Category: videos

  • 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.

  • Vimeo!

    Just wanted to talk about Vimeo, a flickr-like site for videos. You can see my videos at http://www.vimeo.com/user:djotaku/clips . Some of my readers may notice that I have these clips on my server (except Pao Bhangra). So why would you go to vimeo? Because my server has limited bandwidth. I think it uploads at 2…

  • 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)!

  • My (second) First Time with Blender

    Here’s my first (admittedly simple) render with Blender. I did one before, but I didn’t really know what I was doing. This time I’m gearing up to do some serious playing. Full size is available by click on the picture. I also created a very short animation (just over 1 second) to test the animation…