Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Jan 24 14:16:49 CST 2014
Hi Mark: There are a large number of tutorials that they sell but as far as I have seen YouTube has dozens of video free for viewing and learning. For example here is a great couple of videos showing how you can generate a very realistic Ocean landscape: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfTCe1KDzw Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3sSZ6W7rgQ It is all pretty heady stuff to say the least but the resulting realism is incredible. It was not more than a five to ten years ago that to produce such quality results would take teams of developers and designers a month or two to reproduce and the hardware needed would be prohibitive. The first movie to use this technology was The Perfect Storm: http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNzIwMTc0NTI0Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTk4Mzc3Mw@@._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg In addition there are also a number of rigs (the frame work for producing realistic characters) which can be downloaded and used. So you would like to create a Minion? Check out the following tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uY7rjhhMs Aside: There are also a number of other great applications out there like Maxion which has a full featured learning version for those who wish to learn: http://www.maxon.net/en/home.html and then there is Morpheus 2.0 which has just finishing reaching their development requirement via crowd funding: http://www.joshburton.com/projects/morpheusDocs.asp Watch out Pixar. ;-) Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Breen" <marklbreen at gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 5:39:32 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Want to be an animator? Hello All I had a quick look at the site and noticed a bunch of videos for sale. Has anyone tried to use Blender without investing a week of their time and watching a bunch of videos? Is there a hello world for blender ? Is it way to heavy for my eleven year old son to usefully work with? On 24 January 2014 12:07, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote: > Hi Jim -- > > AFAIS Blender is written using C, C++ and Python. Great. > > See also: > > https://developer.blender.org/ > > http://nicholasbishop.net/?page_id=20 > > > BTW, Blender's author Nicholas Bishop seems to be also working on/for > > http://www.makerbot.com/makerware/ > > > Thank you. > > -- Shamil > > Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:30 PM -07:00 from Jim Lawrence < > accessd at shaw.ca>: > >Hi All: > > > >Until fairly recently, (about a year ago) there was not a great OS > animation application. > > > >If you were in the business you would have to purchase such applications > as Studiomax, XSI, Render and so on...not inexpensive to say the least. The > problem was that not just one of the programs would allow a designer to > create industry standards results...you would generally have to buy a suite > of up to six products. > > > >Five years of university, to acquire a degree in arts and animation and > then a potential ten grand worth of applications...not to mention the cost > of the computer...the years of BYOD(?) If you went to work for an animation > company, not everyone has the budget of Pixar (or the huge team of > programmers), you would have to hope they could afford the latest product > site licenses...many companies just can not afford to keep the development > software current. > > > >Now there is just such an application for those of you who are starting > in the business or just want to start your own contract animation studio. > > > >http://www.blender.org > > > >The application runs on all major platforms, 32 and 64bit. > > > >Here is a demoreel sample on what you could build using Blender: > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XZGulDxz9o > > > >Jim > >_______________________________________________ > >dba-Tech mailing list > >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > Салахетдинов Шамиль > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com