Ciao mi chiamo Guido,
sono un giovane 3D artist che da grande vorrebbe fare l’animatore.
Da un paio di mesi sono entrato a far parte della SparkDE con l’obiettivo di trasformare la mia passione in un lavoro vero e proprio!
Francesco mi ha proposto di entrare nel team della terza edizione del trickle project come modeler/rigger ed animatore e devo dire che la sfida mi ha coinvolto parecchio!
Assieme ad altre quattro persone: Accursio, Claudia, Sarah e Tania per tutto il mese di luglio abbiamo preparato lo script ed il design del nuovo corto. Il progetto è particolarmete stimolante il concept è molto semplice ed efficace: un flyer attraversa le vite di quattro personaggi per evolvere la sua funzione da oggetto di comunicazione ad elemento naturale.

-> Continue reading ‘TRICKLE n.3 Il mio primo post’->

Hi everybody!
The short we are working on is almost finished.
We have to complete some animations, and refine lighting in few shots.
In these days, we will start rendering.
I (Gherardo) am actually working on an original music for ending titles and I’m also collecting audio files for the sound design.

I hope we could finish the whole project the next weeks -> Continue reading ‘News from “Eleven O’Clock”’->

Hi everybody!
The second session of Trickle Project is close to reaching its end…
But we are already thinking about the new session!!
In this post we will describe the kind of people we are looking for to create the new team
The following part of the post is in Italian. Below you will find also the English translation.

Un nuovo Trickle Project sta per cominciare!!

Siamo alla ricerca di tre giovani artisti per la realizzazione di un cortometraggio di animazione 3D.
Per realizzare il cortometraggio utilizzaremo tutti software free:
Blender per il 3D, GIMP per l’editing delle immagini ed Ardour per il sound design. -> Continue reading ‘Opening for new Trickle Project’->

The “Eleven o’clock” project is going on well.
We spent much time to organize some files (as we said in the preview posts the organization of files is fundamental!!) but now it’s time to render!
Mattia still working on animation. He had completed the 9th shot. All the shots are 22 so he still has a lot of work to do.

In the meanwhile we are rendering the completed shots.
So we can see what is wrong and what is right, and we have the time to the necessary corrections.
Here you can see a preview of first shot before and after shading and lighting (thanks to our shader Davide).

The 3D short of Trickle Project is going on very well.
The dead-line is incoming and we have a lot of things to do.

Lorenzo now is refining the last UV maps and textures remaining.
Davide, after completed the shading of the objects, is taking care of the lighting of the two environments shot by shot.
Least but non last, Mattia is working on the animation.
Here you can see the first two shots made by Mattia.
Tell us what do you think about it!!

These are the first images from the new short we are working at.

This is the main character of the story: -> Continue reading ‘Eleven o’clock …a preview!’->

Here we are again!!

As you may know all the Trickle Project are open source.
There are all the files we made to create the short “Hit & Eat”.
We invite everyone to download it and have fun creating new exciting stories!

-> SOURCE FILES OF “HIT & EAT” <-

Also we want to say a spacial thank you to KINO3D.COM for givin us the space to host our file.

You can also create you own DVD of “Hit and Eat” downloading the DVD cover

-> DVD Cover <-

The scene takes place in an ancient attic, full of scrapheap and dust.
In this setting a heroic robot will help a cuckoo bird to realize his dream: to be free.
In this picture, realized by Davide, you can see how the attic looks like and you can feel the mood of the story.

This is the way we decide to organize our work during the weeks.

We don’t know if it is the best plan for this kind of project, but it’s an attempt,
so the next time we’ll be able to manage the planification of the work in a better way.

The whole project takes 12 weeks but we consider only 10 weeks for completion.
The latest 2 week will be useful to correct hypothetical mistakes or to refine the result of the video.

Here we are, with a preview of the new Trickle Project.
There are just the first 15 seconds …who knows what will happen later??

We are thinking also to make some Blender videotutorial (but only in Italian language).

 

…So if you are curious stay tuned,
there are a lot of news about this project!!