Awesome Robot
Blender 2.63 had been officially unleashed on the world! New features include:
You can read more about the features here: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.63
Happy Blending!
It has been quite a while since I posted anything. I am in the process of re-designing the blog and getting it to look good (this is the reason I have temporarily removed the header) I am also working on a tutorial for doing lightsabers! The effect that every vfx artist does at least once in their life. And to make this easier for everyone I created a template for lightsabers. Just load in your footage and start doing roto for the shot! You can download it here: http://www.blendswap.com/blends/animation/lightsaber-v2-0/
I will also be doing an updated tutorial for compositing 3d into live action with some new techniques that are a much more flexible and powerful!
How to make a Basic Lens Flare in Blender 2.61
Get the version of Blender that I used: http://graphicall.org/110
Blender 2.61 was just released! Many cool features are getting merged into trunk such as:
Go get it here: http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
Another cool article from Blendernation.
http://www.blendernation.com/2011/10/13/keepworthy-creations-using-blender-for-prototyping-gift-designs/
“Childrens publisher and gift company Keepworthy Creations have been using Blender to prototype collectable gifts they produce to accompany their books. They started by using Blender simply to aid creating technical drawings to send to their manufacturer, but liked the process so much that for their next project they persuaded their manufacturer to accept .blend files directly.”
Blender 2.60 is out! Go get it and try it out!
A short film my brother and I made. Everything is done with Blender 2.59: editing, color grading, vfx, titles, sound mixing etc.
Rendesvous With a Swindler 2 from Aleksandr Beers on Vimeo.
The second installment of the Swindler series. (I will upload the first one, someday) In the first one the government representative tries to cheat the spy out of some money and gives the spy less than they agreed to.
All is done in Blender.
A beginner tutorial covering the essential steps for getting a Blender object into your live action footage.
Compositing CG into live action from Aleksandr Beers on Vimeo.
As an amateur filmmaker you desperately want to make a film that looks good and is, above all, watchable by friends and family. So shakey camera is unnacceptable but you don’t have the money to spend on a steadicam. What’s the solution? Use your tripod!
When it comes to video editing, Blender has a capable NLE, but it is not designed as a full featured editor and lacks things like GPU acceleration. So it would seem that for professional editing one would have to sink $799 into Premier or get Final Cut Pro and be restricted to a Mac (oh the horror). So when I found Lightworks, I was thrilled to see that a fully featured, capable, proven Non-linear editor was leaping into the open source world! It has been used on some big movies such as “The Kings Speech” and
“Evan Almighty”.
Lightworks is my editor of choice for my live action editing projects. I have
edited quite a few short movies on this software and absolutely love it!
The official release is scheduled for November 29th 2011!
Edit: The official release date was previously stated to be ‘September 29th 2011.’ This is not the case. It now, correctly, reads ‘November 29th 2011.’
Edit 2: Unfortunately it appears that the official release of Lightworks has been postponed indefinitely. You can read their article here: http://lightworksbeta.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122&Itemid=263