Hello team :-)

Hello Folks.

It was great meeting you all in Hyderabad. Meeting face to face makes a lot of difference when it comes to remotely interacting teams.

I would like to share some links with you all relating to Blender and computer graphics (Some of these i mentioned during our meeting that day)

Interactive Tutor: Fluid Simulation in Blender

Interactive Tutor: Softbody Simulation in Blender

Precision Modeling using Blender

Blender 3D: Product Rendering

A pointer for beginners: Attitude & Perception

The Science For Computer Graphics

And a very informative tutorial that everybody must watch. This gives you an in-depth overview of some of the most important features of Blender. You can also download the video from the vimeo page.

[Tutorial] Realtime Stone with detail maps in Blender from Pelle Johnsen on Vimeo.

I will post more info and tutorials in future posts.

Cheers,
Satish.

One Step Further

After finishing our apparently human figure, we had a meeting with our mentor at IIT. Though he did praise us forgetting ourselves introduced to modelling (i atleast hope he did!!), he said that we should be heading our directions towards modelling scientific apparatus as our goal was to animate chemical experiments. He also suggested to us that we try make glass and try making water as they were two important materials in an experiment.

We first tried to get the glass effect for the material. On the same wikibook mentioned in the previous post, there was a tutorial to make agreen goblet. We followed that tutorial to make this goblet..


As you can see the goblet did not come out to be as expected. We did work on this later and produced a goblet(i shall post this later, maybe tomorrow or dayafter). We added the glass effect to this but it took about 2 hrs to render. Hence we made a cube and gave it the same effects and The results were as follows!!

The .blend file is


The screenshot of the rendered image is as follows..



As we can see, we acheived a breakthrough and could now give the glass effect to materials..

Will Keep u Posted on further progress.

Thanks,

Kaeyur

The Beginning

We started our blender learning journey by accesing the following wikibook http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro.

We went through the tutorial in detail and learnt the basic functions and buttons of blender. The first tutorial which we encountered was the one to make a simple man using just cubes and a sphere!!!

The outcome of this exercise was the following..



The apparently human figure was got by just extruding the first cube block which we is present as default. the sphere was then added to look like the head!!!

The body was set as parent and the whole image was set smooth!!! The apparently human figure was thus born!!


If one notices closely one can see a eye shade kind of thing. This was got by getting a line and spinning it to get a type of hat. This was also from the wikibook. It was there as a tutorial just after the human figure..

Thus from noobies we graduated a little though a very small one but learnt the basics of modelling.


Thanks and Bye. Will keep updating as progress is acheived!!!


Kaeyur