My Blender Process

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TED talk by Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

Grease pencil & Blender Boids...What the heck??

How to create a freehand sketch in Blender using a Grease Pencil

1. View
2. Grease Pencil
3. Click on Use Grease Pencil
4. Draw on the pad
5. Convert to a Bezier curve
6. In object mode, Convert to mesh: Alt + C
7. Tab into edit mode, select all (A) extrude (Z)
8. Go into side view
9. click use grease pencil and repeat again (extrude)
10. Now you have a crazy facade!!

Some cool links on Grease Pencils:

http://www.blendernation.com/grease-pencil-new-feature-on-development/

http://www.blendernation.com/pencil-2d-animation-software/

How to create Boids in Blender to simulate crowds, traffic flow and more!

Inspiration: Filip Zelenka

I stumbled across Architectural visualizer/animator Filip Zelenka who has a unique portfolio including 3D rendering and photography of exemplar designers & architects!

Below is a design of a gallery in Pilsen by designer, Karel Bus, which Filip Zelenka rendered using 3Ds Max.

GREAT PHOTOS OF VARIOUS ARCHITECTURE

Photographs taken by Filip Zelenka

My first Blender animation!

Here's my first attempt at doing an animation in Blender. I made the goblet using a Bezier curve (only one side), then spun it 360 degrees to make the form. I then created a plane over the goblet, & subdived the mesh. After applying the collision and soft body amounts I pressed Alt + A to animate!

Easter 'Blender' break...

So over the Easter break I attempted a few terrain maps in Blender of the site.

After a few hours my eyes were pretty sore from concentrating and the results aren't that amazing...but I was happy that I'm starting to understand a little more about how Blender operates.

Here are some examples of testing below:

Experiment 1

First I imported a photo of the site into photoshop and created layers according to height/depth. When importing images into blender, black inverts and white rises in height.

I just started with a section of the map to see the result in Blender.

River = black

Land = dark grey

Trees = light grey

Buildings = white

I then imported this into Blender

I abstracted the site by applying different modifers:

WAVE:

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Then I tried adding more 'Noise' in Edit mode

Mesh Deform created an interesting form:

Adding 'Wave'

Experiment 2:

For this experiment I just imported the greyscale version into Blender instead of altering the site map in photoshop. I then applied noise. In object mode added a smooth subsurface.

This terrain is pretty lumpy but it may be ok for rough diagrams.

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My next experiements will be refining the terrain and adding particle tracing elements and empties.

Cool video made in Blender!

Introduction to Smoke Simulation from Andrew Price on Vimeo.

Also check out this interview by Andrew Price with Blender Guru, Andy Goralczyk!