Our short animation film now has been published online for everyone to watch and spread! It’s been an exciting moment for our team, and for everyone who as eagerly awaited this moment. We hope you enjoy it!

Visit the download page for Youtube link, file mirrors and torrents.

Next on our todo is wrapping up the 4-dvd box release, NTSC/PAL discs with extras and documentary, and 2 DVD-ROMs with tutorials, and all the data to reproduce the fim entirely.

-Ton-

in the past days I came across a very nice tutorial from Jonathan Williamson, “Creating a Microscopic Virus Effect” (Blender Cookie):

In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial we take a look at how to create a microscopic virus effect in a few short steps. The tutorials covers modeling, materials, lighting, and some simple compositing.

You can create this nice image in only around 40 minutes.  Here Is my version as I followed the tutorial (could need some work, but works as a wallpaper):

(click on image  for larger version)

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After trying  to render some fluid in blender, I think I need more RAM:

Linux vs Blender

The bottom shows the System a few seconds before Blender got killed. The RAM and Swap where both at 99% (hard to take the screenshot accurate enough with a laggy system ).

Info:

After baking some fluid simulation, I wanted to render the fluid with smooth shading and Subdivision Surface of two. The baked fluid had a resolution of 256.  My current System is a Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2,4Ghz with 4Gb of RAM and 2Gb of Swap. Enough for the mostly testing stuff I’m doing, until now .

Baking took a long time , 9 hours for >30 frames. That’s because Blenders volume/mesh based fluid simulation runs at only one core.

I used a pretty basic setup, see screenshot below:

Blender Fluids Screenshot

So let’s continue the funny stuff

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there are some very interesting changes in Blender, related to Mesh Painting. Miika Hämäläinen aka MiikaH has written code for Mesh Painting. Just have a look at his videos:

wet maps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgP73qjDmJY

changing the colour:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM7NmN4e0k0

different colours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czYugUWVbEQ

wet mirror effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjl1I3y7uec

displacement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG0KyT9AOeI

He also has written a basic tutorial, you can find it here. If you want to test it, have a look here. He provides a patch and special builds on GraphicAll.

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I have added one of my older projekts to the project list. It’s called FastMountApp. FastMountApp is an application for minimalists. Combine it with a shortcut and you can easily mount and unmount your USB devices and cdrom’s/dvd’s with only one click. Here some screenshots:

Note: This is a very small tool with only a basic functionalities.

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Nachdem ich nun das Modell des Weckers mit Blender in 3D fertig habe (1)(2)(3), hab ich heute begonnen, den Wecker zu texturieren:

Für den Anfang erstmal ganz nett . In den nächsten Tagen werde ich versuchen die Materialien noch “echter” wirken zu lassen. Auf der Projektseite seht ihr den aktuellen Stand.

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Hier mal ein paar neue Bilder von meinem Wecker, den ich in 3D modelliere:

Hier Die Rückseite mit mit dem Knopf für die Einstellungen:

So jetzt mit Löchern für die Schrauben und Resetknopf:

Jetzt das Batteriefach nochmal genauer:

Jetzt hat das Batteriefach auch eine Halterung und eine Batterie:

Klappe zu:

Wie man eine Batterie einlegt, möchte ich später noch animieren.

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How i showed you yesterday, I started to model a alarmclock. Here the original:

Here the actual status:

From atilt bottom:

Here you can see the “foots”:

From the bottom:

Here you can see the battery entry and the speakers.

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Am Wochenende habe ich erste Gehversuche mit Blender gewagt, dank guter Tutoriums(DE) habe ich das auch ganz gut hinbekommen:

Meine Werke, im Moment nur eins, könnt ihr euch hier ankucken: Blender Gallery. Da viele Funktionen immer wieder auftauchen, habe ich mal eine Tabelle mit den wichtigsten Tastenkürzeln erstellt.

Im Moment modelliere ich meinen Wecker, hier eine Vorschau:
Zur WIP-Gallery.

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