Category: computer animation

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Penguin Licenses

    Oh, all of my penguin CG renders are, of course, copyrighted to me. However, I am copylefting them under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 which you can read about by clicking on the link.

  • Is this a blog about rendering penguins?

    It seems that way recently, but that’s just because I haven’t had much time for anything else. It’s been a crazy few days. That said, here I’ve added light inside the penguin’s house. and here he is snoozing on the bed I just made him. Once I make him a few more things, I think…

  • Open Sesame!

    As you can see, he now has a door, but it’s a bit dark in there as I haven’t added any furniture or a lamp yet.

  • The Penguin has a home!

    Unfortunately for him, I haven’t built an opening into his igloo yet, so he’s kinda stuck outside. That’s fine because I haven’t made him any furniture yet! But then again, I haven’t made him eyes yet, so perhaps he doesn’t know about the igloo yet? So much to do and so little time to do…

  • Penguin Progression

    Here’s my second render. I love penguins and they’re the mascot of Linux, so why not work on penguins. Here’s how I progressed with my penguin as I learned more last night. And….BONUS….here’s my second video. This one’s 8 times as long as the previous one! Watch Penguins Jump (and Cameras move)!