Blender Realism – eco robot

Made in Blender 2.46.  Wow!

http://www.blendernation.com/ecorobot/

Secret of Kells … Blender!

A great looking animation made partly in Blender.  Check out the website too.

http://www.thesecretofkells.com/

Welcome Back for 2010

Hope you all had a good holiday and a refreshing break from studies and are enjoying the new layout and extra space in the DG room.  If this is your first time on the Design Central website take some time to look around and peruse last years offerings and follow the links to other student blogs.  Students who have left LCS to go on to further education or employment have had their links moved to the ALUMNI section of the blog and some of you alumniated (new word!) will hopefully continue to update these in the future with design related snippets.  Just email me to remove the link from the page. 

Anyway it’s time to start reorganising and updating this site for the new classes and the new year.  Feel free to make suggestions and requests to help make this an increasingly useful and interesting resource for your design development.

Don’t Forget Adobe TV

http://tv.adobe.com

It’s free and it’s excellent. Get into it.

BLENDER 2.5

 Blender 2.5  includes a whole new interface, great new modifiers and text driven command searches and much more.  I really like the look of it, am amazed by the way the smoke and liquid modifiers/simulations work and I’m looking forward to using it.  Check it out at Blender Nation.  Some might say 2.5 is for Blender what Obama is for the US.  I probably wouldn’t go that far.  Keep your eye out for more Durian previews too.

http://www.blendernation.com/index.php?s=Blender+2.5

PIXEL PINKIE LAUNCH ON WIN TODAY

Pixel Pinkie launched today on WIN TV in Tassie and NINE on the big island.  While I didn’t watch the first episode I would be interested to see what sort of flavour the series has.  The audience is tweenage girls and the content of the website is similar to other  multi-platform media merchandising machines.  The website is very well put together with clear and contemporary styling and ease of navigation and some interesting little features like using ”pixels” to buy stuff to do up your own virtual world and a home page that responds with interactive niceities to your mouse overs

In terms of the content of the TV series I wonder whether Blue Rocket has broken any new ground or just recycled the same cultural forms saturating ABC Kids and other cartoon and child oriented TV.   Blue Rocket’s blurb would indicate that the overall plot is about challenging the current stereotypes on modern feminine beauty and coolness with a “being true to yourself ” theme running through the series.  Does it acheive this purpose?  Well that remains to be seen.  What do you think?  Was it worth the $650,000 that Screen Tasmania invested in the show?  Does it raise the bar for children’s television in content, style and purpose?  Does it help to give Australian media production more credibility or less?  Or is Pixel Pinkie just more of the same and soon to be forgotten?  Vote in the poll and leave a comment. 

For all those Pre T’ C,G &D students it is well worth noting the fact that Blue Rocket is on the up and up have a lot of  interesting stuff  to play and view on their website.  They are FLASH fanatics with great ideas for functional navigation, nifty layout and simple yet effective 3D visualisations and animations.  Check it out. Research them,  contact them and get inspired to make your own cool stuff.  Enjoy.

 

http://pixelpinkie.tv/

http://www.blue-rocket.com.au/homepage.html

Former LCS Teacher Gets Name in Lights for UTAS Ad

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/07/28/87341_tasmania-news.html

Mr Kuilenburg recently won the UTAS advertisement competition.  Well done Mr. K!

WOW!

http://tools.themercury.com.au/video/video_popup.php?vid=1555

Make a Little You on Vista Print.

Have fun making a caricature of yourself.  Click on mine to have a go.

XTRA NORMAL IS EXTRAORDINARY FUN

This is a great little animation builder.  Good for a laugh and a powerful tool to test your storyboards, listen to dialogue and share your ideas with others quickly.

Google xtranormal  – For some reason the links kept taking people to my facebook login – dodgy.