blender curve experiments - bend

Nikolaus Gradwohl2012-04-17T05:49:56+00:00

for this part of my blender curve experiments I made plenty of curves using an array modifier and used a shape key to move them

you can download the blend file here

curve bend

The Three Laws of Robotic

Nikolaus Gradwohl2012-04-16T05:56:37+00:00

I made an anmation of a robot reciting the Three Laws of Robotic

Because every Robot has to know them. They are the law.

The audio track was generated using freetts.

you can download the blend file here

and you can download the audio file here

Laws of Robotic

blender curve experiments - twist and bevel

Nikolaus Gradwohl2012-04-15T10:02:05+00:00

I desided to start a new series of blender experiments. This time I want to explore the possibilies of curve objects.

For this part of my blender curve experiments I tried to twist a beveled curve-object and change the bevel object using shape keys

you can download the blend file here

curve twist and bevel

blender particle experiments - forcefield

Nikolaus Gradwohl2012-04-14T07:53:18+00:00

for this part of my blender particle experiments I moved a forcefield through a particle system.

you can download the blend file here

forcefield

cycles material animation test 2

Nikolaus Gradwohl2012-04-13T06:46:11+00:00

This short animation is my second cycles material-animation test. This time I animated the IOR parameter of a glass material to make the letters go from nearly invisible to solid glass and then the mix parameter to turn it to a diffuse surface or metal

would make a nice effect for a film title

you can download the blend file here

animated material

cycles material animation test

Nikolaus Gradwohl2012-04-12T06:13:37+00:00

In this short video I experimented with animating the parameters of a node based material. In the first half I animated the color of a velvet node, and then the mixing value to blend between a the velvet material and a glass material

you can download the blend file here

animated material

scene test for my next shortfilm

Nikolaus Gradwohl2012-04-04T05:58:09+00:00

I made some rocks for my blender yet-to-be-named short film project today. Here is a testscene I made to compare the sizes of my robot character and the rocks

rocks

walking robot

Nikolaus Gradwohl2012-04-02T06:27:11+00:00

I made a short walk-cycle animation with a simple robot. This is another short test-render for my next short film project

you can download the blend file here

walking robot

blender audio visualizer

Nikolaus Gradwohl2012-04-01T16:16:46+00:00

I made another blender animation by using the smoothing modifier to very extreme values. This time I animated them using "bake sound to F-Curve"

The sound-track was generated using hydrogen and a korg monotron

you can download the blend file here

sound

old stairs

Nikolaus Gradwohl2012-03-31T14:19:59+00:00

The tower and the stairs are generated using array modifiers and cubes. I used the ivy-curve add-on to generate the ivy-vines.

I really like the stair and the lights, the stone material holds room for improvement.

download the blend file here or a hi-res version of the image here

stairs