02:00

This is my current project, an old castle. At the end it will looks more realistic, but for now the various colors show various materials.

3D World here am I

2011-05-29T00:16:00.000+02:00

So let's start to tell a bit about me:

I started with the 3D-Modelling in 2008, after I searched for Game Development. But after 2 month I removed Blender from my computer, because the User interface was horrible. 2 years later, the development of Blender was advanced and become a new user interface. So I have make a second try and install Blender 2.5.

With the new interface, it's just wow. The new interface looks better than the old, its looks like other 3D-application, like Cinema 4D or 3DS Max.

After several month of trying and watching online tutorials, i buyed a german tutorial DVD, made by the german teacher Helge Maus. This happened 7 month ago.

Today I have still fun with the world of modelling, texturing and of course with Blender. :)

In this blog I will write about things I model by me and will give news about the software I use.

I hope you enjoy reading this blog and I'm glad to hear your feedback.