Damn, I wish I lived in London. From April 1st to June 10th the London Science Museum is hosting an exhibition on 20 years of pixar.
Pixar: 20 Years of Animation Exhibition in London
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Monthly Archives: February 2006
Up and Down
Sander Wit has posted an wonderful image on Elysiun that is based on the work ‘Up and Down’ by the Dutch artist M.C. Escher.
The Making of ‘Ambassador Summers’
In this article Guarav Nawani explains the artistic process behind the making of some images that I remember as classics.
BlenderNation on Your Site?
Many people (well, to be honest: about 10 ;-) have asked us to prepare some buttons or banners that they can put on their website to link to BlenderNation. Not only did we do that, but we have decided to take it one step further: you can now easily publish the BlenderNation headlines on your own website.
One way ticket from Blender to POV-Ray (through Yafray)
Are you a fan of POV-Ray & co. ? Are you bored by the thousands of settings available in the POVAnim script?
Then you’ll be interested in taking a look at Blend2POV for sure.
The Blender 3D Model Repository
Andrew Kator is hosting an impressive array of ready to use Blender objects on his Blender 3D Model Repository ranging from vehicles to animals, architecture and electronics. Most of the models are released under the Blender Artistic License.
Update [2006/11/25]: The site no longer exists; read more about it and an alternative.
Stupid Memory Problems
The .blend files of Orange are requiring more and more memory to render/composite and Ton has been struggling to find a solution. As it turns out, OSX (Orange uses an Apple XServe renderfarm) can only allocate 1.5GB per application at a time and windows seem to have similar problems.
BlenderCE Available for Download, Splash Screen Contest
We reported earlier that Salvatore Russo has started a project to bring Blender back to the pocketPC. He now has a first version available for download
(Not so) New modeling Tool
Directly from SharpConstruct website:
“SharpConstruct is a 3D modeling program designed to paint depth on to polygon models in real-time. Unlike traditional modeling programs, SharpConstruct makes it easy to model organic shapes.
Welcm t Frappr
I know what You’re thinking, I’m anything but illiterate ;-)
While surfing the web trying to waste my precious spare time (it’s an hobby of mine) I fell on something funny: the “BlenderHeads Around the Globe” Frappr online service!
Are you tired of feeling like the only Blender User in your town/city/country/continent/planet (sorry actually no space positioning system available, complain about it at Nasa.com :-P)? Well go and search for another BlenderHead near you.
