Hello fellow Blenderheads! I am entering a video into the Skinit.com 60 second commercial contest. I used Blender to render and animate the 3D models, as well as some other elements. The actual electronic models were purchased on the web, as my skills and patience did no allow for the quality that I could buy (plus I got them at a really good price). All of the texturing, animation, lighting, and rendering was done in Blender.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkSpTL43_mg
See the other entries here - http://bit.ly/3QQa
I know the video is slow paced, but the video length had to be 60 seconds. I would have made it shorter if I could have, 30 seconds would have been a lot better.
And for those of you wondering, the models were purchased from The3DStudio.com and Turbosquid.com. I think they were modeled in 3D Studio Max.
The .obj laptop had a lot of triangles in it, and I tried to re-export the model from 3DS, but then I could not get it devided into portions, so I stayed with the one with triangles. The other models had no triangles at all, so getting it to look right in Blender was easy.
The scene with the mass of electronics was done by layering a render of the device on a 2D plane…then duplicating the planes a number of times. I don’t know how many planes were in that shot…but it was enough to slow Blender down quite a bit.
I had to use the regular internal Blender motion blur so I could get an alpha channel in the image, that really increased render times. I think I spent about a total of 2 or 3 days rendering the elements out at 1920x1080. A friend of mine helped with the rendering by using his PC that had 4 cores and 8 gigs of ram.
Anyway, hope you like the commercial, and if you do, please rate and comment, your feedback is one of the ways in which the commercials will be judged.
Also, the winning commercial of the contest may be aired on US television. In the past Skinit.com has aired commercials on MTV and ESPN, as well as local stations, so this could be a lot of “exposure” for Blender!
Oh, you might want to check the company website out. They offer customized skins for your cellphones, laptops, iPods, ect ('course if you watched the commercial you should know that!). Who wouldn’t want to pimp out their laptop with a skin featuring the Blender 3D logo?
Jeremiah