Thread: Tell me about computer animation

Thankyou Slash! You've been a very useful engine.

I'll never go back from Blender, it's just way to fast. The problem with software engineering is that you've got to decide on speed of workflow, or ease of use. Blender is for those who can learn keyboard shortcuts I wish I could find my rendition of The Raven. I made a cool animation, but I lost it when my computer died.

So, you DON'T use blender?

No, I'm good at keyboard input, I'm very efficent at blender. At work I have access to Autodesk, but I'll stick with my good old free Blender. My only beef with Blender is it's render speed, but you can swap out the rendering engine with Indigo or Yafray if you want.

I have not yet used Blender, but from what I have learned, there is a "BURP" rendering farm.

I have access to a render farm, but that's cool to see that they are doing that.

I've done several things using blender, here are some screen shots
However nowadays I'm not using blender anymore. It's fun, but it takes way too much time. I think I already forgot the keyboard shortcuts anyway



The duck is fully rigged, including face controls

This was for an animation of a crack in ice (like Ice Age) the camera would follow the crack getting bigger and further, and then at the end there would be a blender logo or something. Final rendering & compositing took about 12hrs I think due to motion blur
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