Planet Blender

Mercator Project: Matte Painting + Camera Mapping
BlenderNation - 2010-03-22 18:17:55

Details on their website.

testing the render branch of blender 2.5
blender 2.5 dev - 2010-03-22 13:48:00

I used my test scene from the previous post on blender render25 branch (32 bit) [27656]
on blender 2.49b I got this as before:
Time: 1h 6m 21s = 3981 seconds











On blender render25 branch:
Time:13m 28s = 748s











blender render was 5.3 times faster than blender 2.49b and it was 1.6 times faster than blender 2.5 alpha 2.

Comparison of image:
The Hair was by far the slowest part of the render here. also do take note of the colouration of the fur and cone. Unlike in the normal blender 2.5 alpha (see previous post) the monkey is an almost perfect replica of that in blender 2.49b.
see difference map: of blender 2.49b and blender render25










And see map of: blender 2.5 alpha 2 and blender render25













system and render settings:
the cone in ray-traced transparency, the sphere is a ray-traced mirror, the hair is using zbuff to fade the ends, the monkey is repeated by a array modifier, and has SSS. the background is a NURBS surface. there are 4 colored lights. (rendered on mac book pro 0sx 10.6, 2.53 core 2 duo, 4GB 1067 NHz DD3 ram, )

graphicall: Happy 50th BD Ton!
Twitter / graphicall - 2010-03-22 08:10:00

graphicall: Happy 50th BD Ton!

Teaser For “Probe”, A Short Film Using Blender 2.5 For VFX
BlenderNation - 2010-03-22 04:40:48

Basically, I’m leading up a team of students at the Digital Media Center, a part of East Tennessee State University, for a short (around 10 minute) visual effects film called Probe. We’re using Blender 2.5 Alpha/Beta (coupled with After Effects CS4) for our Visual Effects.  And how exciting would it be to couple [...]

The Producer’s Report #108 - New Teaser Tuesday!
Phil McCoy's Posts - Project London - 2010-03-22 03:18:41

Our regular Saturday management meeting was moved to Sunday this week to accommodate busy schedules and allow more time to finish work on the new teaser clip and review Project London with all of the visual effects in place. Today's meeting was a good one. We put all 10 reels together and watched it end to end.

Nate's comments, The film is completely amazing; seeing it with all visual effects is a stunning and wonderful experience! The teaser clip will knock your socks off."

The new Multiply Teaser Clip, featuing exclusive music by Half Acre Day, will premiere this Tuesday morning at Shorewood High School with Marty Ballew's video production class. It will appear soon after on this site, the official movie site, Vimeo, YouTube and Facebook.

We will also be publishing our first press release along with the clip. Project London Media Relations Guy, Ken Jager has prepared a terrific release for entertainment media news outlets and blogs all over the place (local, regional, national). Our goal is to put ourselves on the radar screen of everyone who cares about the success of crowd-sourced independent film-making.

---

Current Top Priority: Recruiting a sound design team. Interested? Contact Phil McCoy at phil@projectlondonmovie.com.

We have an ad for sound designers on Craigslist and posters up at Shoreline Community College and The Art Institute of Seattle. A number of sound designers have responded and we will be communicating with them shortly to talk about next steps.

The Sound Design Team (so far, we need more help!):
Justin Faylona
Bob Forward

---

Our meeting ran so long today, we didn't have a chance to pull together recommendations. Perhaps they'll return next week.

Cheers,

Phil McCoy, Executive Producer
on behalf of Nathan McCoy (left), also Executive Producer and Phil McCoy (right)

Sign up for our sometimes monthly email newsletter.
Become a fan of Project London on Facebook.
Follow Project London on Twitter.