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BibleAnimations

January 20, 2016
Good day everyone!

Wow, almost a month since I last posted here! :D

This is gonna be a post that encourages you to go and check out the Bible Animations website GOD had me make a short while ago - and I mean like very short while ago, haha. I don't know how far I'll get in the making of these videos, but I'm being really honest when I say I want to do the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation and do it well. That will take time and a lot of effort and if you think about it, not gonna happen unless GOD is in it to do the whole thing, hahaha.

Just as a taste, here is a render from this morning's progress:

Outside of the palace of 100 columns - and yes, inside there are 100 columns, haha.

This render is from a WIP area where the king's palace was. The place is called Persepolis and I have no idea why it's called that, so whatever, hahaha. Anywho, the palace that you see closest to the camera, is the closest to being done atm and the walls were not fun to do, tbh, because they are extremely intricate! Not so much in design, but really odd corners. So much so that it was tempting to leave it kinda off this morning when I saw a problem, hahaha. You would not have noticed it, but GOD knew and I knew, and HE expects excellence, so guess what had to be fixed, hahaha. It was quick and painless, thankfully! :D HIS will truly is pure, pleasurable and perfect - stick with it!

Anyhow, I want you to go check out the site, by going here:
http://bibleanimations.yolasite.com/

You'll find a watch section, which will have active links for books with stuff. The only catch is that Esther only has a place holder at this point, because I'm working with GOD on it, hahaha.

I hope the current Genesis 1 animation is a blessing to you and the upcoming Esther 6 one too! :D
 

Motion Blur

January 5, 2016
Hey all!

I feel lead to talk to you guys about Motion Blur. Most of you know what it is, so I don't have to go into that, but in Blender there are a few ways of doing this, so I want to tell you what I do, why I do it and what I believe GOD has shown me is the best for, at least, 2D Work that you want to add motion blur to.

In Blender, you know we have three options for rendering and they all have motion blur options:
> Blender Render
   - Sampled Motion blur (takes forever, so not even remotely ...
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Advanced Cycles Toon Shading

December 28, 2015
Hey all!

Last week, GOD had me on Cycles toon shading. I tell you, I was looking for a reason to use Cycles for the sake of faster renders. I have a huge project I want to complete and crunching the render numbers do not look promising, hahaha, that is, apart from a render farm, but that's not an option atm.

Anyway, I've found that despite all the turn offs and corners cut in Cycles, Blender Render, at least on my PC, is still faster on CPU than Cycles is on GPU and I can get a more complex res...
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Faster testing when compositing

December 22, 2015
Hey all!

GOD challenged me to try something today and I'm glad I listened. Basically, HE challenged me to use OpenEXR to export a clean animation to, to work on compositing afterward. Let me explain why.

OpenEXR is a format released by Industrial Light and Magic a while ago (source). It is by no means a format I would recommend you export to on a regular basis, simply because I don't believe that was why it was made. I believe, because it was made as a High Dynamic Range format, it was, at leas...
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