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I created a new background image for my computer today using a volumetric material in cycles.

you can download the blend file here

or you can download a larger version of the image here

a caged boid particle blob rendered with blender

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this is a first test of the fire capabilities in the new blender 2.71 testbuild.

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here are the material nodes I used for the flames and the smoke.

For this animation animation I combined a cell-fracture explosion and some particle traces using the bTrace addon. To make the shards of the plane move I placed a force field below the shards and turned the gravity off. The particles are not influenced by the force field, but by a turbulence field placed above the plane.

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for this animation I used the rigid body physics simulation of blender. The only lightsource is the icosphere that bounces through the peg board

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This is my second experiment with the blender boolean modifier. For this video I used two of them, a first one to create the slices of the sphere and a second one to make them appear in the first half of the video

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For this animation I created a spiral curve and turned into a mesh. Then I used a build modifier and a skin modifier to create the base mesh for the hair particles to grow on. Unfortunately the hair particles shift when the underlying mesh grows - hence the "slash hammer" effect

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for this animation I used two build modifier and a skin modifier. I wanted to construct and deconstruct the structure, but I didn´t want to just reverse the rendered frames so I used one build modifier to create the structure and a second one thats running in reverse mode to deconstruct it. The second modifier starts at frame 200.

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for this animation I used 150000 particles and the molecular addon by Jean-Francois Gallant

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I have created some animations using the fluid simulator in blender before but this experiment is the first one I really like. The material is a mixture of a glass node, a transparent node and a glossy node. The fluid was rendered with a resolution of 300 and a subdivision of 2. If you want to render it your self - be warned it takes some time.

you can download the blend file here