Project Gold Premiere
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- 7 November
- 2 min read
The Blender Studio team is proud to release Project Gold, a technical showcase focused on stylized rendering, along with an add-on designed exclusively to achieve a painterly look.
A workshop on using the add-on, along with all characters, environments, and other production files, is available by subscribing to the Blender Studio website.
With your Blender Studio subscription, you’re helping the team develop projects like Project Gold, pushing Blender’s limits, contributing to its stability by reporting issues, and sharing production knowledge as open content.
The Brushstroke Tools add-on
Originally developed during the production of Project Gold, the brushstroke tools are a set of Geometry Nodes-based tools useful for creating a variety of stylized looks in asset production. Available as an add-on, these tools provide a convenient interface for creating, managing, and editing layers of 3D brushstrokes generated procedurally.
Get the Brushstroke Tools add-on on the Blender Extensions platform.
More information about this technique is described in the published paper Creating Tools for Stylized Design Workflows, and in the Procedural Oil Painting presentation at Blender Conference 2024.
The Stylized Rendering Workshop
Join Simon Thommes –lead artist at Blender Studio, and the main developer of the brushstroke tech– in the Stylized Rendering with Brushstrokes workshop, where he provides a deep overview of the tools, with tips, tricks and practical examples on how to use them.
About the project
Originally begun as a short film directed by Jericca Cleland, the project’s production was later refocused to a showcase for the new tools and technologies developed to achieve the sophisticated painterly look that makes the film so unique. Jericca is still working on the full short, and with her team, she will be able to take full advantage of the now more mature production tools to complete it. The collaboration has been beneficial to both the film’s creative and look development process and valuable to Blender’s evolution in tools for stylized image production. We fully support Jericca’s creative vision and wish her the best as she continues the project!
Watch the live pre-premiere party and Q&A with the team on YouTube.
9 comments
I look forward to seeing Jericca's vision, and really appreciate the tools and assets that everyone at Blender works so hard to share with the world.
I've being trying to push this stylized panterly style into my personal project MARIACHI RONIN, where 3d and 2d collide into this beautiful hybrid technique KUDOS FOR ALL THE TEAM
Love the art tech demo!!! You guys defenitely need to finish the narrative
Super cool. This is a very unique style and so far the most groundbreaking Blender Studio project, I think. This style even lends itself very much to Comic production, I think. Not just animation (despite being more impressive in motion).
Are the retopology tools also going to be made available on the Extensions Plattform, eventually? :)
WOW! Just WOW! If this is the kind of thing that my money helps with I'm so glad that even though I rarely login that I've kept my subscription. I'm already looking forward to the full short film. The artist wannabe in me is so inspired right now. Thank you.
This is so amazing! I love it! the tools is a sold technical marvel! I wonder if its possible to migrate via USD or other to Urneal engine? I could be amazing to be able to create USD sets with this feeling and look and then taske it into Unreal Engine. Quite new to blender but not to Unreal so I have no idea if this is possible? Bravo again!!! And well done on the tool.
Blown away by the painted style that's been achieved. It's great to see an aesthetic support a narrative so strongly, I'm amazed by what the brushstrokes addon have made possible. Project Gold have resonated with me on multiple layers, thank you all for this. On a side note, It's boosting me to complete my own addon.
Super glad to finally see how everything came together and having lots of resources to explore and learn from. Also great to hear that Jericca is continuing the short film, I'd love to see the whole story unfold one day
@KSDN Thank you for the kind words and encouragement! 😊
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