Planet Blender

wireframe material in cycles
Vimeo / Blender 3D - 2012-05-18 04:08:48

I made an animation with two wireframe icospheres and a wireframe material rendered with cycles

local-guru.net/blog/2012/5/18/wireframe-material-in-cycles

Cast: Nikolaus Gradwohl

Tags: blender, 3d and wireframe

The Perfect Holiday – Competition Results
Blender Guru| High Quality Blender Tutorials - 2012-05-17 22:21:29

For this competition, the theme was simple: Create your dream holiday.

A total of 79 entries were received, covering a variety of different holidays ideas and locations.

Let’s start…

All Entries

Finalists

These are the entries that although didn’t win, look great and deserve a mention:

Nicely captures the atmosphere of a late afternoon fishing trip. The character really helps to sell the scene, and the water splashes around the fish are some of the best I’ve seen. The only thing letting it down is that parts of the scene appear too dark for the sky. But other than that, it’s excellent work!

Beautiful! Now that’s my kind of holiday The lighting and color grading in particular are very well done. I like the small details like the icicles, shrubbery, and snowy mountains in the distance. A solid effort indeed! Well done Deoce.

Definitely an unorthodox choice for a “perfect holiday”, but I encourage creative ideas. The characters are unique and the tornado in the background looks great. It could probably use a more effect color scheme and better lighting in places, but overall it’s a great effort

The colors in this image are fantastic! You captured the feeling of a sunset at the beach perfectly. My only critique is that the ocean seems to end after about 50 metres! But other than that I really like it. Well done Zekers.

I guess fishing is quite a popular hobby for blender artists? I love the nature and lighting in the background. The biggest let down would have to be the dark rocks and logs in the foreground, as they aren’t immediately recognizable to the viewer. But great work otherwise

Winner

Congratulations Nita! You’ve won $500 donated to a charity of your choice + a permanent spot in the Winners Hall of Fame.

The lighting, rendering and modelling in this scene is top notch. I like how you kept the background simple so that the focus is on the girl and the horse. Beautiful composition. The love heart shaped bokeh was a really nice touch too. The scene is an excellent portrayal of everyone’s childhood: pure bliss and living in the moment.

One of my favourite scenes yet!

Honourable Mention

It’s kind of sneaky to include this image as it wasn’t actually submitted for the competition, but instead uploaded 2 weeks ago on Facebook by Pratik Solanki (winner of the first competition). However, since it suits the theme so perfectly I just had to include it! Can you guess who the characters in the scene are?

A big thank you to everyone who entered this competition! The entries were all in all very impressive and I love seeing what the community is capable of.

Unfortunately I don’t have time to explain why each entry wasn’t selected as the winner, but if you list your name in the comments and ask for critiques, I’m sure the community will be more than happy to give you some pointers.

Stay tuned for the next competition to be announced next week

graphicall: Amazing! The new Tile compositor is now in trunk! Thanks to @atmind and everyone else who helped
Twitter / graphicall - 2012-05-17 17:48:31

graphicall: Amazing! The new Tile compositor is now in trunk! Thanks to @atmind and everyone else who helped

Sculpting a Male Human Bust in Blender
Blender Cookie - 2012-05-17 16:13:05

Hello and welcome to this video tutorial on Sculpting a Human Bust in Blender!

In this Blender tutorial by Kent Trammell you’ll be introduced to a basic sculpting workflow for creating a human bust. The final result of the tutorial is shown below.

What you’ll learn:

Starting with a simple base mesh, you’ll learn to shape form and anatomy with an artistic perspective in Blender’s Sculpt Mode with brushes like Grab, Draw, Inflate, Pinch, and Crease.  The majority of the sculpting is done symmetrically.  Towards the end of the sculpt we’ll pose the torso easily in Edit Mode with the proportional editing tool, while maintaining the sculpted detail in the Multiresolution modifier.

If you’re not familiar with Blender’s sculpting system then I recommend you check out our Introduction Blender’s Sculpting System video. It is slightly out of date now, but most of the content is still relavant.

Blender Hair Dynamics
BlenderNation - 2012-05-17 14:00:40

A great reference video showing different settings for hair dynamics. The .blend files are available for download as well.

Model: Remote Drone Spider
BlenderNation - 2012-05-17 10:00:11

By Lived. Lived writes: The RDS patrols the city streets looking for any last semblance of resistance, while the invaders sit quietly in office cubicles on the other side of the world. This file contains a rigged RDS model, with … Continue reading →

blender curve experiments - rail
Vimeo / Blender 3D - 2012-05-17 09:42:00

with this blender curve experiment I wanted to test if a curve can act as a trac and be extruded at the same time

local-guru.net/blog/2012/5/17/blender-curve-experiment---rail

Cast: Nikolaus Gradwohl

Tags: blender, curve and 3d

Blender at FMX 2012
BlenderNation - 2012-05-17 08:30:55

Thomas Dinges and Andy Goralczyk represented Blender at the German FMX conference this year. Thomas reports. Thomas writes: I was at the FMX conference, the 17th Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia in Stuttgart. It was a great conference … Continue reading →

Hugo Boss Sailing
BlenderNation - 2012-05-16 14:46:54

By Andreas Nicolas Fischer. Andreas writes: Here is video I art-directed for Schokolade Filmproduktion, commissioned by Hugo Boss. All 3d was made with Blender including fluids and the ocean. The boats are live action footage. The video will be shown on … Continue reading →

Original footage, now with ACES gamut
Mango - Open Movie project - 2012-05-16 13:27:44

Brecht is checking on Open Color IO, he did a quick export which results in the jpgs below. Interesting but not sure if this is 100% correct, it feels too much contrasted. We keep digging :) This is what Brecht did:

1. setenv OCIO /path/to/ocio/aces/config_1_0_3.ocio
2. oiiotool –colorconvert aces rrt_srgb in.exr -o out.jpg