Office Hours: more street location stuff

Two new images from Office Hours, the film directed by Shane Sheils & Paula Sheils and produced by Dwarfed Films.
Both are of the same street scene, except the bottom image features a couple of cars.
Click on the images to view the images larger. Pictures are at 1/2 scale.

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Blender 2.45 available for download

As visitors to www.DWARFEDFILMS.blogspot.com will no doubt be well aware, we really like Blender 3D and use it every day.

Put simply, Blender is THE essential filmmaking software product. And its FREE!

Well they've released the latest update of the program - called Blender 2.45 - and it's available for download here

This version doesn't feature any new features, just mainly bug fixes. I think Blender 2.5 should have a lot more extras and possibly a complete revamp of the program design. but then again maybe not. Who knows, we'll just have to wait and see.
As it is Blender is a great tool for animation, particle effects and also features one of the best and fastest audio/video editors we've yet come across. And all for a free 8mb download!
So go download Blender here and give it a try!

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Office Hours blogsite

Ok, we've finally got around to setting up a separate blog for Office Hours.

It can be found at www.officehoursfilm.blogspot.com

It's difficult to find time to write up new stuff and add images on this blog so I don't know how we'll manage another blog too - but lets see how it goes!

Oh, and heres a new pic from the film.

Office Hours: new location images

Here are two new images from Office Hours. They show a street scene from an exterior location in the film. It's kinda hard to see - as the images are pretty small - but the walls are covered with lots of graffitti and crap to give them a "dirty" look.

To be honest you'll probably only be able to make out the large "ping-pong" graffitti on one of the walls in these particular pictures (why ping-pong?Well why not! Actually it's a link to a live action film we once made called "The Darkside". In the opening sequence of that movie the lead actress walks down a dirty, deserted street and the word's "hand-ball" are scrawled on the walls which was pretty strange.)

Click on either image to view them larger (these are probably 1/4 scale of final renders)

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Office Hours: early animation test

Here is a dodgy looking bit of footage from Office Hours.
It shows a ultra low-resolution footage of a female walk cycle. Some of it looks bizarre, like the random shot of her head and houth opening and closing. Remember this is just test footage to check that no body parts are going in strange palces r other mad vertex problems!
The video looks weird and distorted and black and white because of some strange codec thing, but you can make out whats going on!
Enjoy

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