My work...

[omega329]

I've been wanting to show some people some of the work I've been doing in my own time using blender and GIMP:
All my 2d work on photobucket:
http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii19/omega_angelfire/
A basic fluid simulation using blender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZgIc5PFojg
note: I've had blender as of a week today, I've had GIMP for under a 3 months but it's kinda on the backburner ATM as I've had many ideas for blender work, still no idea how to do most of it though...

[mdhay]

My school uses GIMP(lol), but I've never had a chance to use it.

You definately like guitars, don't you?

[omega329]

It started with a mate asking me to do some stuff for his band (every little lie), so I did. But, being really fussy, he had to get the logo PERFECT, he liked the basic idea of the guitar with the scribbly things so I went through loads of designs and we settled on the one with the black and white starburst background, allthough the one with the lightning guitar and the white background came a close second. Only took 2 days thanks to the miracle of msn file transfer!

[mdhay]

Ever considered Sketchup? Very useful for making wipeout stuff.

[omega329]

never tried it, but I'll turn my hand to anything, I'll have to download it later as I'm re-rendering that video with better fluid physics and at some stupidly high resolution 1028x768 I think... well, high for a non-commercial render, also seeing as its my third ever animation. It's also using 99% of my Intel Core Duo 2 @2.4Ghz and rendering 1 frame per 35 seconds (it's on frame 28 out of 250 atm) :dizzy so I don't think I'm going to be using sketchup for quite a while:)

Hmm... blender can run on linux eh?
Linux... PS3... Blender... 6x3.4Ghz...
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

[mdhay]

You'll need a ps3 first,Preferably a 60 GB, as the partition needed is massive.

Yep, I'm thinking the same thing. So if you're going ahead with this, you will require:
A ps3
An External HDD(To store your stuff.
An Open - Source Linux OS Disc
At least 52/30 GB free space.


Or if you're desperate, store it on an Ipod. ;)

[omega329]

oh yeah, I forgot I didn't have one:? would anyone like to sponsor an upcoming digital artist? I'm going to need £400 for umm... a new "processor farm"

[mdhay]

Go down to Currys and get a 40 GB with two Sixasis pads, resistance and motorstorm for 300 earth pounds.

[omega329]

The other hundered was for a new graphics card, thanks for that tip about currys.
BTW, GIMP and Blender are both open source so you can get them for free off their websites If you want to

[mdhay]

Nice work by the way.

[omega329]

thanks, the render's going waay slower now due to all the water droplets, it was up to 2mins per frame at one point, frame 172/250, It's gonna look brilliant...
10:25: frame 28
13:17: frame 172
13:42: frame 229
almost there!
well, my CPU's been running at 100% for the last 3 1/2 hours, no problems yet...

[RJ O'Connell]

Very nice water effects in the animation.

Just thought this thread could use another person in the discussion...;)

[omega329]

thanks, I think me amd mdhay sould stay away from each other for a while, we have too much in common, if we ever came into contact I think there might be some sort of explosion...
The animation's finished! almost 1Gb for 10 seconds@25fps! I can't play it smoothly due to the MASSIVE data speed, 100MB/s (psps can play up to about 800KB/s) but it does look amazing...

[mdhay]

However:




There is not enough memory. The page will be displayed at reduced Image quality.

--Or--

There is not enough memory. Switch Conserve memory to [on]. This will help in some cases.

;)

[omega329]

I mean when played through the video tab in the XMB, plus I don't think that you could actually read from a memory stick duo at 100MB/s. I haven't put it on youtube as uploading almost 1GB would kinda take a while...

[mdhay]

Yeah you can't. I recently tried it with the Haze President trailer, didn't work.Put it on my phone and It turns into an AVC music file, if such a format exists.

[omega329]

I was having a look at a website where I get .blend models from, and found this on it: http://www.katorlegaz.com/psp/index.php
Look at the image at the top, recognise the game on the psp?:)

[mdhay]

I do. :)

[rdmx]

If you want to reduce the size of the video file, use virtual dub.
Compress it with a codec of some description.

[omega329]

Thanks for the tip, the only trouble is that I have 13 codec compressors on my computer so I don't know which one to use!

EDIT: Sorted now, got the file down to 6.18 MB compared to the previous 1 GB and I can't see any noticable loss in quality, it's amazing what can be done with free software.

[omega329]

I'm making a wipeout animation, the track is on youtube, it needs loads of work at the moment, but I hope to improve it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6CTqrsSQKo

[omega329]

Long time, no post in this thread, thought I'd bump it to show off some work;

I've got into a bit of a mental block with Wipeout: FO329, decided to do some work on acheiving photorealism to get out of it:

Did some earth-based terrain for the hell of it:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii19/omega_angelfire/terraintest.jpg
Used terragen (http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/) to make and render, one of my first tests, took about 3/4 of an hour including rendering

Left my computer rendering on indigo for 2 hours and came up with this beauty:
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii19/omega_angelfire/diamond2.png

Overnight 10 hour render produced this (indigo again):
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii19/omega_angelfire/im1209934808.png
just wish I'd rendered it at a higher resolution:brickwall

[mdhay]

That's hefty work.:)

[omega329]

thanks, I'm hoping to do some work with "Blender World Forge" a python script that generates landscapes and planets, the only trouble is, that without proper configuration, they look rubbish.

Fermat moment: I did make a canyon thing with somthing flying through it, but I forgot to save it.

[omega329]

More 3D Stuff of mine, top 3 vids are probably the best, Blender Fluid sim 2 has a waaay too fast camera, allthough you phantom guys are probably used to it ;)
I'm pretty chuffed with Array test...
Particle test looks cool, but doesn't do a damn thing:g
http://www.youtube.com/user/humangoogle

[metroid4me]

thats cool a little hdri background makes it nice! I wonder how hard it would be to do that in max with the array tool. I'm still using 8 though so I don't think you can animate with arrays (as far as I know...)
Anyway - looks cool! how about a full music vid?

[omega329]

Haven't posted in this thread for ages, haven't got much *public* work done either. I've been doing cutscenes and animations for a freespace campaign, check it out:
http://www.game-warden.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=74
yeah, it's changed dramatcally since the demo BTW (for the better)

[omega329]

Earth Defense is still going, we're also listed on moddb.com, so take a look and tell us what you think!
http://www.moddb.com/games/earth-defence

[rdmx]

Have to say that's some pretty cool-ass work. :)

[omega329]

*cough*mod of the year vote*cough* ;)