{"id":492,"date":"2013-05-28T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/?p=492"},"modified":"2022-04-12T12:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:30:59","slug":"ikmc-promo-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/28\/ikmc-promo-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"iKMC Promo cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first Blender project:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67137915?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" height=\"422\" width=\"750\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<div itemprop=\"description\" data-expand-tooltip=\"Click to expand description\">\n<h6>Written and created by Howard Matthews at Push Pictures for Fingo Interactive Ltd.<\/h6>\n<h6>Created in Blender (blender.org), composited in After Effects<br \/>\nMusic by Terry Devine-King \/ Adam Drake (audionetwork.com)<br \/>\nDubbed in Logic Pro.<\/h6>\n<p>Since 3D Studio Max doesn&#8217;t run on Macs and I&#8217;m slowly getting rid of all the PCs in the studio (muhahaha), I needed an alternative 3D package. Had a quick look at Maya but thought I&#8217;d better give Blender a go &#8211; it&#8217;s free and open source, which is always appealing, but when I had a go with it a few years back the interface was a bit clunky and the learning curve looked daunting. Lots has happened since then, though; Blender&#8217;s really matured into an incredibly capable package.<\/p>\n<p>No better way to learn than to try and produce a project for real &#8211; so this is it: my first Blender project. To keep things relatively manageable I stuck with Blender&#8217;s internal renderer, doing a separate render of each element using the &#8220;Edges&#8221; option to get the outlines, then using AE&#8217;s Roughen Edges to erode them a bit. Everything was assembled and composited in After Effects, though Blender has an increasingly powerful compositor of its own now &#8211; have to try it next time.<\/p>\n<p>My first go at doing character animation, too; Blender&#8217;s approach to skeletal animation seems much simpler and more straightforward than Max&#8217;s, but the key thing is that there are tons of free tutorial videos available, courtesy of Blender&#8217;s growing army of supporters. Groovy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first Blender project: Written and created by Howard Matthews at Push Pictures for Fingo Interactive Ltd. Created in Blender (blender.org), composited in After Effects Music by Terry Devine-King \/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-animation-and-motion-graphics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howiem.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}