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NOTE: GIF Test. May not work initially.

Hey, everyone. I'm currently taking different college multimedia courses this year; chief among them involve the beloved program, Blender. What I got now is a working procedure to convert a Spore creature to Collada format, convert it to OBJ format for Blender, recolor and animate, and finally convert to GIF format.

For this GIF, I have a work-in-progress that I like to call a Dream Eater, a sort of polar opposite of my other idea, the Dream Catcher. Both fan-based creations are loosely based on the web comic "Dreamkeepers." I wanted to make Dream Eaters a sort of supernatural entities stuck between the Dreamkeeper world's plane and a spiritual plane of existence. The resulting image makes them theoretically solid in form yet transparent, energetically charged, and ghostly. I wanted to make it just as unsettling and intimidating as the Nightmares but more distinct in appearance and tactics.

Hopefully after the semester, I will learn enough Blender basics to re-rig the models from scratch. Hopefully. Stay tuned for more college projects.

Update

Well. After some more digging, I have come to the conclusion that the one reliable way to fix my texture issue with Blender is using version 2.56 beta. Yeaaahh. Sort of.

As far as I could tell, 2.56 beta maps the textures correctly on SOME of my creations; the others are less accurate. What I don't get is the fact that, after I save the model and the base texture on the beta, the data carries over to version 2.68 with little issues. Even though when I tried to map the same texture on 2.68 it does not map correctly, period. Shrugging my shoulders here.

All that aside, I manage to properly skin my model here; it's texture's mapping is mostly correct, I guess. Also got the lighting to work. I did boost the size and resolution of the GIF file. Maybe too much for the internet to handle. Sorry.

Dream Eater
© 2015 Tyroth-Dartvyn aka. ZaRyume Mukeiyu Vkahryx

Dreamkeepers
© David & Liz Lillie

Spore --> in-game creature model
© 2009 Electronic Arts Inc. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Program(s) used:

Blender™ v2.56 beta; v2.68 --> lighting, material & texture tweaks, rendering
© 2015 Blender Foundation

GIMP v2.8 --> GIF animating
© 2015 The GIMP Team

Autodesk FBX Converter 2013 --> Collada-to-Object file conversion
© 2015 Autodesk Inc. All rights reserved.

Description
NOTE: GIF Test. May not work initially.

Hey, everyone. I'm currently taking different college multimedia courses this year; chief among them involve the beloved program, Blender. What I got now is a working procedure to convert a Spore creature to Collada format, convert it to OBJ format for Blender, recolor and animate, and finally convert to GIF format.

For this GIF, I have a work-in-progress that I like to call a Dream Eater, a sort of polar opposite of my other idea, the Dream Catcher. Both fan-based creations are loosely based on the web comic "Dreamkeepers." I wanted to make Dream Eaters a sort of supernatural entities stuck between the Dreamkeeper world's plane and a spiritual plane of existence. The resulting image makes them theoretically solid in form yet transparent, energetically charged, and ghostly. I wanted to make it just as unsettling and intimidating as the Nightmares but more distinct in appearance and tactics.

Hopefully after the semester, I will learn enough Blender basics to re-rig the models from scratch. Hopefully. Stay tuned for more college projects.

Update

Well. After some more digging, I have come to the conclusion that the one reliable way to fix my texture issue with Blender is using version 2.56 beta. Yeaaahh. Sort of.

As far as I could tell, 2.56 beta maps the textures correctly on SOME of my creations; the others are less accurate. What I don't get is the fact that, after I save the model and the base texture on the beta, the data carries over to version 2.68 with little issues. Even though when I tried to map the same texture on 2.68 it does not map correctly, period. Shrugging my shoulders here.

All that aside, I manage to properly skin my model here; it's texture's mapping is mostly correct, I guess. Also got the lighting to work. I did boost the size and resolution of the GIF file. Maybe too much for the internet to handle. Sorry.

Dream Eater
© 2015 Tyroth-Dartvyn aka. ZaRyume Mukeiyu Vkahryx

Dreamkeepers
© David & Liz Lillie

Spore --> in-game creature model
© 2009 Electronic Arts Inc. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Program(s) used:

Blender™ v2.56 beta; v2.68 --> lighting, material & texture tweaks, rendering
© 2015 Blender Foundation

GIMP v2.8 --> GIF animating
© 2015 The GIMP Team

Autodesk FBX Converter 2013 --> Collada-to-Object file conversion
© 2015 Autodesk Inc. All rights reserved.