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Playing with Blender’s New Hair Particles
So, I was working on fixing up some armature problems with the characters for I’m Not Mad. If you watch David’s Lip Sync you can see there were some major fixes needed for the Dan and Dave characters. Well, in the time since I started working on the character models Blender 2.46 was released. In…
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Robots is Released
A few days ago, I released my lastest video, “Robots“. It’s a fan-tribute music video based on the song of the same name by Flight of the Conchords. Check it out and enjoy.
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Fish Wish, A Vancouver Film School Project
I found this online and I think it’s cute. Scientifically, however, I have a bit of a problem with the ending.
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Revisiting the Experiment
Almost a year ago, I mentioned that I had discovered the site www.mytoons.com. In that blog post I mentioned that I felt my animation wasn’t really getting the amount of views I hoped they would get. So I put my animation on mytoons and when the results weren’t immediately different, I completely forgot about my…
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Big Buck Bunny has been Released to the net!
Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo. Here’s the Blender Institute’s latest movie. It’s much, much better than Elephants Dream. Check it out!
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What I’m Up To – Animation-Wise
Well, I’m filling up my space time with programming and animation. Here’s what I’m currently up to with animation. First of all, there’s “Sugar“. I have the script and most of the props complete for the animation. I got a little frustrated when I was working on Nick’s armature and started working on programming and…
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FarmerJoe – An easier render solution.
I’ve been very happy until now with drqueue. Developed by Jorge Daza, it’s a very nice render farm management software with a nice GUI. It worked relatively well for me for “Jose’s Dinner” and “Schrodinger’s Cat“. However, there were two big kinks in using drqueue. First of all, Windows support was so sketchy it might…
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MakeHuman makes huge strides
You’re probably asking yourself two questions. 1) When did Eric get awesome at modeling humans? and 2) What are these bald, naked women doing on this site? In fact, you probably asked yourself those questions in the reverse order. Extra points for the MakeHuman team if you didn’t even realize those were computer images and…
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Upgrading to the latest Dr Queue Render Manager
Since I don’t have any animation needing to be rendered for a few months, I decided it was a great time to upgrade Dr Queue to the latest version. I’d heard that a lot of improvements had been added since version 0.60. So let’s see how the upgrade process goes: On Mario, my Fedora 8…
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11 Second Club 7th Pass
11 Second Club – Nov 2007 – seventh pass from djotaku on Vimeo.
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Night of the Living Dead Pixels
Check out this great short film made in Blender. It’s a must see!! I can’t say more without ruining the plot.
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Fifth Pass at 11 Sec Club
11 Second Club – Nov 2007 – fifth pass from djotaku on Vimeo.
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Fourth Pass at 11 Sec Club
11 Second Club – Nov 2007 – fourth pass from djotaku on Vimeo.
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Third Pass at 11 Sec Club
11 Second Club – Nov 2007 – third pass from djotaku on Vimeo. Just need to lip sync the lil guy.
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First Pass at Nov 2007 11 Second Club
11 Second Club – Nov 2007 – first pass from djotaku on Vimeo.This is my first pass. I’ve gone through and animated nearly everything for the character on the right (mancandy) except the lip sync. To see it in full HD awesome quality, follow the link containing the video’s title right under the video. I’ve…