Long time update

The house project is nearly completed.  The next step is just to make a walk through animation.  I decided not to add any furniture just in the interest of time and my patience with the project.  The materials certainly aren’t perfect, but I think that it gives an accurate description of the layout of the house, which was the purpose from the beginning.  Look for an update in the next couple of weeks with a final animation.

Next, after reading an article in the local paper this weekend about Argon Zark, the online webcomic, I discovered that the creator grew up about ten minutes from my place.  This is more inspiring than I thought actually, so it reminded me of a webcomic I had seen made with Blender not too long ago.  This comic is Us the Robots, made by a kid (I say kid because he is only 19, which is also inspiring) named Sam entirely in Blender.  The comic itself is very well done and the artwork is excellent.  There are some very funny “episodes,” so I encourage you to check it out!

All this webcomic talk got me thinking about what it would take to actually make one and I set out to see what I could do, or at least give it a try.  In my searching I found a nice little model and rig by a Blender Artist named FreakyDude of a basic stick figure.  He is fully rigged and amazingly posable.  I haven’t played with him for very long, but he is really good fun to play with!  After watching some repeat olympic gymnastics last night I did a quick render:

Look for more little scenes with this guy, he is fun!