Aug
23

Peach Workshop FuzzCam

Posted in Random Fluff by andy

For your entertainment we installed a small temporary webcam in the Blender Institute. We’re not currently working in front of the computers the whole time, there’re lots of discussions and meetings going on. But maybe if you look close you can see a few familiar faces popping up!

FuzzCast

Aug
21

Peach workshop started

Posted in Production by Ton

Peach team: Andy, Lyubomir, Enrico, Sacha, Nathan, Brecht

The five Peach artists and one of the developers have arrived in Amsterdam for a week of preproduction work in Amsterdam. (We’re almost complete, only Campbell still is crock hunting in Northern Australia!). In this picture you can see Andy, Lyubomir, Enrico, Sacha, Nathan and Brecht discussing story concept drawings. Also check the media gallery for more shots of the team. If you watch closely you can even notice already where our concept is heading at…

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Aug
05

Magic Mandcandy – Can You Finish It?

Posted in Random Fluff by Nathan

Hey everyone.

Magic Mancandy I’ve done a little animation test using Bassam’s Mancandy rig. This is part of a little experiment for community participation (more on that in a second).

Click the the image to view the animation.

You will probably notice a couple of things about it:

  1. It’s a cheap rip-off of this Pixar animation.
  2. It’s stiff and lacks life, sometimes even pausing completely.

Let us ignore the first point for the sake of my reputation, and simply focus on the second.

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Aug
01

Peach DVD pre-sale campaign started!

Posted in Production by Ton

Peach DVD (mockup)As for the previous Open Movie, we depend on your help to be able to realize this project! You can do that by purchasing the DVD edition of Peach in advance. Our target is to get at least 1000 DVDs sold before the start of the project, october 1st.

 

Everyone who orders and pays the DVD before october 1st will get a discount and his/her name credited in the movie credit roll!

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Jul
28

Blender Institute tour

Posted in Blender Institute, Production by Ton

click to view videoHere’s a quick tour in the very cool office where we’ll make the Peach Open Movie. Most of it is undecorated and unfurnished still. But, we keep that wallpaper!

Jul
27

Project Peach blog starts

Posted in Production by Ton

Hi everyone!

And here’s the start of the official portal for project Peach (Furry & Funny), where we will update everyone about our progress, discuss ideas, ask for feedback, and so on.
Information about how to cooperate online will be added here too, but probably not until after the pre-production workshop end of august.
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