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tushantin

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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #135 on: January 11, 2011, 05:30:37 am »
Okay, been busy trying to learn Blender AND getting it to model somethin for meh. So here's some screenshots of a model which is only gonna appear for 20 seconds on screen. XD Yeah, I work hard.

Presenting the SNAKE DRAGON (WIP)!


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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #136 on: January 11, 2011, 08:48:50 am »
Hmm, not bad for the beginning of a model.
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #137 on: January 12, 2011, 10:35:45 am »
Okay, did some materials. Initially tried to paint the dragon orange and give it flaming hair, but it looked like Charizard and the fire sucked.


Oww!

...so I made some changes. Now the fire's removed, and the dragon's turned into a devil.


RAWR!

Problem though: how the heck do you change the outline width in Blender? I know you can set the black cartoonish outline by going to Render > Post Processing > Edge. There's the threshold, yeah, but you can't adjust the thickness. o_O
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #138 on: January 12, 2011, 11:18:18 am »
Hmm, perhaps render a larger image then scale it down will make the outline look thinner. XD
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tushantin

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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #139 on: January 12, 2011, 03:03:41 pm »
Quote from: utunnels on January 12, 2011, 11:18:18 am
Hmm, perhaps render a larger image then scale it down will make the outline look thinner. XD
xDDD You, sir, win the Nobel Prize of Common Sense, because not even the talented 3D artists have actually thought of that yet! (Seriously, they haven't)

Thanks! But this method wouldn't really help if I've got "fire" and "particle dynamics" in the scene. >.<"
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #140 on: January 14, 2011, 05:09:39 am »
FUCKIN TAMED THE BEAST AND BLENDER ALIKE! Albeit my first time with Blender, and despite the lack of documentations and very annoying bugs, I've finished modelling and rigging. No tutorials kinda sucks for a newbie and I had to improvise on most parts, but this is certainly NOT advised for other newbies. Yeah, I'm an exception, and I feel how frustrating this is.

Still...


Next up, the animation.  8)
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #141 on: January 14, 2011, 01:40:53 pm »
Nice! the best thing I can do in blender is make a snow man xD
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #142 on: January 14, 2011, 01:52:02 pm »
Quote from: TheMage on January 14, 2011, 01:40:53 pm
Nice! the best thing I can do in blender is make a snow man xD
xDDD Hey, Snowmen can survive the harshest winter! Wait, is harshest even a word?
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #143 on: January 14, 2011, 02:09:02 pm »
Looks good. Are you going to texture it? because the shape is great, but it's so smooth and boring D:

Still, looks good.
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #144 on: January 14, 2011, 02:14:35 pm »
Quote from: Inwe Elanesse on January 14, 2011, 02:09:02 pm
Looks good. Are you going to texture it? because the shape is great, but it's so smooth and boring D:

Still, looks good.

I put a high-res Normal Map on top of a low-res model.  :lol: And it's Toon Shaded to make it look like it's hand-drawn. What texture do you mean though?

I know the appearance is boring, but this creature only appears for a couple of seconds in the animation. The "illustration" though will be appealing for the viz novel.
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #145 on: January 14, 2011, 06:24:54 pm »
I think it looks great, man!can't wait to see it in action!
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #146 on: January 15, 2011, 02:49:54 pm »
Daww bad news, Bekkler. Unfortunately major scale rendering when using the smoke simulator (trying to make some fire) takes too much time preprocessing occlusion.  :? Guess I have to make fire the 2D way.
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #147 on: January 15, 2011, 04:01:46 pm »
Great stuff so far, watching this act of creation unfold is really making me giddy.

All the problems you're having with the flame on this dragon reminds me of an interview on one of the Lord of the Rings DVDs, where someone was explaining how much trouble the crew had doing the flames on the back of the Balrog. If I'm remembering this correctly, I think they had to set up a big fire in real life and literally splice that footage into the movie, but maybe I'm getting the story backwards...
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #148 on: January 16, 2011, 01:09:46 pm »
XDDD That statement of yours kinda inspired me to make tutorials on that sort. You see, some people (like blockhead friends of mine who are in the same line as me) think that the "only way you can pull special effects like that is to get a $999 software like After Effects", but I assure everyone that's not the case. I can do the exact same effect with Synfig and Blender (both are free). Just that the former is not convenient to use because, although easy for effects, has tedious import method.

Yet, FREE HOME MOVIES! 8D
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Re: Chrono Movies: Fleabane Trilogy
« Reply #149 on: January 16, 2011, 05:27:13 pm »
Man, Blender's buggy! >_< Shading's gone wrong, fire's aren't rendering when I got it "just right"!

Anywhos, here's what's coming. See? Shading's gone wrong. But I still love that glowy eye effect from the Composite mode.
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