Here is an animation test with my jalapeño pepper for my Dancing Taco short film.
The Dancing Taco Project is a personal project I adopted just a few days ago, and depending on how well the work flows out or if I run into any big stumbling blocks – or it takes way too much time and I loose interest – I may not complete it. But here’s to hoping that I it will come to glorious completion!
JaNoWriMo has started, but I have barely started. Instead of writing on my 2007 in hopes of completing it I may use the time to write script material for my live action show I might create. Who knows? We’ll see which route I end up spending most of my time on.
God bless and Happy New Year!
2009 rocks!
-b
P.S. A big thanks to Tim Formica for helping me with the materials/lighting. Also, thanks to Doom9.net for the excellent help on using QuEnc. My video went from being too compressed and the wrong aspect ratio to what it is now. Thanks, Doom9.net! And thanks for all your help, Tim Formica!
P.P.S. This test animation was made with Blender, an excellent open source 3D modeling, animation, and rendering app. Check it out, it’s free!
The video on that page is inspiring, especially the words of the filmmakers:
I make media that matters
If I can get my video editing problems figured out into a consistent, reliable, and proficient workflow, I would love to participate in this challenge.
I am now participating in the Morevna Project and am working on learning how to draw one of the main characters, Ivan, as well as drawing a soldier design suggestion.
Check out our new Minosa Films Production Forum! Sign up to the Forest Quest forum (follow the link and hit “Register”) and start discussing current projects (uh… well, we don’t really have any current project discussions on there yet… LOL)
I’m now part of the Morevna Project team. I don’t know all that I’ll be contributing at this point, but I definitely want to get better at my manga (anime) drawing!
The Morevna Project wiki on Synfig.org
Still haven’t resolved all my software (editing) issues. I have been sidetracked on that. Also have a hardware need.
I hope to edit a film some friends and I worked on together. It’s not a Minosa Films production per se, but it will really help me to learn my editing and test out whether or not I really can or cannot edit (at least with this workflow…) And besides that, I will get part one of a film done, gain skills, and make my friends really happy! ;D
Production Plan:
Title
Status
Scheduled Shoot
About
Is This Love?
WIP
N/A
A (very) short film depicting the true sacrifice of love
Family First
>Some work has been done
N/A
A lovely drama short film about a father/daughter turmoil and resolution
Promo
WIP
Optional moon shot done
Minosa Films’ very own promotion video!
Hope to get this all worked out… glad for possibilities, wishing for resolutions…
Also, we now have a production forum of sorts. Check it out here.
Create an account and start posting! Some sections in this category (of the forum) may eventually be locked for Minosa Films users only – that is, those who I give the password to.
Aaanyhow, thanks for all, and your prayers especially,
Yes! Finally! Praise God! My first real article has been accepted to BlenderNation (BlenderNation is the central news site for Blender, the free open source 3D content creation suite.[1])
Read the article now!
I am so glad and highly appreciative that my article as been accepted. I have been endeavoring to get an article submitted for some time now, and had somewhat given up hope (for a time) that I would ever get something submitted. But Bart (Bart Veldhuizen, BlenderNation’s primary contributor and founder) has been cleaning out the backup of article suggestions that the Blender open source community has been sending in. A recent addition to BlenderNation has been the “Rapid Fire” articles, shooting off multiple, short article suggestions and links. A wonderful idea!
So, I am very thankful for Bart accepting my article! And I am also thankful to Zelgadis (Head of the Morevna Project) for leading the open source community of Synfig in an endeavor to create this open source animé film and for letting me know my article had been submitted (I hadn’t found out yet!) Also many thanks to the Morevna Project open source community contributors and all the open source developers, artists, and enthusiasts of many kinds spanning the globe.
As the days pass by and progress is made in various areas, one may wonder what happened to Minosa Films – like, where are the films?!
Well, I suppose everything has a journey. And each journey has it’s pilgrims, and once in a while, you run across a hero. Well, I am a pilgrim. And I need to do my part, and my part is not only the technical side of making sure we have a camcorder that will work, but scripts to make movies from. So, I need to write scripts. We have one script for a film titled “Is This Love?”, and I plan to make revisions upon it (basically add to/and or rewrite it.) I think it would be wise to have more than one script on hand, so, I need to write! 😉
Recently I found out about a neat project called Morevna Project. Check it out here: morevnaproject.org. I am considering contributing to it. From the website:
The main goal of Morevna Project is creation of full-lengthened anime movie, utilizing Open Source software only.
Other goals:
Promotion of Open Source software and its ideology.
Testing and improving existing Open Source products by giving appropriated feedback to developers and community.
Validate Open Source tools as suitable for creation of professional good-looking animation.
Provide content for other artists to learn from or to re-use, including documentation and tutorials
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