Live puppets in a 3D Universe

I had the enormous privilage to speak at the Blender Conference in Amsterdam!

I was talking about the latest large project I’ve been working on together with a team from Ireland, building a full virtual 3D set for a “late night” comedy show for puppets, going through the christmas message.

It was great fun, a lot of work, and a really cool project to be part of.

Some of the 3D stuff was pretty complex to work on, and so it was interesting to show off some of how we were doing the compositing and working with the puppets and greenscreens & everything.

Neon Tutorial for Blender / Cycles

For my current blender project (‘The Night Show’) I needed to create a neon sign. It took a while for me to figure out how to create reasonable looking neon in cycles that didn’t take years to render cleanly. This is the method that I came up with.