Project Nion

'The Hickening' is another student project, I made together with 'achti' and 'piPPin'. It actually isn't very new, but it finally found its way to youtube. Our topic was 24 hours and we decided to make a movie about a guy who suffers 24 hours from hiccup. We never really made movies before, so it turned out a little amateurish. Nonetheless I think it's good for a laugh and I don't want to hold it back from you.

You can click on the image to get to the video. Enjoy!

I am a person who often drinks tea in the morning and I thought it would be great to have my own personal cup - a cup with the Project Nion logo on it. But before wasting money on printing on a cup, I wanted to know how this would look like. To cut a long story short: I made such a cup in Blender. And because I wanted to know how it would look like in reality, I used an external unbiased renderer: LuxRender.

I haven't had a lot experience with it. It was damn hard to get a good light setup with an unbiased renderer... just like in reality. I'm still not 100% satisfied with the outcome, but I think it is not bad... and I think I will buy myself such a cup :)

Do you like it?

I've made a small riddle. Do you think you are nerdy enough to solve it?

01101110011100100010111001110000
01110010011011110110101001100101
01100011011101000010110101101110
01101001011011110110111000101110
011011100110010101110100

Note: This is only the first challenge.

Update: In order to reach a bigger community, I've uploaded this riddle as a small animation on youtube.

Finally: here is the third episode of 'Nion's Blender Experiments'. I know I actually promised you growing grass and burning paper, but burning paper turned out to be too complex for explaining it in such a short period of time. Instead I talked about that shiny text effect, which you were able to see in my first demoreel. I was asked about that effect very often, so I thought it would be a good compromise. I even go a step further and will allow you to download the .blend file for the burning paper monkey: Link

You can watch all three episodes here: Link

And I would very much appreciate it, if you participate in the new poll and tell me what you think about the NBE series.
By the way: Thanks a lot for 500 subscriptions on my youtube channel!