Linux.com features a review of the Wikibook ‘Blender 3D: Noob to Pro’ that was started by David Millet. It also sheds some light on David’s new project: ‘Blender 3D: Go Pro!’.
‘Blender 3D: Noob to Pro’ Reviewed
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Monthly Archives: February 2006
CVS: what’s going on
Anyone of us BlenderHeads know that in the last days CVS repository’s code is being updated every 40-50 minutes, but only the brave hearted who tried to make a development build know what’s going on in detail apart from Ton’s rederer rewrite and noodles (the new node system for material definition and compositing).
Tutorial: “Cage” Technique
This tutorial covers an interesting approach to creating ‘cage’ like objects.
Official Honda DXF Models Available for Download
Sonix points out on Elysiun that Honda has posted heaps of freely available DXF models of 20 products (cars, racing bikes and even a robot) on their website.
Orange Update: Call for Translations, Call for Textures
When Project Orange started, one of the ideas that was going around was to involve the community by having them make props or scripts. Probably the team reasoned that it was more work to coordinate such a community effort then it was to make all the stuff by themselves. Also, how do you involve a group without giving away too much of the plot? Once the team buried themselves in their work we didn’t hear from the community effort again.
BlenderNation Downtime
Yesterday I had connectivity problems with my ISP. I suspect their DHCP server died and a a result BlenderNation was unreachable for a few hours.
Tutorial: Softbody for Rigged Characters
Enrico Valenza, winner of the animation award of the Blender Animation Festival 2005, has written a tutorial on the character animation of ‘PengZilla’, the dancing penguin/bird character in his winning movie.
Blenderart Magazine #3 Call for Content
The Blenderart Magazine editors are gathering content for their next issue. The theme is going to be ‘Rendering’.
New Site Name: BlenderNation.com
Things are going well with my new site. Hundreds of people visit each day and the number of visitors is continually rising. It must mean I’m on to something :). To celebrate this I’ve moved it to a new domain: www.blendernation.com.
Community Journal #3
A new Community Journal is out, packed with cool Blender art, an interview with Jan Kurka, an article about ‘Transcendent’ (a first-person shooter Blender game), and a few good tutorials.
