[durgldeep]

Leaf test (my leaves, not Blender's ). Still no clue re lighting/colour but oh
well...

[whom]

Nice tree.


Been trying to get some flames down today but it's real difficult to get a decent result.... especially the flame movement, I have seen some real impressive renders in Blender though so it is possible to make a good fire....



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[durgldeep]

Thanks whom, that tree test was really interesting, partly because it's so
simple, ie. without so much clutter (as in Sculptris) the focus shifts to overall
design - or something like that.

Interesting flames there. Will be a while before I get to that stuff, I guess. Cool.
I want a campfire!

For anyone who wants a whirlwind tour of Blender 2.63, I think David Ward's
Tim & Elizabeth tutorial ("in the style of Tim Burton") is about the best series
out there: http://www.youtube.com/user/ward7299/videos

Mostly over my head but again, very watchable (good sound quality, thorough,
etc.).
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Speaking of Tim Burton (another chapter that's missing from my movies
experience):

Nightmare Before Christmas Full Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTf0CihnywE

In the style of... Yentl?


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[whom]

You know I really need to get down with both making a finished model and then rig it, maybe I should make them like weekly projects? ...hmm

I tried to model an ear but hmm no it's not good enough, speed model though but I need to get at it again....

[durgldeep]

whom, that ear looks good to me (first try? wow).

Re "finished model", I've been using that as an excuse to avoid rigging, hehe.
Then I stumble onto stuff like this (@00:36):



Philippe Patenaude- Character Animation Reel 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CncUQZoGCx4

Can't avoid it much longer.
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NB that's maybe a good example (above) of the collaboration thing
(upthread):

All animation are done by me
Character rigs and modeling not by me

Entirely solo work (all models, rigging/animating) seems quite rare.
Suddenly I feel... capable.

[samhell]

Found this through the SU FB page, seems like an interesting article. I only had time to skim it through.

http://www.sketchup-ur-space.com/2012/sept/learning-to-model-terrain-in-SketchUp.html

Damn, you guys have been keeping busy!

[whom]

cool videos guys.

Was trying to get a video out but I ran out of time now, still experimenting with fire....

[durgldeep]

[whom]

nice skull durgl. Yea fire is real complicated, a lot of settings confusing at least with my head. You gotta make a color ramp to be able to color the smoke and then some voxel data settings... hmm...

Here's the video I promised, it's not good though but I gotta start somewhere lmao.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym37EGlcIgU



...

[whom]

i'm still experimenting with the game engine when time is given to me, managed to get cast shadows to work and in this particular standalone player managed to get textures.
Textures didn't work with the export though when I ran the export script, not entirely sure what's going on there.....

[durgldeep]

whom, that fire demo is pretty neat. Had to watch it a couple times -
there's a lot happening there (different bursts/phases)... By your
description, don't think I'll be trying it anytime soon?

Cool game experiment - man, u really do like giving urself grief, hehe (for
me blender's hard enough as it is).

Was gonna say I'm empy-handed again (nothing to post) but I guess
colouring is worth mentioning: helps keep things sorted in this case
(several intersecting objects). Couldn't figure how to colour indvidual parts
of a group. Answer: use vertex groups.

Sorry it's the skull again, feel like I'm posting Blender's default monkey
head...

[whom]

yeez the forums are dead these days, kind of sucks to even post something.
Maybe forums are a dead form when there's facebook and blogs.

[samhell]

"*drums fingers impatiently*"

Umm, yeah. *shameful*

Whom, have no fear, FB & blogs can't compete with Sijun. Especially as a community. I think everybody is just really busy and you and Durgle are insanely active.

Me, I'm ear deep in deadlines for secret *Coughgenesis* stuff, so no time to do anythign else atm. ;____; I'll try to post something on the weekends though... And I still owe you an e-mail, Whom.

Take care!!

[durgldeep]

Nice work there, whom. Samhell, secret? We're sending the ninjas.

I turfed FB months ago - maybe why I have time for this stuff? Heh.

Currently stuck between what I *can* do and what I *should* be doing, ie.
options paralysis. Will wriggle out of it (stand by)...

[samhell]

Some nifty SU + photoshop + Kerkythea tutorials and everything inbetween that I stumbled upon today.

http://www.alexhogrefe.com/tutorials/

[whom]

hey durgldeep have you settled down yet?

A concept:

[whom]

samhell, you owe me an e-mail? hmm can't remember, hey let's see some Genesis stuff?

[durgldeep]

whom, interesting concept there.

Nope not settled yet, heh. Rigging, etc. got me fiddling with Aurora toolset
(below), which now (suddenly) kinda makes sense, ie. how everything fits
together - I'll never be a programmer, don't think.




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Oh, in the two-birds-with-one-stone category, the above is a variation on
South Island (Patel Grand), ie. discovery draft.

[whom]

durgldeep, aurora, is that a game engine? I am still myself just scratching the surface when it comes to to that, in the game engine in Blender...
Thanks btw, I have just been messing around lately...

More testing the design, I think it gets worse...

[whom]

A lot of goodies coming up.

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64




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[durgldeep]

[Lemur]

awesome guys! whom those orange and black ships remind me of something from childhood, sweeeet

[whom]

Lemur, appreciate it thank you. Now let's see some 3d.

durgldeep, I've got a new toy for you in Blender. Go to user preferences and then add ons and then add mesh, check ANT Landscape. A addon to make landscape, I think it would be helpful for you and samhell.

I made this pretty quick, been experimenting with it since I saw a pretty good tutorials last week where he made an entire island with that add on:

[durgldeep]

[durgldeep]

Lots of reasons not to post this - so here it is, mistakes and all.

Sculptris is vertex paint (apparently) [nope, see correction, below].... Skin
was too pink (realized too late), switching to a "green clay" base material
'neutralized' the red (works the same as traditional paint?), then had to
GIMP it to bring a bit of red back.

Sculptris still feels like cheating. The up side: can't avoid colour any
longer, heh. NB the stunned expression was the best I could do in a ~3x3
vertex space (irises):


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And one of those dramatic/flashy 'candy' shots...


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120929 - Oops, Sculptris is *not* vertex paint, sorry for the false info.
This surface is only six vertexes - I guess the eye issue (above) is more
about resolution or something...

[durgldeep]

Okay, covered marking seams, unwrapping and texture paint (for some reason
u have to add a material before adding texture, not sure I understand that).

Another go at quad-based mesh (convert sculptris model). Tried aping
someone else's method but screw that, gotta find my own way... Beard is a
good test (complex): a triangle splits two rows into three, a quad two rows into
four (and reduce in the opposite direction). Great fun...


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121001- Had to dig this up (below), from the 3d wannabe file, '05 (vector
drawing). XD

[samhell]

Lol, I love the vector drawing. Very Tron-like!!

Impressive work on the anatomy as usual. Can't wait to see how the actual storytelling will look once you get to that.

Just an idea, but maybe you should try a similar approach to the story format like I've used with Genesis and the Viking story? I'm absolutely convinced that the vertical scrolling is the best way to do online comics as far as the user interface goes.

[samhell]

Whom, thanks for the Blender landscape tip!

[durgldeep]

[samhell]

Well, if you do decide on a online graphic novel type of approach, you know who to contact.

Rosa had a nice intro and look to it but I lost interest the very second it turned into conflict/fighting. I just can't be bothered anymore when that is used as a way to make a story more interesting.

I must be getting old.