Archive for July, 2009

Stop-motion

Friday, July 17th, 2009

I'm not sure if this is ever going to be of any serious use for me, but I just had to give it a shot: [flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dadadance.flv 480 360] Whaddya think?Related posts: Testing, testing… Video editor Blender animation test

A world of sound

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Just when you thought you were safe: [flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/frogmovie2.flv 480 360] Audio done in Audacity (an open source audio recording/editing program) and synched in Blender's video sequencer. The drops are actually just me tapping my finger on my laptop's microphone. Sound FX to the max!Related posts: And now for something completely different The Gimpy Fly Testing, ...

The Gimpy Fly

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

[flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fly.flv 480 360] I thought I could do the whole thing with the Gimp Animation Plug-in (GAP), but the video encoder is buggy and I couldn't get it to make an AVI file. After several attempts, I put the single frames into Blender for final processing. Let me know what you ...

And now for something completely different

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

[flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/frogmovie.flv 480 360] Animation frames in Pencil, compositing and sequencing in Blender.Related posts: Testing, testing… A few hours later… Video editor

Video editor

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Blender continues to amaze me - it's basically a self-contained AV production suite - you'd need at least two different pieces of high-end (read "extremely expensive") software to replace it. Here's a simple fade between the old and new version of the pavilion animation, to show a very basic functionality: [flv:http://cygielski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/pav_YR_cross.flv ...