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This tutorial by Frédéric van der Essen explains all the new hair features in the latest Blender releases: static particles, force fields, curve guides and vertex weight painting to determine hair length and density.
Dmancrosse has posted a very cool picture called 'Sign of the Juggernaught'. It is one of those images that you can stare at for a while, trying to discover new things and wondering about the story behind it.
Nico Hagen has posted two cool Blender wallpapers on his website. I quite like them as they are both very quiet and easy on the eye.
Do you remember Blender for the IPAQ? It was one of the projects we did at Not a Number, I guess to prove to the investors that mobile 3D was feasible. Amazingly, it worked and for a while it was good. Unfortunately, the IPAQ version was not part of the Open Source deal that the Blender Foundation struck with the investors so after the second bankruptcy it was no longer available.
Until now.
There are two new updates on the Orange blog: Matt (Lead Artist, Titles and 2D designer) writes about how the team manages all the files of the project in 'Behind the scenes, shots and, er… files'. It's interesting to learn how they tackled the problem of managing such a huge amount of files.
I originally wrote this tutorial for the Blender Tutorial Guide #1 and later is was part of a downloadable PDF in the Blender e-shop. The Guide and the PDF are no longer available, but Ton has given me permission to publish it on my website.
Video tutorials are a great way of learning how to use Blender. Apart from having someone actually giving you a cool demonstration, they're the best way of getting to appreciate the power of Blender. (You won't believe the number of times I've heard 'Oooh! I didn't know Blender could do *that*!' when I gave a demo ;-).
Alvaro Luna Bautista has worked for more than four months on a model of a Policarpov I-15 Chato aircraft. During this period he has documented his efforts step by step. The result is an incredibly detailed tutorial with many screenshots, reference images and downloadable files.
Blender 2.41 Released
3 Comments Published by Bart on January 25th, 2006 in Development, Version Tracker
Blender 2.41 is out! And if you thought that this was 'just' a bugfix release (2.40 was released only one month ago) then well, think again. Both the Game Engine and the core toolset have been thourougly improved.
Yafray hack: Accelerated Photon Map Rendering
2 Comments Published by Bart on January 25th, 2006 in Development
RCRuiz has posted a hack that speeds up Photon Map rendering in Yafray a great deal. It's a bit thin on the details but it would seem that he stores the photon distribution in your scene so that you can quickly re-render it from any camera angle and position.
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Ton has posted some comments on the progress of the Orange movie project on the Orange blog. So far, things are going well and he has secured one month of extra funding. It looks like the premiere will be on March 16th or 23rd.
Sunflow Global Illumination Rendering System
2 Comments Published by Bart on January 23rd, 2006 in 3D News
Sunflow is an Open Source Global Illumination rendering system written in Java. A new version was released today and it works with Blender thanks to a Python export script that has been made available.
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Tutorial: Animating Realistic Water Surfaces
1 Comment Published by Bart on January 22nd, 2006 in Tutorials
This has nothing to do with yesterday's article about the new fluid system in Blender. Instead it explains how to create realistically animated water surfaces using (animated) texturemaps.
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As of version 2.40, Blender has an integrated Fluid simulator. It is the result of one of the Google Summer of Code projects. It allows you to define fluid bodies, obstacles and in- and outflow of fluids. The results are amazing but you should be prepared for some long and memory-hungry calculations, especially when you're using high-resolution meshes.
I don't know where he gets both the energy and the inspiration, but after working on the Orange movie during the week @ndy is also working on his own projects during the weekends. He posted another amazing image.
Here's what he writes about it:
pardon the 'roughness' of this image, but i could only work on it this weekend… otherwise these crazy orange guys would've chopped my head off.
this is a bit more gimp than blender, but… oh well…
i just rendered out some little thingies and then stuck them together in gimp.
the idea for this image is a bit older and so is the little dino character.
You can find the full-size version on Elysiun. You can post your praise there too.
If you're working with the game engine or you have another reason to use low polygon modeling, then this tutorial by NeOmega might be interesting to you.
The Orange site features an article on their recent media coverage. Considering the fact that they haven't started a full-blown media campaign (yet?) they're doing pretty well.
Blenderart Magazine #2 is out and once again it is packed with Blender goodness. It features 60 pages of tutorials, articles, Q&A's and Blender Art and it's available for free.
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