Monday, October 31, 2011

Memories

Non-Blender related

The past may have been history, but the memories it left behind remains for eternity.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!





This is my first experiment at a
2D-ish style with Blender. :)

Length: 52 seconds
Tools: Blender, GIMP
Music and Sound Effects: http://soundsnap.com
Modeling, Texturing, Animation, Lighting, Compositing, Sequencing, Sound Design: Reynante M. Martinez
Contact: reynantem@gmail.com

Blog Template Updated

It's been a while since I last touched my blog's design.  It feels great to see something fresh, and yes, I made it a bit wider too, makes it feel a little less claustrophobic. ;)

I'd probably post my Halloween present in a few hours, so stay in touch.

-Reyn

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Blender 2.60 Released


*I'll join the traffic*

Ni hao! ;)

Weeeeeeee! Another milestone for Blender 3D has been set! In preparation for Blender 2.61's goodies, 2.60 presents a handful of niceties that you should pick up.  One of my favorites is the animation improvement.  For everything else, I'll definitely tinker around and get blown!

To the Blender Community, Blender Developers, and Blender Artists - CONGRATULATIONS!

Links you don't want to miss:
http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-260/
http://aligorith.blogspot.com/2011/08/gsoc11-end-of-summer-report.html

Have fun and happy Blending!

-Reyn

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Sunshine-Breakdown

Hi! Still in relation to my previous posts, I made a quick breakdown of the steps involved in achieving the final look of my recent short film (I still don't feel comfortable saying that).







Again, you can watch the short at http://vimeo.com/30351826

Some descriptive paragraphs at http://reynantem.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunshine-blender-short.html

And the still image that I rendered along with it at http://reynantem.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunshine-still.html

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Sunshine-Still


(click image to enlarge)

This is a follow-up post to my "Sunshine" short.  Here's a still image version of the video.

C&Cs would be greatly appreciated.

Made with: Blender and GIMP

You can also view the video here http://reynantem.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunshine-blender-short.html

Sunshine, a Blender Short

Hi, everyone! I'm back again after a tad blog absence.  I'm happy to present you my latest 'sort-of-short', created entirely with Blender 2.5, with help from GIMP and Audacity.

I definitely learned a lot during the production of this short, much of which I could've done differently.  But    like any other projects I do, I realized it too late and couldn't go back; I could, in fact, but it will definitely eat up my time.  So I called it quits and moved on.  I'm hoping you will all like it.  And as usual, I'd love to hear what you think of it, the more constructive, the more I'd appreciate. ;)

Thanks so much to my girlfriend, with which I dedicate this to, for inducing me with the creative juices that had me hooked for quite a long time (or so I felt).

I'm hoping I could be fueled by the same, if not better, creative juices again, and come up with another short (with a better story this time).  But who knows.

For now, I'll take 3 minutes of your life.  Fullscreen highly suggested.  Enjoy!







You can also view the still image version here http://reynantem.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunshine-still.html

And the breakdown video here http://reynantem.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunshine-breakdown.html

Thank you so much to Aniboom for the feature http://reynantem.blogspot.com/2011/11/sunshine-featured-at-anibooms-channel.html