A random bald technical artist from Unity shows off the new particle animation features in rev 3.5.
Terrible presentation, but super drool-worthy enhancements to the system.
Visichunk: aggregates of visual input
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Unite11 in San Francisco
Watching the unity 3d roadmap keynote this morning, great new features and some good feedback from the audience.
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Hanna Movie Review – Excellent
Kenna and I just went and saw Hanna – I think there’s going to be mixed reviews.
People who wanted another American remake of La Femme Nakita (1993 - Point of No Return) will be disappointed. Fans of the 1998 Run Lola Run will be stoked. The pacing is fluid and slow with jerks of intense and sometimes surreal action. The sound track totally makes this movie. Chemical Brothers just rock it.
If I could teach my daughters one thing before they leave home, it would be to have the ability to snap a mans neck with their bare hands.
I give it an artsy 8.5
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Stasis
Excellent (and NSFW) indie sci-fi film. Pretty violent, so maybe not for the kiddies.
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Barnacle Nauplius
Barnacles are strange little critters. The grow from this thing to another stage that looks nothing like this and eventually cement their heads to a rock and kick at the water for food for the rest of their lives.
This is today’s progress – modeled it in Silo3D and then into Maya for texture mapping coordinates. Mudbox is next for painting the textures and then back into Maya for rigging and animation. I’m thinking of recording a start-to-finish screen cap of one of these guys from drawing it out on paper to the final character in Unity3d.
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Progress
Wow.
My programmer Paul has totally kicked ass on the materials and shaders and I figured out how to get complex skinned animations into Unity today.
This is the result of our efforts so far:
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Sardinops Sagax in Unity 3D
Update:
Here’s a realtime version – still working on the shaders and culling.
Finished the textures and bump mapping and now working with Programmer Paul on the shaders. Transparency in Unity is going to be interesting… Can I have per-pixel transparency? Please?
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Plankton Body Shapes
Wow. With a post title like that, who KNOWS what’s gonna happen. Whoo!
Here’s 9 of the ten plankton species we’ll be displaying this summer. These are simplified body shapes to get a feel for where they go – how they move…
This critter becomes a Barnacle eventually:
This is what the evil “Plankton” character in Spongebob came from.
Responsible for many “Red Tides” that get you (and marine mammals) sick, but also a big producer of Oxygen (yay oxygen!)
I believe (Cayla correct me if I’m wrong) that the GI’s in WWII in the Pacific used to smear these all over things to make them glow so the enemy forces wouldn’t see the bright lights of their lanterns.
Micro Snail. Soon to be Macro.
Another moving plant:
More plants that move and wriggle:
Yes. Fish egg.
Crabby.
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Fish Eggs!
Very rough sketch of fish eggs with larvae inside. The shaders on this one are going to be a challenge…
