William Butler Yeats

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Monday, February 18, 2008

Class Aid #1: Blender

On March, 24, 2006, after approximately 8 months of work, some of the best Blender artists collaborated to create a short film (~11 minutes) solely using Blender as their rendering tool. This short movie truly demonstrates what is capable of the freeware rendering tools which are available to the common person. Of course, the rendering required a 2.1 teraflop Apple Xserve G5-supercomputing cluster and each frame required on average 2.8 gigabytes of memory--a feat well outside the means of the common person. Yet, it remains an example of the infinite potential with which normal applications can produce phenomenal results.

1 comment:

forker girl said...

Indeed, forms of, variations of such attainments tend to make their way to a more generalized, simplified usefulness, allowing those without specialized knowledge to use applications for the purpose of making, for the purpose of expression without having to know how to develop the tools.

But tools become increasingly sophisticated, and this sophistication can encourage the overlapping of boundaries, which in turn can assist in the emergence of fused (to some degree, on some scale, for some duration of time), linked on some scale, for some duration of time), areas of focus and consideration --reconfigurations of intersections, including what becomes eligible for consideration as an intersection, emerge from the updated availability of generalized versions of toolsets.