Tonight's HNT entry takes me into what I hope to be a whole new era in photo manipulation and creation. I have recently discovered a 3D animation and rendering software package called Blender . It's completely open source, which means it costs nothing. The quality of the rendered images rivals those from commercial packages that I've seen, including Brice, TrueSpace, Lightwave, and 3D Studio Max. I've seen some of the animations that people have made from these, and the images are nothing short of spectacular. A level of quality you'd expect from Pixar and DreamWorks Animation . The fact that it's free software (and I mean no cost, here) is not lost on me. So tonight I present to you my first true created-from-the-ground-up HNT.
The chess pieces were created using the Blender software and rendered from a model created by Xero_Xero . You can get the original model and see other images generated from it here. I modified the lights slightly to change the look, but I'm such a noob to Blender that truthfully, I had about as much an idea of what I was doing as phlegm does in a decongestant plant. I really had no idea what look I was going for, but I knew it had to look something like this. So here you go.
Happy HNT, everyone. If you're looking for HNT goodness, go visit OsBasso's place.
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1 Crimson // Nov 15, 2006 at 11:18 pm
That is very cool
2 Butterfly // Nov 15, 2006 at 11:34 pm
That is a great effect! Very cool!
Happy HNT!
3 Wenchy // Nov 16, 2006 at 12:25 am
That is just awesome!
4 Suze // Nov 16, 2006 at 3:52 am
That is absoultely wonderful! Can I make the first move?
Happy HNT sweetie
5 Regal // Nov 16, 2006 at 4:07 am
checkmate - HHNT
6 Snow White // Nov 16, 2006 at 4:21 am
Wow!!! Quite impressive! I’ve always wanted to try to manipulate photos, but alas, I’m not much good a manipulation! But I’m glad you are! HHNT!
7 Polt // Nov 16, 2006 at 4:29 am
Cool effect. Just don’t get in check! Or run over by a galloping knight.
HAPPY HNT!
8 lime // Nov 16, 2006 at 5:04 am
wow, cool effect. it will be interesting to see what you cmoe up with using this new toy.
HHNT
9 loz // Nov 16, 2006 at 6:54 am
that’s excellent, great job! happy hnt :).
10 Ag // Nov 16, 2006 at 8:33 am
That is way cool
HHNT
11 guttergirl // Nov 16, 2006 at 9:47 am
That is the coolest thing I have ever seen. I wish I could figure out how to do that kind of stuff. Happy HNT
12 SeaRabbit // Nov 16, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Great work!! Happy HNT!
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