Category: Animations

Made in Blender.

Mysteries lie under the oceans, do not disturb!

Made in Blender.

I turned the old Doodlebug tanker into a Doodlebug Adventure RV!

Made in Blender.

Ace is out dancing on wings!

Made in Blender. Messing around with timelapse images and dynamic paint effects…

Made in Blender.

Rush through an old abandoned mine shaft in a runaway mine cart!

Made in Blender.
A cool ride through the high mountains along the Skeena River on a fake bike…

How it was made:

I made a 10 second screen capture clip of the Blender interface from the railway crossing section of the “16 by the Skeena” animation to show how this all works.

This was done in several steps.  I imported a series of short dash cam videos from a recent trip to Prince Rupert into Blender to combine and speed them up, and rendered a 12,000 frame sped-up video clip.  This clip was further processed by hand-animating the camera tilts and position to produce the “final” input video clip which will be used in the final Blender 3d scene.

In this Blender scene, the resulting “tilted” video clip render is displayed on the two shaped background planes that the camera sees in Blender, one in front and one behind (which provides the moving reflection in the headlight).  As you can see, other than positioning on the “road”, there’s very little actual movement in this animated scene (as it’s all done by the input video), and the motorcycle is really only the front wheel from a trike model.

Just some of the fun stuff you can do in Blender, available for free at blender.org!

Made in Blender.
My virtual version of the Edison Motors “Topsy” hybrid-electric semi on the test track with a load of logs.