Jet engine animation (Made with Blender)

Some Russian type jet engine. The animation presents how jet engine look inside and how it works. I made it with Blender 2.44 in 4 days (of course I didn't work all the time :-)). It's difficult to say how long the rendering process took exactly, but I remember that average time per frame with my computer (CPU-Celeron 1.2GHz, RAM-256MB) was 5 minutes, and to render the fragment of the animation including particles I had to use another one.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• jet
• engine
• animation
• 3d
• blender
• 2.44

[AgentJayZ]

Not bad... The compressor looks quite good, but the turbine is not right. You've made it look like a compressor; the blades are curved the wrong way, and you've put the stators behind the blades... like a compressor.

A turbine has stators in front of the blades.

Small detail... unless you really want to be accurate about how a jet engine looks inside and how it works.

If you made the sound with a blender, you did a great job.

Check out my engine test videos for real sounds.

[wisiel]

@AgentJayZ

You forgot to say that fuel instalation was... uhhhh... quite untypical. Yeah I know, I made a big mistake putting rotor blades before stator blades in the turbine, it's a little crappy machine, but I have seen much worse. I admit I should have made some more research before the work even if I didn't consider it as a part of degree dissertation at polytechnic.

[wisiel]

@AgentJayZ

As for the whole process, at that time I was like, "Hmmm, can I model a compressor blade with Blender?" I managed to do it quite well and at that moment I decided to build some jet engine from that element, and even an idea of modeling some real engine crossed my mind but soon after I realized that I didn't have any chance to do that because of poor hardware, no references and too low skils.

[wisiel]

@AgentJayZ

It would really be nice to be able to model and animate highly datailed jet engine but as you surely know any jet engine is so complicated machine that I would need some really good computer to render it. I hardly rendered this one thanks to a smart trick consisted in deactivating layers which comprised particular elements of the engine invisible to the camera at particular moment, and only one lamp attached to it.

[wisiel]

@AgentJayZ

That sound you can hear comes from a vacuum cleaner by Philips. I recorded it with microphone, edited with Audacity a bit and put it toghether with the animation I had made ealier. Luckily I had a vacuum cleaner with smoothly controllable suck power so I could easily imitate the sound of increasing power of the engine. Of course it could be done better but I'm quite proud of how it came out.

[hazardious]

@Cerebrectomy it's like a sparkplug in car. Fuel is mixed with the flowing air and ignited

[darius02koolguy]

like dude HOW?????did u do this?

[Cerebrectomy]

Still dont get it.What's the flamethrower things for?

[ImRaHorakhty]

This is a fantastic example of a 3D jet engine, I really like what you have done here with such a highly technical piece of kit. The detail of the engine parts is incredible. Have you a tutorial on this, I would very much appreciate if you let me know how to do it.

[makinamati]

Do cartoons instead of technical stufff! anyway nice work... + sound