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Hi blenderians

Repeating post at elysiun.com forums:

I'm starting a shortfilm, wich will be blender made. The idea is a drama based in the sacrifice of parents for their sons. Actors will be penguins in their natural places. Look will be (...I want...) near photorealistic.
Script and Storyboard are just done, excuse don't in english.

http://www.ara3d.com/varios/antartida/antartida-guion.pdf
http://www.ara3d.com/varios/antartida/antartida-storyboard.pdf

These works are copyrighted, but short will be copylefted.
Today there is not blender work, but I'll post news.

Greetings

Sad story, but it could be very good when it's finished. Keep us updated when you get more done.

OK, here is the first image. It's the first attemp of the penguin model. Next it will be adjusting proportions, and the head.

I'm thinking in static particles for fur. Someone knows what is better,they or the plug-in?

Looking good so far. The wings look like they're going to be difficult to rotate down into a more neutral position without a lot of distortion though, you might want to detach them, rotate, and reattach. For the feathers you might have better luck using planes with alpha transparency on the fluffier bits and relying on textures for the rest, rather than using particles or a plugin.

This is a quick render, I must fix some details but it don't seems to be bad :p Eyelids are too outwards for a better skinning, and wings still will be a problem but that is their usual pose, for swimming and walking.

Penguins have "feathers" in tail, rest is very thin, like hair. I was thinking in something like "hair paint effects" of maya, wich has low cost for rendering.

Now time to learning about materials... and particles (at least a test :) ).

This is the test with static particles, with a nice cuddly toy look. Next will be rigging, later a better work with particles, I like them.

This is the textured version, to use in far camera planes. Also for dupliverts and particle systems. Now a serious work with static particles.

looking great

for some free stuff i made
and for almost daily fotos

At last penguin has open eyes, with RVK, so here is a photo.

looking good!

whats rvk?

for some free stuff i made
and for almost daily fotos

Relative VertexKeys.
A tech of animating vertex, used to facial animation.
Since a mesh you create different keys by moving vertex, then you animate them by IPO curves and sliders.
For details look at chapter 12 of blender guide.

About penguin next will be introducing or faking Specular component in feathers (halos). Some idea?

Message edited on: 08/14/2005 16:08

maybe add another mesh a little bigger of the furbody with an alpha map that just shows the reflections

for some free stuff i made
and for almost daily fotos

I have tried with another mesh and dupliverting cubes, trying with ztransp and raytransp. The only I have got is using Sequencer: adding a render with only shine to a usual render.

can you explain more what you tried and show some fotos of the effect you would like to achieve.

for some free stuff i made
and for almost daily fotos

The thing is dry feathers are near matte, but in wet ones it is needed the natural shine. In preview window of blender are the red marked. In last render are white shines between wing and head, and a little one at wing extreme.

This is near last version. Shadows and shines will be in another render. That is work, but in most of renders I will use the textured penguins. Rigging soon.

looking quite good and fluffy

for some free stuff i made
and for almost daily fotos

Attached Link: http://www.ara3d.com/varios/antartida/pingu-prueba-1.avi

This thing is walking slowly, and more since now becouse I have entered in a play for Linux, but it walks. This is the good version, and a test animation with the textured version.

play = game test animation = animation test :P

Me gusta mucho!! It's so cute!! I really the fuzzy stuffed animal looking one.