I thought I’d quickly share a less conventional usage of some of Blender’s newer features that’s been sitting around on my desktop for a while now. A few months ago, it was (my girlfriend) Kat’s birthday and I thought I’d have some fun and make a simple pop-up card, rather than just buying one. Of course after thinking about it for a little while, my curiosity got the better of me and I set about to make it in CG.
It’s just a simple tree, based on the design of a ring of hers. I traced the shape, making sure it was kept in two flat halves, unwrapped it, and sculpted on a bark-like surface. Then, I added a plane with a dirt texture, added some grass, and set up some lights. From there it was just a matter of doing a full render bake to texture, leaving me with a grass image from above, and the unfolded, textured tree. I saved out the baked textures, printed them on to card, cut them out with a scalpel and wrote a message. I had no idea if it would work or not, but I think it came out all right in the end.
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CUTE! Did she like it? Did you get a kiss or … well .. you know, a hug or anything from it? How can you say…i guess it worked out! Come on, come on! ;-) That must have melted her to the bone. Surely it did.
-Chris
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best popup card i’ve ever seen.
you are so cute.
.b
Really nice! =)
A great usage of the new tools. And it looks nice. Did she like it?
If your gf did like it, can you post the files so that we can do the same thing for our gfs, but pretend that it was our own idea? :)
Mal
lovely, i like the idea. i must try it too.
now more complex forest would be cool too :)
Pop-up books are pretty cool. You should see the new ABCD pop-up by Marion Bataille. Whoa!
Your design work here makes me wonder about the facility of using Blender to design and test/animate very complicated pop-ups. Then, as you did: print; cut; and build.