The 2012 observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust will focus on the theme “Children and the Holocaust”. This video was made in blender using this technique.
This is my little, tiny contribution to not forget
Fernando Luceri
Do you remember the scorpion protagonist of this short? Here he is now out of a CG environment to get a walk in a real environment. After following the workshop of Sebastian König (here, thanks to topix, you can find a video of the workshop) I wanted to try the new feature in Blender 2.61. View Full Article »
Viewconference 2011 Torino 25-28 october – Congress Center Torino Incontra TOP-IX (TOrino Piemonte Internet eXchange)
organizes a series of workshop related to the digital media managment: Make content for animation and cinema with the integration of open source tools. View Full Article »
Around there are some videos in which the explode modifier is actually used so ridiculous. The cause is probably that this modifier (like many things in Blender) is not as intuitive to use. View Full Article »
in my last article I mentioned the “additive alpha” calling it a hidden feature. This has intrigued some, of course, so that I am here to give some explanation. View Full Article »
From darkness to light… this is the journey made in the creation of this image. And, as often happens, the choice to move from darkness to light has not been a deliberate artistic choice but It is derived from the discovery of a hidden feature of blender (the addictive alpha). View Full Article »
I made a cover and booklet of a very special CD. “Giuseppe Verdi Rock Tribute “.
I rendered in cycles the progetto verde shuttle.
Here is the first animation made with Cycles (at least for me). Actually the new rendering engine does not yet support animation so I had to save one frame at a time.
In my last article I said that I used blender to make the white balance of some photos.
This has led curiosity in a lot of people have asked me to look into.
is very simple View Full Article »
Today (apr.07, 2011) in the Department of Physics, University of Salento was presented the book
“Functional approach to visual disorders – The Basics” by Prof. Luigi Seclì.
I treated all the graphics. View Full Article »
Each pass of Blender rendering can be manipulated in the compositor. In most cases the meaning of this manipulation is evident. For example, increase the contrast or the brightness of a rendering or invert the alpha.
But nothing prevents us to edit less comprehensible parameters such as the speed vector. View Full Article »
Great news about the color correction series.
Firstly I want to point out a valuable add-on that simplifies the use of these presets. In addition to this it was issued the new BMI ( Blender Italian Magazine)
In February, I worked for the spark to a commercial for the national anti-drug campaign.
A so important event was occasion for the spark for a challenge! Use Blender and other open source software instead of a commercial program, to make special effects. View Full Article »
I started to transfer files of the ” progetto verde” from blender 2:49 to Blender 2:55 . I take this opportunity to fix and improve some things.
The creative and “fashion” aspect of the color grading would not allow the use of presets. for this, our rig node this time represents a kind of a toolbox, ready to use and to edit to get the desired result. View Full Article »
we are the fourth of five articles, in the next: grand finale with the color grading. But now we talk about color mapping. View Full Article »
If it is difficult to understand if an image is too red (or too little) or too green, it is even harder to understand if there are too red (or green or blue) only in the shadows of an image, or only in the bright part or in the middle. View Full Article »
In a blender compositor to increase or decrease the brightness, there is a node on purpose (brightness and contrast), so also for the saturation of the image (hue and saturation). There are other ways to get better results. In this second round we talk about that. View Full Article »
In these articles we will discuss a series of node rigs you can freely download. These sets allow you to have fast previews of many settings for color correction. You can compare the results and get inspired by results never imagined.
A video “breakdown” that briefly describes all the steps for a special effect created with Sergio Stivaletti, one of the greatest horror special effects experts in Italy.
A way to paint texture in blender like zbrush mode. With .blend file to download.
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28/10/2010 Workshop live streaming “Special Effect, the italian horror tradition meet the open source” . Start 14.15
A workshop tells about the experience with Sergio Stivaletti. Four hours to study a scene from concept to publication. Turin for the “View Conference 2010″
A simple trick to separate the Cast shadows from Form shadows in compositor.
Downloadable node rig in blender that trasform a video from modern to typical Italian B-movies of the 70s.
Presentation and trailer of “The Serial” a low budget film produced by ” Zero Project “
downloadable collection of materials try to simulate the hand sketch and technical drawing
Videoclip with virtual reconstruction of the famous painting by Raffaello Sanzio -” Sposalizio di una Vergine ”
A tips to change the direction of loop in a single face.
On 20 and 21 May 2010 I gave it two lessons on blender and animation at the Assembly Hall , Department of Mathematics and informatics, University of Catania.
From 20 May 2010, in the splendid backdrop of Sicily, are going to be held
a series of Events which Computer Graphics theme will be.
I dusted off some of my old work, a few things that bother me leave in the drawer.
presentation of Groch : one of the actors of the short movie of “progetto verde”
