Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2009/09/03/new-more-ambitious-3d-blender-animation/

I am itching to take my Blender animation skills to the next step, and as you can see from the illustration above I’m going to do it properly this time, with a storyboard and everything.

There are a bunch of things I want to better in this animation, compared with the first 3D animation I did with Blender. The first animation is set in a sort of virtual studio made up from a few rudimentary mesh planes as walls, but this time I want to create a groovy looking 3D environment with convincing looking grass.

The text on the first animation was a bit rough and ready too, so this time I want to create an animation with some graphically pleasing text and perhaps even a logo. I also want to have two animated mesh characters, so that there’s some interaction in the movie.

And there are a million niggling little other improvements I’ve suddenly decided not to bore all the readers of this blog with. Poor dedicated fools, they deserve some consideration.

In my last post I mentioned a book about animation that I planned to download from this page of cool Blender links, but the link didn’t work. I did however track the book down on Scribd, I wonder how legal the copy there is, but it turned out to be old school Disney animation. I thought it was going to be all shiny modern digital Pixar type Disney animation, oops. Needless to say I’ve kind of lost interest in it and I’m on to the next thing.

I mentioned before that I want grass in my next animation and one link on the resources page leads to some presets for Blender particles and it includes grass. Cool!