The General Hospital of Ciudad Real (Spain) has produced an impressive 5.5 minute video guide for their visitors. The video, which contains a wildly complex model of the hospital and its premises, is modeled, rendered and composited completely in Blender.
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Translators Needed for French Python Articles
Linux Magazine is looking for translators who can help him to translate a series of Python articles from French to English.
Call for Papers: Free Software Magazine
Tony Mobily, the Editor In Chief of Free Software Magazine is looking for Blender content for his magazine.
The Big SCons rewrite
By Nathan Letwory
Since 2004 Blender has been buildable with SCons, an accurate build system implemented in Python. Although the first implementation of the scripts worked, over time it became clear that it was hard to maintain and to extend with the bigger new features in Blender.
Blender on Architectural Record
Blender is having a great time during this period, Project Orange is boosting development and some mid-high level artists are getting interested in using this amazing piece of software; so it seems that after years Blender is getting the right amount of popularity/visibility it’ll need to make a big step towards the professional audience.
Tutorial: Modeling a Rose
If you forgot to buy your sweetheart a gift today, maybe there’s hope yet! FoCus posted a short and sweet tutorial on modeling a rose.
Patch time
Recently three different patches made their public debut in the last testing builds posted on blender.org’s forum, the features introduced by those contributions are worth writing a small overview, so here we are.
Blender.org Gallery Updated: January 2006
I just finished updating the gallery on Blender.org. We again received amazing artwork last month. Congratulations for everyone who made it in!
Tutorial: New Ocean Techniques in Blender
Colin Litster writes some of the coolest Blender tutorials that I know. His most recent work is a very detailed introduction to creating a realistically animated ocean.
CgTalk Ocean Simulation Challenge
If you want to test your animation and special effects skills then maybe CgTalk’s Ocean Simulation Challenge is a nice way to spend your weekend.