This is really cool: the popular Community Journal is back! There’s a new issue available on BlenderArtist.org with (of course) an Art overview, an interview with basse (one of the guys from team Orange), a ‘making of’ and a cool tutorial.
Read it here.
This one’s a bit of an oldy: I wrote it years ago when I still worked for Not a Number (the company that developed Blender for a while). It’s now part of the Blender Manual which is released under the Open Content License.
It teaches you everything you need to know about the Sequence Editor by editing a tiny videoclip which is composed of several layers of animation.
The tutorial is available here.
After struggling for years with the arcane XML Docbook standard, the Docboard has now switched to Mediawiki (the software that powers Wikipedia.org) to maintain the Blender Manual.
Blender 2.40 has been released.The major additions this release are the Character Animation rewrite, the added Fluid Dynamics system, improved editing and rendering of Particle Based Hair, and the Modifier Stack.This new release is the result of two big events: Google Summer of Code and Project Orange.
As already mentioned in different boards(e.g. the posting on elysiun.com) there’s a new zine under the CC license for the Blender community.
Lead by Sandra Gilbert [dreamsgate] the team (Gaurav Nawani, Stefano Selleri, Alvaro Luna Bautista and others) intend to distribute frequently a news package for the blenders. Embeded in a nice design, it contains news from Blender development and the OSS graphic scene, galleries, tips, workshops and of course tutorials.
The first volume includes a review of GIMP 2.4, a detailed tutorial for modeling and animating a smart robot, a step by step introduction to the BMG plugin, and news news news…
Get it here [5.6MB Zipped PDF]
It has been years since I have last updated my website. To my astonishment, still over 300 people visit each day and I figured I need to put in some more effort. I still need to integrate the layout of my tutorials with the rest of this site, but we’ll see where this goes :-)
Update: I got some questions about the number of visitors so I re-checked my numbers. It turns out that I have around 400 unique visitors per day of which 85% are new. Let’s see what the Blog will add to that!
