Petunia is a 3d robot model that I created for the 2007 Blender Conference Art Festival. Shapeways decided to add a nice picture of a prototyped version of the bot to their press corner. Since then the lovely image appeared at several news websites/items.
Here’s a small list
Jason v Gumster of Hand Turkey Studios invited me to help out with the Richmond 48hr film project he entered with a crack team. The 48hr project is a competition, which is normally entered by regular film crews. They head out into the city and try to shoot/edit a short film in just 2 days. Jason was crazy enough to enter with a 3D team, which is truly truly insane. I Helped out with some modelling and animation. It was great fun, and I hope he asks me again next year, and perhaps then I can join the team on location, in stead of over the internet!
I gave a talk and workshop at the Slobodni Festival in Cakovec Croatia (Slobodni means Free). It was a great pleasure to meet all the people. I spoke about Petunia on the 12th and showed some 3D tricks in Blender on the 13th.
We were in luck, because the actfest was in town as well, so in the evenings we could sit in the grass on the outskirts of town to enjoy some punk music and hotdogs!
On March the 27th there’s a big special day at the Hogeschool Rotterdam. The students will get the chance to take a look in the kitchen of several occupations. I have been asked by the departments of Games & Simulations, Grafimediatechnologie to tell them something about 3D design and games development.
I thought I had lost the file, but thankfully Ian Hubert managed to find his copy. He used the balloon/blimp in the motion picture Ideality, which is free to download. So I added the file to the page where you can already find an image of it in my 3D graphics section. Big thanks to Ian, because now we can all play around with it. Go see Ideality, and the new movie Ian is working on (and I get to help a little with) Project London!
For a while I’d been working on the Goose, my second model for Project London. It was perhaps one of the hardest models I’ve ever done, but I’m well pleased with the entire process. Last month I finally completed it. And now, the first footage with the model in it has been published! See the subjectc.com blog for more information and a video with the Goose doing a nice backflip.
In my ignorance I once mentioned to Ton Roosendaal that I’d cook dinner for the crew if he ever organised another project. Since now the making of Big Buck Bunny or Project Peach is in full swing, I had to make good on my promise. So with the help of fellow dutch artist Pim (mifune) I headed to Amsterdam to cook for the boys. Naturally we made them the traditional dutch winter food: hutspot/stamppot rauwe andijvie/zuurkoolstamppot. It went down well, and was a great evening. We even got a sneak peek at what they’re working on!