Category: Blender

  • Friends…

    Raul Domingo and the little Penguin. This turned out to be a lot harder and more complicated to put together than I imagined. Thankfully the programmers are working on a better implementation. (Click on the picture for a larger version that may work better as a background for your desktop)

  • He can move!

    Alright, I finally finished up the animation for Raul Domingo. In addition to all I did before, I now know how to lip sync, use the NLA editor, and do some other pretty neat stuff. I technically know how to make him blink, but I was having some technical difficulties and wanted to get the…

  • Progress on Raul Domingo

    I’m making really great progress on Raul Domingo. As I mentioned yesterday, the fact that I’ve already used Blender before is really helping me understand what I’m doing instead of hunting down where things are. Today I not only finished putting bones into the legs and feet, but I’ve also done a wonderful walking and…

  • Ah yes, his name

    I forgot to add this to the end of the last post and I’m a bit of a stickler for editing posts once they’ve gone public. I am going to name him Raul Domingo after my late grandfather who I never got to meet, but feel that I know via all the stories I’ve heard…

  • Latest Blender Project: A Humanoid

    I stress the word humanoid because it would be quite a stretch to call it a human. It is roughly human, but the head is not quite as spherical as a human head. However, I think you will notice quite a few improvements over my previous render, the penguin. Most notable should be that the…

  • Presenting: Penguin Flight

    You can see Penguin Flight, my first-ever CG short subject film, at drop the bomb production’s CG Animation Page. It’s at the bottom. Read the description first and then give it a shot. It took roughly a month to get that sucker down. I expect my next one to take longer as well as be…

  • render complete

    Now let’s see how it came out this time!

  • Round 2 of Rendering

    Got some advice on rendering. Apparently for the amount of frames I did, it’s much better to render them as individual frames and then piece together the AVI from that. So I chose PNGs since they are lossless. If the last render session is any indication, it’ll be nearly Thursday before I can put the…

  • Annoyed, Angry and Confused

    After waiting all this time, the [penguin animatin] file is unreadable or corrupted! Gah!

  • The Render wait is over

    The rendering of my penguin cartoon is over. Now I will review it and add a soundtrack. If everything goes right I hope to have it up by tomorrow or Wed at the latest.

  • Penguin Short…just a few days away….

    I finally finished the animation for the penguin short. It looks to be about 2 minutes long. (Not including opening and closing credits) I will now begin rendering and we shall see just how long it takes to render. I was originally going to do an HD render, but I’m afraid it will take much…

  • Suburban Plight

    I came across this page today where someone has posted a video entitled Suburban Plight. The movie is a combination of live action and computer graphics created with Blender! The result looks very nice. I’m glad the author decided to share it with us. Check it out!

  • Our Penguin Acquires a Plane

    He must have saved up a bunch of Pepsi Points.

  • He can see!

    My penguin now has the gift of vision. Doubtless he will complain about the crap environment I’ve put him in. There aren’t even any fish!

  • Penguin Aerobics

    My penguin now has bones! And you can see him do “Penguin Aerobics” in the accompanying short video.