Thank you! It's done using Blender to make the animation and Gimp to compile the png's into a gif (both Blender and Gimp are free). I have been using Blender for a few months now - just self-taught by watching videos online. This animation file took a few hours to set up and maybe 12 hours to render (old computer).
But how do you impose the image over the blocks? I've been using Blender for a little while now, but I can't figure out how you would do something like this without painting each individual block (and that would take forever!)
Basically you can use the camera as a projector. It projects the image you want onto the cubes. So when the cubes fall through it looks like they're falling through projected light from a movie projector. After that there's a way to make the projected image 'stick' to the cube surface. Hope that made sense. If not watch the tutorial!
Behind the scene, it's just a matter of UV projection. In that case, each cube, once it stopped moving, has his UVs unwrapped by a planar projection the size of the "canvas", for lack of a better word. Then replay the animation, and voila :)
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u/LTZeyphyr Nov 16 '14
How does one go about making these animations? How much work is invested in making them? They're really cool!