[HN Gopher] Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year
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Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year
Author : countrymile
Score : 318 points
Date : 2023-11-15 20:42 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (younganimator.uk)
| nightpool wrote:
| Why does the video get cropped when you activate full-screen? Is
| this something that Chrome does automatically, or something in
| the CSS of the website? https://imgur.com/a/bZdZ2sl
| Ambroos wrote:
| It's an inline object-fit: cover set explicitly by the
| website's custom JS. I can't figure out a good reason to do
| this either.
|
| A quick document.querySelector('#player').style = '' in console
| allows proper fullscreen viewing.
| rubyn00bie wrote:
| In Firefox it behaves strangely too. I noticed if you pop out
| the video player with the picture-in-picture mode it looks
| correct.
| Blaiz0r wrote:
| This is a love letter to Ian Hubert for sure, but well done.
| CamperBob2 wrote:
| I think you misspelled "Ridley Scott," but... yeah.
| Obscurity4340 wrote:
| Will you two just kiss and makeup, pleeze?
| jonchurch_ wrote:
| Im not a 3d artist, but I still find Ian Hubert's blender
| tutorials[1] very cool to watch.
|
| He comes off as an artist who immensely enjoys their craft. I
| have also really enjoyed his Dynamo Dream series [2] which are
| a labor of love for him. He's only released like 3 episodes
| over several years, but hey labor of love.
|
| Ian was also chosen as the director of Tears of Steel (2012)
| which is one of the Blender Open Movies [3] the foundation
| produces. You might not recognize that film, but many of you
| have heard of at least one Blender Open Movie, Big Buck Bunny!
| A big nod (IMO) from the Blender foundation that he represents
| the spirit of the project and community, as well as has the
| skills to oversee a project meant to demonstrate Blender's
| capabilities.
|
| These Open Movies are projects that HN can likely appreciate,
| as they are created to showcase and help push capabilities of
| the open source Blender software, are licensed under Creative
| Commons, and their assets are provided to the community for
| free.
|
| (This comment is a love letter to Ian Hubert)
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| [1] https://www.youtube.com/@IanHubert2
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| [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsGZ_2RuJ2A
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| [3] https://studio.blender.org/films/
| reactordev wrote:
| I was going to say "Someone was studying Ian Hubert's work".
| Glad I wasn't the only one that got those vibes.
| bendoidic wrote:
| New title: 16yo watched ALL the Ian Hubert tutorials
|
| But who can blame them? Ian's tutorials are some of the most
| entertaining videos out there, especially his lazy tutorial
| series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjnyapZ_P-g
| armchairhacker wrote:
| How much of these assets did he make himself?
|
| Regardless this is extremely impressive. There's nothing to
| distinguish this from something made by a group of professionals
| with infinite time and resources.
| quadrature wrote:
| They likely created a large portion of these assets themselves.
| There might be some kitbashing but the amount of detail here is
| certainly doable for a motivated 16 yr old.
|
| Theres a lot of creative ways to add details using scans,
| texture projection and scattering.
| jojobas wrote:
| Or, you know, coding.
| reactordev wrote:
| Hard surface modeling in blender is pretty easy if you go the
| kit bash route. You still have to have some concept of _what_
| you 're building. You also still need environments, rigging,
| lighting, camera work, compositing, and post.
| mocamoca wrote:
| I also wonder about the sound design which is very well done,
| but seems to be a very different field than 3D?
| gardenhedge wrote:
| That is honestly amazing. Congrats to the winner.
| mrtksn wrote:
| Here are the nominees but unfortunately the videos don't seem
| available: https://younganimator.uk/nominees
| countrymile wrote:
| Other winners are here: https://younganimator.uk/winners
| Ambroos wrote:
| You can cheat with URLs to watch all of them. Grab the ID from
| the gif thumbnail URL, throw it in something with HLS stream
| support with this URL: https://stream.mux.com/<id>.m3u8 (Safari
| and iOS browsers work, on Windows and Android you might need to
| get creative with something like VLC).
| BorisTheBrave wrote:
| Impressive stuff. I wonder if he's inspired by Ian Hubert's work?
| mkaic wrote:
| Almost certainly. As a longtime member of Ian's Patreon, I
| recognize more than a few specific techniques being used here
| that he's posted tutorials for on it. Not that the inspiration
| takes away at all from the final product! The fact that a 16yo
| made this would be insanely cool even if it was a shot-for-shot
| remake of an existing movie scene, so any originality that it
| has beyond that only makes it more cool!
| quadrature wrote:
| Agreed, It's really impressive how well they nailed the
| atmosphere of Ian Hubert's work.
| HatchedLake721 wrote:
| Wow! Reminded me of Cyberpunk 2077
| DonHopkins wrote:
| Robotic + Organic but tasty instead of gross.
| tunnuz wrote:
| This looks insane!
| owenpalmer wrote:
| Ian Hubert vibes
| DonHopkins wrote:
| Absolutely, which is an enormous well deserved complement! He
| makes it seem so easy, but he's got a ridiculous amount of
| skill. He's on his way to giving mind blowing presentations at
| Blendercon too.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPWKecazgM
| imranq wrote:
| Super cool! I like the fluid movement with the robot
| wslh wrote:
| I would love to see a video with the production flow.
| adiabat wrote:
| It's very good in the field of young people making amazing things
| in Blender, but IMO not the best.
|
| That would be Impetus[1]
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| [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJeEhfhyO5Q
| EB66 wrote:
| Impetus is certainly more artistic and thought-provoking, but
| is there anything that makes Impetus a greater technical
| achievement than Street Food? From my (very) non-expert
| perspective, Street Food seems much more technically
| impressive.
| yellow_lead wrote:
| The fisherman scene in that film looks a lot like Guilin,
| China. Could be based on Vietnam also.
| anon115 wrote:
| IMO the best street food takes the win
| richardw wrote:
| [delayed]
| ushakov wrote:
| I'm at loss of words
| drumhead wrote:
| Honestly better work than I've seen in a lot of films and tv
| shows. He's got a lot of talent.
| gobins wrote:
| Wow! Very cyberpunk. Is that name a pseudonym?
| __fst__ wrote:
| Wow, that looks astonishingly real.
| tsuru wrote:
| I'm really craving dango now. Well done.
| larodi wrote:
| I'm starting to like 3Ds again with these kids' productions. <3
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