about 2d, 3d, blender, travels
Having seen a compilation of some good transparent screens photos (check out smashingmagazine.com) I decided that I should give it a try. So here are my 2 results.
Nothing fancy as I did not do not have good lights and I am lazy to clean my appartement for a nicer layout 
Still it is very fun to do and really easy. It’s real photography, Photoshop used just for the end color correcting.
Just a quick screenshot of something funny that happened during a recent test.
While working with a footage image called ist2_11456255-female-assistant, I changed some folder’s name and AE couldn’t find it anymore so it places a placeholder :
As some of you know I have been traveling for a while now, and while still enjoying the great landscapes of Argentina and Chile I did take my MacBook with me and found some time between the different buses to play around with my iPhone and Blender.
I shouldn’t say it too loud but I have a jailbreaked iPhone, and as it is running unix based I thought i will try to use the XCode tools and Apple Iphone SDK tools to compile a svn version of the blender trunk sources to run on iphoneOS. Imagine how hard it was typing a command like:
gcc -ansi -Opengl E/S -O3 -o blender blendergl.c -lglut
on the tiny touchy iphone keyboard. Well after a while I had the idea to d/l a ssh server on the iphone and so connecting through SSH helps a lot as i could use the mac keyboard to type all the needed commands
But it was nevertheless not an easy job at all! A looooots of libraries were missing, had to be specially compiled for the iPhone. One of the hardest to get was iphone-glu which is an opengl utility library used for some polygon tesselation functions. But luckily there is always google and some geeks at the #compile-blender chans on freenode, thanks to them for helping me.
Viewing a 3d Scene in the bus
As you can see the size of the screen doesn’t allow much working on it, but it is ok to view 3D scenes, although I only managed to orbit the camera around, not to zoom, zoom would immediately crash 
Well that it for now, I think now we just have to wait to see a jailbreaked ipad for having bigger resolutions. Blender in multitouch can be fun !! It is really a great day 
EDIT : this post was written on april 1.st 2010 . It is thus an April’s fool, but hopefully someone will port blender or some part of it to android…maybe for viewing, or sculpting.
While trying to sleep in the bus and having so many things going through mind I started asking myself: is Durian going to be successfull ( i do believe it) and so when is it going to reach the million viewer? As I think it will make even more noise in CG-world than BBB or ED, the subject being attractive (teen-style girl fighting bad guys with a dragon in a medieval fantastic world) , and after some abstract math (potential summer pre-siggraph release + snowball effect delay) I came to the useless but fun conclusion that Sintel/Durian movie will reach 1 million views on September 14th at 18h10 amsterdam time (either on youtube or vimeo).
What is your guess?
For info (data on 16.03.2010):
Elephants Dream youtube : 500’000
ED Vimeo : 200’00
Big Buck Bunny youtube : 1.05 million
BBB Vimeo : 1.3 million
During last blendercamp we had a day off and went to a very nice lake rowing a bit and enjoying the view (although a bit cloudy it was still great). Someone took a silly picture (or maybe it was simply me doing silly) of me and the safety buoy.
After coming back i just potoshoped it in 3 minutes to get this funny useless result:
Well this week and weekend was a bit of very hard work for Pablo and myself as we are in the last days of the new project, and it was rendering time! Render is often a very stressful time, because of render frames results, render farm not always working with all feature (i will talk about our little brender system later) and seeing that you missed to enabe an important layer at frame 327 or this kind of surprises…
but as you can see on our photos it can also be a kind of fun time Yes computers do work for us.
Pablo was kind of better at mini-minigolf than me.
But now its back to work and lets check those renders! I will post pictures as soon as i can.
and after that much time i finally discovered a great new shortcut! press SPACEBAR and a new menu with loooooooots of amazing options pops up ! 
and that was my first silly blog post
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