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Ok. Shoot the frog.

Torby - 09 October 2012 06:36 PM

Ok. Shoot the frog.

Yeah, one more shot, and he’ll be quite pickled…

I hear pickled frog is quite delectable! 

Yuuuck. :D

Considering other Blender short films I’ve seen, I’m actually very impressed with the sync and voice work.  I mean the other stuff is nice, but that especially.

RIBIT, RIBIT… dear me, I have a frog in my throat… RIBIT ....

If anyone has tried to use Blender and failed miserably (like me),  take another look.

It is simply THE Best Deal out there. Not just because it’s FREE, but because it also is extremely powerful.

Witness the Sintel video.  And the new GUI, while not as intuitive as Carrara, is
not that difficult to learn.  And no false modesty,  if I can do it, trust me, anyone can do it!!!

The new Cycles renderer is wonderful, and blazing fast when used with an NVIDIA CUDA GPU…...e.g.
my GTX460 2gb graphics card renders 10X(!!!)  faster than the Phenom II 955 CPU on the same computer. =O

I also have it (2.63a) set up to render with Yafaray, Octane Render, 3Delight, and LuxRender. But really like Cycles, especially
since it is so fast (with CUDA).

I still use and love Carrara & Bryce, but highly recommend Blender. It does amazing physics animations.

Here’s an overview of the new improvements in just released 2.64.

There are gigabytes of free video tutorials….....re: my To Do List. =O

The best adjective to describe Blender is not “hard’......it’s “awesome”! 
Which is why I created this site. http://www.blenderportal.com/

Check it out.

*Cough* Well,don’t witness the Sintel video if you’re easily depressed.  It suffers from Short Film Ending Syndrome.  It is a fantastic piece of work, though.

Depressing?

Old Yeller is depressing…Sintel is a ton of bricks dropping on your kitten, the day your car dies on your way back home from a root canal kind of film.

I agree.  Sintel was ... IS an amazing piece.  I was under the impression that we were going to have an abrupt ending but it ended well but left you wanting more.  I can’t believe all that was achieved in Blender.  The part where she is going through the bamboo jungle was just so vibrant and lovely.  The Dragons were exceptional and the old wise man.. WOW!  The main character was very likable and you wanted to see her succeed and felt her pain as she realized her fatal mistake.

megacal - 09 October 2012 09:50 PM

If anyone has tried to use Blender and failed miserably (like me),  take another look.

It is simply THE Best Deal out there. Not just because it’s FREE, but because it also is extremely powerful.

Witness the Sintel video.  And the new GUI, while not as intuitive as Carrara, is
not that difficult to learn.  And no false modesty,  if I can do it, trust me, anyone can do it!!!

The new Cycles renderer is wonderful, and blazing fast when used with an NVIDIA CUDA GPU…...e.g.
my GTX460 2gb graphics card renders 10X(!!!)  faster than the Phenom II 955 CPU on the same computer. =O

I also have it (2.63a) set up to render with Yafaray, Octane Render, 3Delight, and LuxRender. But really like Cycles, especially
since it is so fast (with CUDA).

I still use and love Carrara & Bryce, but highly recommend Blender. It does amazing physics animations.

Here’s an overview of the new improvements in just released 2.64.

There are gigabytes of free video tutorials….....re: my To Do List. =O

The best adjective to describe Blender is not “hard’......it’s “awesome”! 
Which is why I created this site. http://www.blenderportal.com/

Check it out.

that video only prove to me, that programs like carrara and bryce where good and fun in the past and today are a waste to learn.

i never seen a video so good like sintel created with carrara or even bryce software.

learning Blender is indeed fun and lot’s of resources available from blender.org

To anyone who uses Blender…...even if for several years,  I would always recommend adding Bryce (it’s FREE, too!)
and Carrara7Pro (may be free sometime soon?).

Blender can do it all, but Bryce & Carrara can do wonderful art & animations, and much quicker & easier given the
huge amount of content that come with both. And Hexagon is a decent modeler.

I doubt I’ll be using Blender any time soon to create realistic skies & terrains. But I’m having a great time with it
none the less.

The best tool for the job may not always be Blender…...or Carrrara or Bryce or VUE or C4D,  or LW, or Maya etc

Whatever rings your bell.

I’ve got Scales and I’m going to try rigging her (?)...she was a hard one to find.  Most of the other models, including Sintel, herself, were pretty easy.  All of them are under a CC license, so I’m surprised that they haven’t already been ‘Poserized’