Ever Hobbes

I’ve done a test render using Blender and Luxrender at 720p to test out the limitations of animation using Luxrender. That’s why I’ve used multiple materials.

The clear poor performers are the rough glass and glass materials. Render settings were adjusted for high speed so I’m actually really pleased with how well most materials render at with only 2 minutes per frame. For future animations the time necessary for clearing up even the glass materials should be reasonable even at HD quality.

No sound, sorry. Also, apologies for fireflies and the “T” cracking a little too early. Physics were calculated with Blender’s internal game engine bullet physics. Letter shards were created using the “Fracture” tools plugin.

I’m very pleased with and have learned a bundle from this test! And hooray for my first YouTube upload!

Tags: 3d, animation, Blender, logo, luxrender, physics, render

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Nov
07

Flying SU-37 Fighter Jet

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by Ever Hobbes

I’ve rendered out a little bit more of a dynamic image for my fighter jet that I modeled in Blender. This time in flight.

Tags: 37, airplane, fighter jet, flanker, jet, plane, su, su-37, su37

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Sep
23

Modern Fighter Jet

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This is a fighter jet I’ve modelled for a Blendswap contest. It is inspired by the SU-37 flanker series jet made by Russian aircraft company Sukhoi.

The model is fully rigged and textured. Also comes with optional nose-art. Armature movement is automatic where appropriate (landing gear only requires rotating one bone, wheels and turbines spin automatically when moving forward etc.). Detailed instructions are included in the file.

For those interested you can download the .blend file HERE Simply download and open in Blender (both the file and Blender are free for any use).

Tags: 37, airplane, fighter jet, flanker, jet, plane, su, su-37, su37

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Sep
23

Airplane Nose Art

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Nose Art for my airplane model I’ve created in Blender.

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Aug
30

Character Illustration

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Character illustration of one of the protagonists from the animation I am working on. Just for the fun and the practice.

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Aug
19

Major Motoko Kusinagi, Ghost in the Shell

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A new picture of Motoko from Ghost in the Shell. The character design is kind of a mix between the original movie, and the newer TV series – Stand Alone Complex.

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Jun
03

Techno Flower Anime Watercolour Style Illustration

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I got a decent sized picture frame for free from a cousin so I decided to make an artwork for it. It’s a bit of a larger format and different aspect ratio than I’m used to but it was fun as a semi-quick one shot.

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Mar
27

More Jedi, More Star Wars

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I wanted to do a better render for the Togruta Jedi that I’d created. Something that was a bit more flattering and dynamic with the model. I may even do more with this character. It’s hard to get too much Star Wars

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Mar
11

Session 2: Conceptualization

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by Ever Hobbes

Conceptualization for Rendering and Animation In this session we are creating the basis for the entire project. Arguably the most important step since what we do now determines the entire course of the project. This is the area where we get all our ideas down so that they can fight it out for supremacy. All …

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Feb
28

Minecraft Fan-Art

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I’ve been addicted to Minecraft for the last month or so. I thought I’d do some fan art of the iconic tools. I might expand this to include more tools at some point, but these ones were the tools that most easily translated to a 3D object. Since all the items in the games are 1 dimensional I thought it would look funny to model something like the bucket since it would require changing the design or having a “flat” bucket.

Those of you that have never played Minecraft I highly recommend checking it out at www.minecraft.net – it plays on all platforms Win, Mac, Linux. And it’s so addicting, even my wife is playing it now.

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Jan
24

Super Mario is a Super Douchebag

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by Ever Hobbes

I’ve made a shocking discovery recently regarding Super Mario 3 for the NES. It all started after I watched this video from College Humor http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1937585 Now, any video gamer worth their salt has played Super Mario 3. I myself played it countless times as a kid. But unfortunately as a kid I would either lose …

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Jan
15

Session 1: Workflow

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Here I've made a sample timeline for Pixar based on information from thier website.

There are many large digital animation companies in existence today that all specialize in different markets, applications and end products. However, many share a similar vein in the way they go about CG production and the order of operations required to achieve great animation. For instance, companies might create animation for feature length films, video games, TV shows, or commercials. One shared and highly important aspect of all animation is that it tell a story. That it communicate something to the audience.

Tags: cg, pipeline, pixar, workflow

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Jan
15

New Illustrated Story!

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It’s called “The Rabbit Who Cheated Death”. Check it out at HERE.

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Jan
01

Socks Render

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Inspired by a cool pair of socks so I modelled a silly scene. Modelled in Blender 2.5 + and rendered with LuxRender 0.7 + and Blender for the laptop screenshot.

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Dec
30

Quick Sculpt and (lux)Render

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Just did a quick sculpt in Blender and it turned out nice so I rendered it up in Luxrender. 19114 polygons, material is just a simple luxrender “glossy” material with a small absorption layer. Original image was rendered at 1100 x 1700 pixels. Samples per pixel was somewhere up in the 4000′s after about 16 hours of render time. Bloom and a slight vignette were added later with Luxrender’s internal effect layers. The plaque just has gibberish Lorem Ipsum text.

This turned out so nice that I might do more speed sculpts in the future – especially once I get my new Wacom tablet.

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Dec
24

The Course Outline

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by Ever Hobbes

I personally designed this course for myself so that I would have a way to show my skills to people in a tangible way other than just a diploma on the wall. I am primarily self-taught in CG and 3D art. I went to post-secondary for Industrial Design, and if I were to do it again I would probably major in 3D animation, but as it stands I am in no rush to go back to being a starving student. I also just generally learn better and enjoy learning more when I teach myself than when I sit in a classroom.

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Dec
06

What would you do with Infinity?

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Suppose you were given infinity – what would you do? And not just a slice of infinity, I mean every infinity you can get – time, space, power, capability. My answer: I would do everything. And it is that concept I’d like to explore with this post. If a human being is given such an …

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Dec
01

Togruta Jedi

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I was on a Star Wars kick for a while, so I decided to do some fan art of one of the slightly lesser played alien species. Although there is a Togruta Jedi Padawan featured prominently in the newer Clone Wars animated series.

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Nov
01

Death Riding a Velociraptor

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It’s Death riding a Velociraptor. Because what else would he ride! Modelled and rendered in Blender, including the smoke in the background. This is my first experiment with the new smoke simulation tools in Blender and I’m fairly pleased with the results.

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Oct
03

Digitally Draw and Colour: From Start to Finish

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by Ever Hobbes

I show you the process behind taking an intial drawing to a final finished piece. Everything from scanning, cleaning colouring, and rendering.

Tags: Blender, Color, Coloring, Colour, Colouring, Illustration, Inking, Photoshop

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Oct
01

Transformers Fan Art

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Some fan art after seeing “Revenge of the Fallen”. I was sad that Fortress Maximus wasn’t in it, or Unicron for that matter. There’s always movie #3 to hope for though.

Image modelled and rendered with Blender.

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Sep
04

An In Depth Look at Digital Colouring

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by Ever Hobbes

A detailed exploration of using photoshop to colour line art.

Tags: Color, Coloring, Colour, Colouring, Digital Color, Digital Colour, Illustration, Photoshop

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Sep
01

Sushi Attack!

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I suppose this is my advertisement for vegetarianism. Modelled and rendered in Blender.

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Aug
03

Easy Drawing Shortcuts for Lazy People Like Me

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by Ever Hobbes

Do you want to draw but find the task difficult and overwhelming? Me too!

Tags: digital art, drawing, Illustration

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Aug
01

Cammy White from Street Fighter

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Made this around the time Street Fighter 4 came out. And wasn’t I pissed when they came out with Super Street Fighter 4. Looking forward to the new Marvel vs Capcom.