Blender Underground

Slightly exaggerated title, I know.

This week's challenge was an idea that I had already had floating around, having recently watched some excellent tutorials from videocopilot.net and read the bounce tumble and splash book.

Several others confirmed that this was a good idea. I suppose now is a good time to announce that participants will be modelling, and rendering a special effect.

This effect will be used in a future challenge so make sure it is something you will want to reuse! (of course, the winner will be making a tutorial and .blend available for those not wishing to participate this week )

Feel free to submit a still or animated movie (make sure it isn't too large - some of our members are still using dial-up) and the winners will be judged on Sunday the 28th of September.

--Maximum length of time for animations is 20 seconds
--other objects in the scene are allowed, but not recommended for reasons to be disclosed post-competition
--remember - you're not limited to just environmental sfx - you could make a magical force field for a game animation, a rift in the space-time continuum, or anything else which could be part of another composition...that was a hint

Good luck and have fun!
Dan

Darned... I'm clueless. I wouldn't even know where to start with this. I was so excited too.

You are not alone there... I might not be able to enter. =(

dan_hin, you're awesome. This is surely gonna be the best blender challenge of my life (And the second also ) . I have a really small idea of what i could achieve to do but dont worry, il do my best to catch at lest 1 vote (Hehe even if its not my target though....)

-but il have to do these ?&*(%(% tutorials about particles (Please help me god)

Anyway,

COUNT ME IN !!!

Yeah, i found my idea :

I reserve the Laser Saber concept




...Cos there can be a lot time's loss just to find some tutorials on this topic, il be copying the more useful links about this field under this post so you can use your time with more efficiency.

-Learning the basics about particles
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Particles

hmm, i think i'm going to bite the bullet and upgrade my blender. i'm going to try to do something outer space related.

darth and damascus,

i'm not trying to discourage people! think of an effect you'd like to produce, and have a look for some ideas - blenderartists has a lot of good tutorials on there, youtube is full of them, and there may even be some good links on BU.

also, videocopilot.net has some excellent energy/explosion/smoke tutorials which with a little effort could be co-opted for use with Blender. They certainly will give you some cool ideas.

Dan

Okay, thanks. I'm so frustrated with this. I know what I WANT to do... we'll see. Darth and I also figured out today that I somehow have a bummed install of Blender (some things he can do, I can not). Yeah, same version, and even tested under same OS. Oh well.

That's the hardest part done then - I'm not joking. I'll look forward to your entry

Dan

here is a little look at what i'm working on

that looks pretty damn good. I'll be posting mine soon.


Is it Thursday already

Yeah, already

...wait Saturday for my post

This is a WIP.

I've used a tutorial from youtube on growing curves and added growing leaves.
This a link to the original tutorial on youtube. (I did not make this BTW.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_igp7TyRGnU

My animation makes use of curves, shape keys and the NLA editor.

This will be made more complex if I find the time...

Here's the link to the animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCQ37Afs9k

Hope you like it.

-Gnuren

I'm itching to see this now...roll on 9:00pm!

Dan

Started to work on my FX. I've just followed the 3D World tutorial to get a nice glow effect. This has really given me a desire to learn more about nodes.