Check out the new short from the Blender Foundation.

http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/

A couple of weeks ago Jill was working on the first scene located in the Brothus Nightclub. We had a few characters in the scene with partical hair that went crazy when we upgraded to the latest version of Blender. Version 2.46 just came out as a post “Big Buck Bunny,” version of Blender and it has some great advanced features that we are struggling to keep up with and incorporate into the project as appropriate. A complete re-write of the partical system with hair specific features was one of the upgrades, so our character files didn’t know what to do and when we opened them. The entire characters had become giant fuzz balls!

So we promptly made our characters bald to continue with blocking/animating the scene until we have time to get up to speed with the new hair features in Blender.

Jill also had been aching to explore an idea she has been developing for a while for an “signature” opening sequence for Imaginarium Foundation, similar to the “Boy fishing off the moon,” seen in SKG films. So setting the fuzz balls aside, Jill proceeded to sketch out a storyboard for the entire sequence so we could discuss the shots we projected would be needed to realize her vision. The next step Jill completed was creating models for the basic elements in the first few shots. Now she is entrenched in the process of setting up the animation for the first couple of shots. We’ll give you a preview of the sequence once we have shots nailed down.