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Adventures In Blender Animation
In Time For Halloween One of the things that amuse me about 3D animation are all the outtakes reals. Not the scripted ones, but the ones where a character’s fur explodes to a ridiculous inverted characters.
One of my first experiences with that was A Beautiful Disaster. A simple walk animation where the legs weren’t keeping pace with the body, based off of CGCookie’s Animation Bootcamp.
Today’s accident involved the Blender Human Generator plugin.
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Managing Large Blender Animations
I was recently asked what I’d make as a Blender tutorial from a company that already has a ton of great, in depth courses. At the time I was stymied. A lot of what I’d teach was already covered by their lessons.
I know now what I’d teach. A tutorial specifically about proper scene management in Blender. It’s one thing to create an animation or two, but even a relatively short animation can involve scene management.
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I Did Not Get the Job
Well, I heard back and I didn’t get the job. I’m pretty sure they had a lot of applicants, and I’m happy to have had the interview, but I can’t help but think that I may have messed the interview up a bit.
Also, I am not yet as productive as I’d like to be. I’m working on a paid for project, which has slowed my contributions to the CGCookie Gallery and paused my own development of this portfolio site.
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