Daworm

Hello all. Not much of a post this round. Just a quick update on things. I am still around, however I haven’t done much in the way of blender for a few weeks. Been a Tad hectic with RL. However I plan on getting back in to it in the new year.

Just posting this from my Google phone. Quite awesome and plan on using it more. MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!!!

So after about a month of messing about with Blender I decided to give it a go at making something “decent” with it.

This is what I’ve done so far:

My first decent head! from Victor Hardy on Vimeo.

Some still image renders of what I’m at so far.

Next step is to get some semi-decent texturing on it.

Ok, for the last few weeks I’ve been messing about with Blender. A free open-source 3D Modeling software, capable of great things from what I’ve seen and read so far. Don’t believe me? Have a look at some works (internet sourced).

I’ll post some of my works in a day or so.

Image Renders

Blender 3D - Tiny mechanical bird

Blender 3D - carafea

Blender 3D - 2d to 3d

Blender 3D - vieja chusma

Please note that none of the above are my works, just an example of what’s possible (found via flickr search)

Animations

Elephants Dream Blender foundation produced	Big Buck Bunny Blender Foundation produced
View more on Blender.org or search Youtube, Vimeo, etc.

Fully Playable Games

The amazing thing about Blender is that it has a built-in game engine, that (yet again) the Blender Foundation have assisted in having made to show the sorts of things that are possible.

Yo Frankie

But that’s just some content… there is lots more out there, if you have any questions jump onto any number of community websites.

Two that I am on at this stage:

• Blender Underground
• Blender Newbies

But there are MANY more than that out there.

I’ll make another post in a few days with some good tutorial links, but quickly on that note have a look at the approx 5 hours of tutorial videos available on Blender Underground. An awesome entry level of information available within them!

I don’t have much (if anything) to really add today.

Other than some general ramblings…

A while ago now I picked up a HTC Magic running on the Vodafone Network, and it’s been purring along nicely. Now running many various apps on it, My Tracks, Advanced Task Manager just to name a couple of utility apps, and an awesome online (and free) game… Cestos: The objective is fairly simple knock the enemy ball into the hole or survive not being blown up. Yet to achieve that goal is not simple when you are going against other actual players… who knows what tactics they’ll use. Will they sit back and wait for you to come get them? Or will they charge on in at you to beat you into submission… Get it and find out!

Anyway, on to another track of muttering, still bashing out some more ideas for my map for NS2 as soon as the tools are available. Nothing much more just yet and I THINK I might have a concept artist on board. A good friend of mine who hasn’t really done much in the way of environment sketching / concept. But hey, he’s getting into 3D Animation / Modelling it’s a good stepping stone and gives him some port-folio work

Anyway, just a few mutterings for now.

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