Sign In
Sign in
English

FrontBanners13020402.jpg

February 4, 2013, 8:00 AM

by B. N. Reporter

In addition to the Render of the Week Award, www.BlenderNews.org is featuring regular series, showcasing quality product vidz realized in Blender, 
selected from published artworks for (a) given week(s).  If you would like to have your works featured in this series, please submit your professional-quality product viz to 
www.blenderartist.org or to the Member's Gallery of this site, or Contact Us to show where your work is available on the internet.
This week, www.BlenderNews.org is happy to feature an interview with Alexandre Faiad--a Blender artist especially noted for fluid simulation.
- Editor in Chief 

How did you come to know 3D Graphics, all by yourself? Or have you ever received any official training?
How did I learn? By myself, like most people in our field, I guess. Tutorials and, in my case, a lot of playing with the tools.

How were you introduced to Blender?
I met Blender because of chocolate, actually. I was trying without hope to do chocolate in Realflow, and a friend of mine told me about the simulator in Blender. In some minutes, we did what I could not in days with Realflow. And then I learned that Autodesk could not buy Blender. After trying to quit 3ds Max to learn XSI just to see Autodesk buying it, I decide to dedicate myself to Blender. 

Could you tell us of some of your most memorable commercial projects?
I only worked for about one year in a full-CGI studio. So I don't have many commercial works. Besides the chocolate, the one I liked the most was an animation of a logo (tim festival, a festival here in Brasil) with Realflow. It was my beginning with fluids but the concept of the water with the music and the animated logo that the agency gave us was really cool. Having a good concept to work on is really great.

Have you ever worked on any food visualization or any VFX shots as part of your commercial project involving fluid simulation?
Mostly dental advertisement in that studio I worked. Some of them I used blender, like a toothpaste on the toothbrush or a splash.

What new feature would you like to see in Blender to make your work easier?
A lot of features! Specially more integration, but I don't see that happening. Blender looks like a lot of software put together without unity sometimes. The fluid simulator for instance, was put there by its creator and forgotten, and I guess not many people have the ability to change it. So, it just got worse nowadays and I still have to use 2.49 to simulate. It does not have communication to nearly anything elsewhere in Blender.

But lately, one of the simple things I really would like to see implemented was some easier way (drag and drop, who knows?) of changing the order of modifiers. It is a huge pain when you have many of them to just press that little buttons to make them go up or down.

Thank you very much, Alexandre, for responding to this interview. And we look forward to your future projects.

Alexandre Faiad's Fluid Simulations
 

 


Contact Info.:

Related Links:

Views :
44478
Registered Date :
2013.02.05
01:26:16 (*.27.128.26)
Trackback :
http://blendernews.org/xe/3478/f2c/trackback
Article URL :
http://blendernews.org/xe/3478
List of Articles
Subject Date Views
Blender Retrospectives 2020 Blender Retrospective Feb 20, 2021 211015
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 Worthy of Your Note - for Animation & VFX file Jan 25, 2020 563120
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 Worthy of Your Note - for CG, Games & Viz file Jan 25, 2020 426223
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 file Jan 25, 2020 431967
Tutorials Top 15 Highest-Rated Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2019 file Jan 25, 2020 375868
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 for Blender 2.8 file Jan 23, 2019 345001
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 Worthy of Your Note - for CG, Games & Viz file Jan 23, 2019 684303
Tutorials Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 Worthy of Your Note - for Animation & VFX file Jan 23, 2019 408389
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2018 file Jan 23, 2019 344913
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2018: Winners Annouced file Jan 02, 2019 381651
Blender Retrospectives 2018 Blender Retrospective file Jan 02, 2019 376059
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2017 file Jan 09, 2018 968989
Blender Retrospectives 2017 Blender Retrospective file Jan 01, 2018 696773
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2017: Winners Annouced file Dec 26, 2017 550742
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials (Videos) Released in 2016 file Jan 16, 2017 765400
Blender Retrospectives 2016 Blender Retrospective file Dec 29, 2016 1060299
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2015: Seven Winners Annouced file Jan 20, 2016 790558
Blender Retrospectives 2015 Blender Retrospective file Jan 12, 2016 762269
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2015 file Jun 26, 2015 805613
Render of the Year Render of the Year Awards 2014: Five Winners Annouced file Jan 02, 2015 813839
Tutorials Top 12 Free Online Blender Tutorials Released in 2014 file Dec 11, 2014 852707
Product Visualization PRODUCT VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of November 21, 2016 file Nov 22, 2016 26210
Suzanne Awards 2016 Suzanne Awards: The Winners & Nominees Are ... file Nov 15, 2016 23557
Render of the Week 'Care for The Things You Love' by Daniel Vesterbæk Jensen - the Winner of the Week of November 7, 2016 file Nov 08, 2016 31163
Architectural Visualization ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of November 7, 2016 file Nov 08, 2016 28291
Render of the Week 'Tannhauser Gate' Manuel Grad - the Winner of the Week of October 31, 2016 file Nov 01, 2016 32032
Product Visualization PRODUCT VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of October 31, 2016 file Nov 01, 2016 26472
Architectural Visualization ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of October 24, 2016 file Oct 23, 2016 27577
Render of the Week 'Nature in Glass' by Alexandre Lambertini - the Winner of the Week of October 24, 2016 file Oct 23, 2016 30593
Render of the Week 'The Way of the Voice' by Mason Menzies - the Winner of the Week of October 17, 2016 file Oct 18, 2016 28972
Product Visualization PRODUCT VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of October 18, 2016 file Oct 18, 2016 26808
Render of the Week 'Air-Bus' by Derek Leung - the Winner of the Week of October 10, 2016 file Oct 12, 2016 29001
Architectural Visualization ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of October 10, 2016 file Oct 11, 2016 26240
Product Visualization PRODUCT VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of October 3, 2016 file Oct 05, 2016 26430
Render of the Week 'Barrel Riders' by Guilherme Henrique - the Winner of the Week of October 3, 2016 file Oct 05, 2016 30531
Architectural Visualization ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of September 26, 2016 file Sep 28, 2016 26549
Render of the Week 'IS-2 1944 Heavy Tank' by Piotr Bieryt - the Winner of the Week of September 26, 2016 file Sep 28, 2016 34495
Render of the Week 'The Courtyard' by Guilherme Henrique - Winner for the Week of September 19, 2016 file Sep 21, 2016 31422
Product Visualization PRODUCT VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of September 19, 2016 file Sep 21, 2016 29771
Architectural Visualization ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION IN BLENDER for the week of September 12, 2016 file Sep 14, 2016 27820
Render of the Week 'BMW 4 Series - M Sport' by Jack Davies - the Winner of the Week of September 12, 2016 file Sep 13, 2016 30245