Articles and Interviews

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

These are links to external websites where I am (or my work is) either featured or mentioned prominently in an article or interview.

Work in Progress

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

These images are showing the workflow and progress on this piece, titled Scout. It is continuing on the theme of the “Sentry“.

Upcoming events

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

This fall/winter I already have quite a few events to attend/speak at. This is where you might bump into me.

  • November 11th, I’m talking about sharing media, and the Creative Commons license at the mediapark in Hilversum, in cooperation with Kennisland.
  • December 3rd, I’ll be in Utrecht to give Blender 3D demos for Dutch Policy makers in cooperation with Kunstfactor.
  • Also I’ll be leading a 2 day Blender 3D workshop at the art academy in Cologne sometime this fall or early in Januari, dates to be confirmed.

Wrapping up Sintel and moving on

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

SintelI just now realised that I haven’t posted any news since the Durian Project Screening. A lot has happened since then!

Sintel premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival with great success! Not only that but it has already been released on the web, and has been seen by a couple million people! I also just now posted a series of stills from the film here to show you some of what I did. The posters have been printed, and delivered this week, and the DVD’s are on their way.

I finished my first Lenticular project. The very first proof print is currently at the gallery. Go there to see it, or… hang on for a bit, because we’re planning a lot more!

At long last I found the time to finish the “meerkat” (now titled Sentry). I started the image before I joined the Durian/Sintel team (over 6 months ago), and only now finished it. Already I’m getting a lot of positive responses, and am considering doing a small series in this style.

Last but not least… it is almost time for the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam. My work has been shown at similar events before but never this one. I’m very excited and will attend the fair myself on Wednesday the 27th of October during the “Private View”.

Stills taken from Sintel

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

External links

This is a small selection of stills from the short movie Sintel. Specificly from environments/shots that I contributed to. I worked on the movie as a modeller, lighter, & compositor during the first half of 2010. Go to www.sintel.org to watch/download the movie, and get more information about the project.

Final image

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

After exactly one month of development I’m finally calling this project finished. Most of the time went into learning the new technology. Currently I’m waiting for the printers to send me the actual Lenticular print.

I’m attaching the files the sequence was made with. I actually had to do multiple passes. Once just to create the cartoon edge, once to create the actual images, and then using a third file to combine the two. The “birender” file is the one that looks most like the end result. Be carefull though, I used a computer at the Blender Institute to render it because it would have just taken too long to do on my laptop.

Here is a small video recorded on my mobile of what the print looks like

Final image

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Downloadable Files

The Sentry is a still image I started working on before I joined the Sintel team. So all in all it took me more than 6 months to find the time to finish it. I’m glad I did!

It was technically challenging because it has nearly 3500 telescopes in it, and over 1000 birds in the background.

The file this render is made with is attached to this post… be carefull though, the full size render is 7400px wide and took over 10G of memory to composit.

You can download the file used to create this image from blendswap.com

Work in Progress

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

This is a series of images showing the workflow and progress of this piece.

To the printers!

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

It is that time… last night I sent the final image off to the printer/laminator. I spent all of yesterday at the Blender Institute rendering the images. They turned out rather well I have to say!

Crazy scale!

The final interlaced image is: 16992 by 9558 pixels, 111mB, and made up of thirty six 8496 by 4779 pixel images. It’s huge! But since it’s 720DPI it’ll only print 2 foot wide. Rendering the images on an incredibly quick computer took nearly 5 hours.

Time for a title.

Last thing… I need a title for the work…

Time is running out

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Downloadable Files

After working on the lenticular for quite a while already, today I truly realised how little time I have left. The affordable art fair is coming up quick! So… that leads me to some decisions.

Printing

I would have liked to print at a local place, which would have saved me quite a bit of money, but that would have been a lot of back and forth, both to the printer and the laminator. There’s no time for this at all. So in stead I’ll spend a bit extra and have the laminator print and adjust my image to get an optimal result. It does limit the scale of the final image somewhat. He can’t print wider than 60cm (2 feet), which is a shame… but saves me rendertime!

Design

I’m sticking with my original idea for the design even though I had my doubts. When a process takes this long, at a certain point you always start doubting yourself. I think this will work rather well. Here’s a single image from the sequence… still needs a little work!

Scripting

I’ve been doing a lot of scripting as well… A nice new little script is one I wrote to add a line to the left of any image. So I can just make a full size interlaced image, crop it… add the line (for aligning the lense sheet), then print. I’ll also attach the latest version of the interlacing script.

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