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There oughta be a Blender plugin to animate growth

147 points by zdw 5y ago

zuj 5y ago
We need a npm style package manager for all the awesome blender plugins out there. There are couple of projects started by folks but we need something built into blender.
- UncleEntity 5y ago
  Pretty sure there’s been one built into blender for over a decade.
jtxt 5y ago
Thanks so much for sharing! I mostly got it to work and it may be useful for my current project!
high_byte 5y ago
I love blender and how extensible it is! beautiful work. also love your channel name! :)
ozten 5y ago
Great blog and YouTube channel[1]! So many great builds. Very inspiring. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/thereoughtabe/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/thereoughtabe/videos
xyproto 5y ago
Sweet! This ought to be perfect for anyone wanting to create a short intro video.
amelius 5y ago
I think I have a problem. On the one hand, I love how this looks and I would really like to learn how to use these tools and produce beautiful stuff. I think I even might be good at it. But on the other hand, it feels like a waste of my time to be producing graphical stuff, which in the end is only superficial. I'm torn!
- satori99 5y ago
  Creating art is rarely a waste of time, even if it never finds an audience.
  - amelius 5y ago
    This is 100% true, it's just that I can't get over the idea that since programming is more useful while creative at the same time it seems a better pastime than designing graphics.
    - adzm 5y ago
      Sounds like you might be interested in the best of both worlds - programming some graphics! Maybe check out things like shadertoy and libcinder -- I find these relaxing ways to program while also having creative graphical output.
      - morjom 5y ago
        I'm somewhat of a total noob in programming and I've glanced at shadertoy many times because it seems super cool but math seems to have a lot to do with it so I feel intimidated quite a bit. A friend linked me the bookofshaders but haven't touched it.
- Fnoord 5y ago
  If you have pleasure doing this, then the time is not wasted even if nobody ever sees your artwork except you.

147 points by zdw 5y ago

zuj 5y ago

We need a npm style package manager for all the awesome blender plugins out there. There are couple of projects started by folks but we need something built into blender.

UncleEntity 5y ago
Pretty sure there’s been one built into blender for over a decade.

jtxt 5y ago

Thanks so much for sharing! I mostly got it to work and it may be useful for my current project!

high_byte 5y ago

I love blender and how extensible it is! beautiful work. also love your channel name! :)

ozten 5y ago

Great blog and YouTube channel[1]! So many great builds. Very inspiring. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/thereoughtabe/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/thereoughtabe/videos

xyproto 5y ago

Sweet! This ought to be perfect for anyone wanting to create a short intro video.

amelius 5y ago

I think I have a problem. On the one hand, I love how this looks and I would really like to learn how to use these tools and produce beautiful stuff. I think I even might be good at it. But on the other hand, it feels like a waste of my time to be producing graphical stuff, which in the end is only superficial. I'm torn!

satori99 5y ago
Creating art is rarely a waste of time, even if it never finds an audience.
- amelius 5y ago
  This is 100% true, it's just that I can't get over the idea that since programming is more useful while creative at the same time it seems a better pastime than designing graphics.
  - adzm 5y ago
    Sounds like you might be interested in the best of both worlds - programming some graphics! Maybe check out things like shadertoy and libcinder -- I find these relaxing ways to program while also having creative graphical output.
    - morjom 5y ago
      I'm somewhat of a total noob in programming and I've glanced at shadertoy many times because it seems super cool but math seems to have a lot to do with it so I feel intimidated quite a bit. A friend linked me the bookofshaders but haven't touched it.
Fnoord 5y ago
If you have pleasure doing this, then the time is not wasted even if nobody ever sees your artwork except you.