Volumetrics setup

Blender basic volumetric smoke setup test.

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2D Characters

Some 2 characters concepts I've done those days...

Could be cool to animate this...

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(update)... Just done one of them in Blender (I can't help it!)

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...Mental Ray render :

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... then Blender again:
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Blender Particles Practice

Just gave a try to Blender particles. Blender has a "point render" solution named halo. You can map the alpha, color and size... Size take month to render I don't know why. Anyway My first test is a simple ball animation emitting 300 000 particles. The distrotion motion is given by a texture field. Render is very fast because of "point render" mean no geometry.

No smoke simultation was used here, just basics particles.

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blender 2 max script

"...It's a way of baking animation to a file, in the form of vertex locations, that can then be later streamed off disk, that can help not only for things like speeding up complex rig deformation playback, but also for i/o of animation data..."

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=105959