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The Ian Report #484 - Whelp!
Ian Hubert's Posts - Project London - 2010-02-18 23:45:31

Whelp! Nate Taylor's almost done animating the final shot on the VFX list! It's looking pretty great!

I've been working hard on getting the storyboards set up for the animated intro/outtro. I'm spending a bit more time on it than anticipated, but I'm also arranging everything in 3D space and doing as much compositing as possible, so that when we get the final elements we can just switch 'em out lickety-split and re-render.

It's actually been fun, because I'm using a lot of techniques I generally only use for live-action compositing with these 2D elements (hand-held motion, flares, dust, slight parallax), and it's giving it a pretty unique/quick style. Just a few more shots to go and I'm done with the intro!

Once that's done with, it's time to advance on to the "polish" list (the list of shots we've gone, "yeah, this is passable, but it'd be great to kick it up a notch").

Ian Hubert
Writer Director

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Chaos & Evolutions; David Revoy painting course
Durian Open Movie Project - 2010-02-18 19:00:14

Another cool announcement for today: the long awaiting dvd from David is shaping up well! Those who attented his – already legendary – courses on the Blender Conference saw a glimpse of what to expect. For everyone else; get this awesome digital painting course (GIMP!) now! Oh, and yes… all Creative Commons, so it’ll be online and downloadable in no time as well. Getting a dvd will help us forward though! Expected delivery is mid march.

If you like to help us advertising this product? Check the banners preview, or download them all as a zip.

And then visit the Blender store here!

-Ton-

New training DVD: Open source painting course
Blender - 2010-02-18 18:49:00

David Revoy, art director of project Durian, will publish his digital painting course "Chaos and...

AV-sync
Blender Audio Development Blog - 2010-02-18 14:52:26

Hi there! Got yet another one: Recode of the Sequencer Audio System for better Audio-Video synchronisation. First I had a quite huge change in mind to the blender timing code: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:NeXyon/TimerAPI . That would perfectly support jack transport. But talking with Ton I realized that it’s not so good to do this way. So the [...]

Blender 3D, who pays the bill?
Blender & CIA - 2010-02-18 14:49:05

Free Software isn’t like free beer. There is a cost involving software development, and this cost needs to be paid. Who is currently paying this? What is the exchange currency here? I’ll take this as an opportunity to humbly share some personal ideas on the subject.

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Durian Casting line-up: Thom Hoffman and Halina Reijn
BlenderNation - 2010-02-18 14:40:39

Big news: Two of The Netherland’s best and most renowned actors have accepted to be voicing Sintel and “the Shaman” :Halina Reijn and Thom Hoffman! The recording will take place next Monday. More info on the Durian website.

Casting line-up: Thom Hoffman and Halina Reijn
Durian Open Movie Project - 2010-02-18 14:04:08

Two of Netherland’s best and most renowned actors have accepted to be voicing Sintel and “the Shaman”. I’m very happy to announce to have Halina Reijn and Thom Hoffman at our disposal next monday afternoon to record the voices, and help us to bring alive the main characters in our short film.

Halina and Thom both starred in Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book (2006), Halina acted with Tom Cruise in Valkyrie in 2008. Both are known to be excellent character performers.

Director Colin Levy is already nervously excited to work with them, he saw some of their work and was totally impressed! Apart from the audio recording, we’ll make videos of the facials and expressions for the animation crew.

Recording will be in studio Cinemeta Digital, Amsterdam. Special thanks to Kemna Casting: Betty Post & Arnost Kraus, for finding us the actors.

-Ton-

Nee’wis: Blender News Aggregator
BlenderNation - 2010-02-18 13:00:36

Nee’wis is a new Blender News Aggregator – it brings you news from a variety of news sources, like BlenderNation, BlenderArtists and CGSociety. It looks quite useful, although of course it’s not the first one to do this (see PlanetBlender and our own Community News). Nathan writes: Here is another web site for the blender community. We [...]

Plumiferos Premiere: Review
BlenderNation - 2010-02-18 07:33:32

The history of Plumiferos was a turbulent one. The ambitious project (the first feature-length movie made in Blender) was abandoned when it was 80% ready. A new team worked in secrecy for another year and a half, and finished the movie. The movie finally premiered this week in Argentina. Claudio Andaur (Malefico) was part of the [...]

Blender 3D, quem paga a conta?
Blender & CIA - 2010-02-18 04:45:59

Software livre não é sinônimo de software gratuito. Por mais que andem de mãos dadas, existe sim uma conta a ser paga, e queria expor algumas idéias sobre esta conta invisível que alguém está pagando.

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Uncharted!!(BlogPet)
CG系blog - 2010-02-18 02:03:22

FDTKの「Uncharted!!」のまねしてかいてみるね

どうもFDです！
ご無沙汰しております・といいつつ、いろいろ♪

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