blenderartist.org and CJ is awesome

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#1

I don’t remember much of the old CJ, if I had I would be better at Blender today. But the new CJ is awesome. The same incredible blender artists that teach/help/ and slap people into shape(Mesh too) here at Elysiun show big artistic fangs at the CJ.
The latest video in MOV format is a great addition(Huge huge file though…approx. 260 mb zipped and 400+mb unzipped!). There are some things I saw in that video that I did not even realize and could improve my workflow:
-Smooth to change wire tension and to solve “concave quad” error(Great addition to the “Recalculate Normals outside box”).
-The forgotton “C” to connect/close verts(not mentioned in video, but done in there…I remember this from the curve section in the old documentation.
-The first time I saw a cool nostril crease without use of a triangle. Most modelers(Like Mr. Stahlberg and Torq) seem to know exactly where and where not to place triangles. I don’t like them at all, but I am sure as I get better at modeling, I’ll grow one on my forehead.
-rotate/scale around 3D cursor. I think everyone has been using this except me. I think I used it once in 2.33 when animating an eyelid…Once.

I am thankful for Blender/Elysiun/BlenderArtists/developers/scripters for a great outpost of kindness, artistic expression and inspiration not only for my 3D art but for my music. I used to think that pain brings out the best music…Not true at all; capturing all emotions is art.
Every day I load Elysiun into my browser I learn somthing new.

Thank you

#2

Your welcome!

And yes, the MOV file is huge, but well worth the download. Again, a huge thanks to mr_bomb for the effort put forth to do this for the community. As I stated in the CJ, if anyone can convert that video to DivX, or any other format, so all can see it, it would be greatly appreciated.

BgDM

#3

I’m glad you found it helpful, and thanks for taking the time to download it at such a huge size, I ran out of time to compress it.
I’m curious though as to what are you refering to with the “C” to connect/close verts?

#4

what movie are you guys talking about?

#5

The video tute in the new CJ. See the Announcement post at the top of this fourm.

BgDM

#6

I’m compressing it now. Should get down to about 60 MB final size, as a DIVX AVI.

looks pretty ok so far, but I can’t test sound

#7

I’m curious though as to what are you refering to with the “C” to connect/close verts?

yeah, I meant to comeback and edit my post this afternoon. I tried the tutorial and hit “C” and nothing happend then realized that all you did was hit “F” to create a new edge… I feel so dumb.
Great great tutorial though. [removal of dumb text by me]…[/removal of dumb text by me].Should I pull it into Virtualdub and spit out an avi or somthing using the Divx codec? Or do I have to know how to write video compression algorhythms? lol. Kidding. I will try tonight, I can’t sleep anyways.

BlenderArtists/CJ rocks!

I remember stumbling accrossed the old CJ years ago. Most the tutorials were about Blender Publisher, but cutting edge for those days too.

[edit]Ok, I tried…mabe not as hard as most, but most of the encoders and converters I found that claim to be able to read MOV files don’t. In fact, most suck. There was one that looked almost like a companion to VirtualDub, but…it sucked too. It’s a conspiracy. lol. Kidding…kinda. I guess tonight would be a good time to learn AviSynth. AviSynth actually sounds too good to be true. I guess you write simple scripts that fake out media players into thinking the text files are actual avi’s. I bet it’ sounds too good to be true, or why have no one ever mentioned avisynth on Elysiun if it’s so cool? If it’s cool, I usually hear it here first[/edit]