Thilakanathan Studios Blog moved to ThilakanathanStudios.com

Once again, my blog has migrated! The blog now lives at http://thilakanathanstudios.com! The main reason was that I felt I needed a more professional look to my site if I'm to do this long-term. Blogger is great and its interface was very fun to work with, but the only problem I felt was that it wasn't flexible enough. Also, I found the interface didn't always look good with Blogger. Sometimes my thumbnails looked stretched, other times it just...

How I Started Making Animated Short Films! PART 2

Once I entered Uni, I was itching to go back and fulfill my dream of making an animated film. I then did proper research. After reading many software reviews and the features it contained, I decided to settle with the software I promised I would never look at again... Blender! I saw some user images and was awestruck with the level of quality that was able to be produced with free software. I could never afford 1000 bucks for those Maya, 3DS max,...

How I Started Making Animated Short Films! PART 1

All throughout my childhood I really enjoyed watching animated films and I guess it hasn’t really stopped. It started with Toy Story, then it was Finding Nemo and even now, as a fully grown adult, Avatar. There’s something about animated films that I loved in comparison to live action films. It might be the fact that we are able to create our own parallel universe and script our own events the way we want it. There was a time, perhaps during my...

Monkaa - Comedy Animated Open Movie

Here is an animated short film by Weybec Studio and Blender Institute called "Monkaa". Everything here was made using only free software such as Blender and GIMP. A very well made comedy animated film. You can also download all the project files and tutorials on cloud.blender.org! Produced by: Weybec Released by Blender Institute, in Blender Cloud and the blender.org e-store http://www.weybec.com http://cloud.blender.o...

Free Environments For Your Next Film!

Hey Blender users! Your next animated feel-good short film can be much easier! Here are some scenes you can use for free in your own Blender projects! Whether it be games, movies, 3D artwork, visualisation, YouTube videos or anything else, you are FREE to use it in any way you wish. The licence is CC-BY meaning you're free to use it even for commercial purposes as long as you credit me anywhere in your project. I created these environments...

What "Uyir" is all about!

"Uyir" will be my 4th independently made animated short film after "Theevan", "Vetri" and "Tripping". The main goal of this short film will be to improve on my previous flaws, character animation and story. I think I might have actually developed a good story but whether the screenplay will live upto it is another story altogether. If it pulls off, I'm a little bit confident that this story will be far better than any of my...

Quick Tip: Cloth Simulation in 5 minutes!

In this Quick Tip post, I'll show how to quickly set up cloth simulation so that you can use Blender to create cool-looking cloth animation. Cloth animation can enhance the realism of your characters and create a more lively scene. Not only for characters, but any object made out of cloth can benefit from cloth movement, such as flags, tablecloth, paper and so on. Step 1: To set up a cloth simulation in Blender, start out with a...