Hi Guys,
"I sincerely hope that the realsoft community will also profit by having a
look at the movie & the tools used by it (EVERYTHING was made by using free
software even the compositing :-) ....)"
I also concur with this. It was the original reason I brought up the RS
Char Anim V Blender, which one is ahead.
I truely believe their is no harm in looking at things like the Orange
Project and the way they have done it and the Workflow. BECAUSE I hope that
one day soon such a project could be organised around Realsoft and by doing
so will further RS Char Anim to a very comprehensive feature set thats
robust and highly useable. Things that are needed will be spotted as a
project like this moves along.
Keep this type discussion going - I think alot of people are interested in
the views from the various listers that have given time so far to write up
a mail and post it.
Cheers
Aidan
At 23:08 12/05/2006, you wrote:
Today I received my 2 disk set of "Elephants dream" from the blendershop
(by buying the item i.e.ordering & paying for it in advance one could
finance part of the open animation movie project of the "orange" team who
did the film). Excellent work which could serve as a measuring stick for
the features a character animation tool really is in need of ;-) ....
For those interested in seeing without buying - just wait a couple of days
more before downloading it, as the authors posted a warning on their webside:
"Despite Ton's request to wait with posting Elephants Dream on the
Internet until the Orange team has had a chance to publish a good quality
version, you can already view it on YouTube. In itself this is not a
problem (in fact, you're encouraged to share it!), but the Orange team is
quite disappointed by the quality of it. As they will be releasing a
series of high-quality downloads in the next few days, I can only
recommend that you wait for those to get the best possible first
impression that you can."
More info at:
http://orange.blender.org
and for those in a hurry who just want to get a first impression:
http://orange.blender.org/wp-content/themes/orange/images/blog/switchbridge.jpg
Another point of interest for those character animation aficionados among
us is, that during the production a set of new structures & tools were
developed for Blender, among them a a unique Blur tool which uses a 3D
model based on quads and vectors to deliver the effect in far less time at
a far higher quality than the "classical" approach.
All those new developments will be integrated in the next Blender release
(you can get a preview of them at
http://www.blender.org/cms/Changes_since_last_ver.727.0.html
).
I sincerely hope that the realsoft community will also profit by having a
look at the movie & the tools used by it (EVERYTHING was made by using
free software even the compositing :-) ....)
Have a nice day
Wolfram
