Ok, so this one is not entierly done in Blender, or even mainly done in Blender. However Blender made it really easy to do the in and out shots for this one thanks to the easy-to-use particle collision system.
More information and pictuers can be found here.
If you just want the video click:
Blender was used for the number shower. After Effects was used for basically everything else. I had a lot of fun making this one; let me know what you think.
Hi
I’ll be very pleased to watch the movie but I can’t!!!
Why you encode your work in WMV format?
Are you sponsorised or working for Microsoft?
Bye
Very good. I like a Blender animation with a little plot to it.
WMV, is good for internet (not for MAC, I guess), because it has the best over-quality/compression with streaming video. You can watch the video while it downloads. The quality is not that bad.
Not viewable on OS X ,including with windows media player.
No its not.
Here is a XVid version. It ended up being double the size of the WMV version for the same quality, which is exactly why I use it
Filtering on WMV is some of the better that I have seen, it tends to get fuzzy at low bit rates instead of artifacting. There is also the capability to progressive download. QuickTime has this capability, but I have not found a codec that matches the quality.
Really odd that it won’t play on OSX, I’m going to investigate further. You might want to try VLC player, which runs on the mac and generally can play just about anything. I had been using MS-MPEG4, also not too mac-friendly but easy to use and generally pretty good quality.
Maybe I am doing something wrong but whenever I try something like DivX or XVid it always looks like garbage when placed side by side to a WMV of the same bit-rate.
Sweet compositing. Timing was very nice indeed. No crits to speak of. Keep up the good work!
Really cool, I love it. How did you get yourself in that animation without professional bluescreen?
Thanks for the comments!
The video was shot in a studio at school that has a green painted wall. No fancy chroma green paint, just some cans picked up at the hardware store. Unforutnatly, it was just a wall, so there was a lot of manual mask manipulation to get the feet. Here is a shot of the studio setup from the original video:
For those that want to play WMV on the Mac, I’ve talked to a friend with OSX and they are using MPlayer.
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Yes it is.
looks great, job well done 
OTO, wmv on Linux = mplayer 
cheers
AH ok , thats pretty cute. Looks like something that would be good for a childrens show perhaps. Good job!
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Yes it is.[/quote]
I wasn’t refering to the quality. I’m pointing out the fact that proprietary, Windows only formats cause problems, as this thread clearly demonstrates. For instance, this codec would not be a good choice to put ones demo reel on. If the prospective employer is on a Mac, he or she is simply going to move on to the next one.
FYI, the WMV would not play under VLC or Mplayer on OS X. AFAIK, the WMV3 codec is not playable at all on a Mac.
I think Flip4Mac (search google) is supposed to change this but in general Windows media isn’t good. It’s odd because to Mac users, Windows media looks pretty bad in terms of quality i.e. blocky and jumpy and Windows users say the same about Quicktime movies. It’s as if the companies have deliberately sabotaged their own players so it looks better on their platform.
H264 should be used by everyone shortly and hopefully it’ll put this format rubbish to rest. I just wish M$ would stop competing with open standards with their proprietary media.