Blender - completed spaceship!

I have now completed this tutorial from Andrew Price. It was great to learn the ins and outs of Blender in terms of modelling, applying materials, lighting and compositing. I'm quite happy with this final result :-)

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Blender spaceship model

For those who are unfamiliar with Blender, it is a completely free 3D program, open source with a lot of free resources available.

I found this cool spaceship tutorial online by Blender teacher Andrew Price from Blender Guru. Over the past couple of days, I've spent a few hours modelling this spaceship. Blenders interface is nice and intuitive which makes it nice and quick to learn.

Here are a couple of pics of my work in progress:

For those who know Maya or 3ds Max, you are well catered for in Blender as you can use all the same hot keys. My next step will be to do the 2nd tutorial, texturing and compositing to create the final image.

In the mean time, here is some Blender Inspiration!

I am also intending to download a trial of Cinema 4D soon, it seems like every motion graphics job out there has it on their job description so it would be wise to learn it.

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Release of our 3D Grad film - "Kernel"

It has been over a year since I graduated but at long last, our fantastic 3D animated film "Kernel" has now been released on Youtube! Be sure to check it out with the lights turned off, the sound turned up and in full HD!

Synopsis:



Film:



Team:



Olly Skillman-Wilson: Director, Writer, Lighting Artist (3rd from right)
Laurence Nairne: Creative Producer, Script Editor, Animator (1st on left)
Charlie Minnion: Lead Compositor, Editor, Storyboard Artist (5th from left)
Hugh Herbert: Writer, Animator
Dan Emmerson: Animation Director
Luke Jefferson: Rigging, Texturing, Technical Director (5th from left)
Kai Fraser: Dynamics, Stereography (2nd from left)
Liam Fraser: Dynamics, Stereography (4th from left)
Jake Jones: Modelling, Texturing, Compositing (4th from right)
Ryan Mace: Modelling, Texturing, Compositing (2nd from right)
Nigel Kitts: Lead Texture Artist, Animator (1st on right)
Alan Matthewman: Fluid Dynamics, Cloth Simulation (3rd from left)

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KBS music video pitch

Recently, I pitched for a music video on Radar Music videos for a North London rapper by the name of KBS (Kainee Boi Set.) You can listen to the tune here: "Just A Ghost" by Kainee Boi Set.

Unfortuantely, the pitch fell through. Here is the pitch document I sent with my written treatment:



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In retrospect, I ran out of time to come up with an idea for the chorus & I think the initial KBS font in the intro is a bit to tame! Also the Tetris idea is a bit too obvious. I quite like the style I put together though.

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