I’m very pleased to announce that animations I designed and produced (using Blender) for Oxford Materials Lab’s 2008 participation in the British Royal Society’s Summer Exhibition will also be used in the current lobby exhibit of the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as background for the exhibit’s video featuring 2012 Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. David J. Wineland. The animations illustrate various theoretical and experimental concepts in the field of quantum information processing, aka quantum computing. The video montage below was produced in '09 using portions of the sequences produced for Oxford. All graphic overlay work was produced in Blender, as well as the 3D model portions, with texture production in Photoshop.
Very nice of you to share your work with us. Always nice to see the many fields Blender can be used in.
At the time, was there a decision to made about which 3D suite program you would use, or were you already so comfortable with Blender that you simply got to work straight away?
As has happened number of times, I started my participation in the project in '08 with a discussion on a Blender-centric forum. Blender was both a comfortable and a capable choice, so I had no other considerations in that regard. One portion of the total footage was produced by another animator using a different app, not sure which, but the “me & Blender team” seems to have been more than just capable – I’ve since done a number of other projects for Dr. Benjamin at the Oxford Materials Lab.
Congrats for your work!