The focus of this website has been mainly on the English speaking part of the Blender community. But have you ever wondered what people in, say, India, Brazil, France, China or Japan are creating with Blender?
Blender Around the World: Japan
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Monthly Archives: April 2006
New Webserver for BlenderNation
BlenderNation started as an experiment in blogging three months ago. By now, the site receives some 5500 unique visitors per day and the combination of a 10 year old 300Mhz server and a cable modem didn’t quite cut it anymore.
Blender and Physical Processing Chips (PPUs)
With recent news of Physical Processing Chips (PPUs), or physics cards, like Aegia’s PhysX I began to wonder if the eventual outcome of it’s usage might its adoption into Blender as an alternative to Bullet (the dynamics engine), fluids, particles, and cloth. I asked a few of these aspects developers if they see PPUs being utilized in the future.
Free Texture and Reference Images
I thought we were due for a nice group of links to free texture and reference images. Of course there are too many to list here, but here are a few that I’ve visited on occasion. Some of these are standards for free images, but not everyone knows they’re out there.
BlenderCE Is Now BlenderPocket
Salvatore Russo has updated BlenderCE in three key ways.
1. The website has changed to http://russose.free.fr/.
2. The name has changed to BlenderPocket. And…
Download the Blender Manual
The Blender Manual is available online as a Wiki, in which the editors continually collaborate on improving the content. This is nice if you’re a broadband user but if you’re not always connected then you used to be out of luck. Not anymore!
Dr. Queue Manual For Windows XP
Distributed Rendering is the cornerstone of large productions. There are several options in Blender to achieve this, the most popular open-source solution being Dr. Queue. If you were like me, a Windows XP user in Dr. Queue’s Linux world, you might have found Dr. Queue difficult to setup, if you got it setup at all.
Elephants Dream License Explained
Elephants Dream is the first Open Source movie. This doesn’t just mean that Open Source software was used to produce it, but that all the production files will be Open Source as well! So, if you don’t like one scene or you want to change it you can fire up Blender, load the files and go ahead. The files will be published under a Creative Commons license.
The Chair
I don’t post about Blender artwork often, but every now and then I see an image on the forums that I just keep coming back to.
Elephants Dream Showing in Phoenix, Arizona
The Elephants Dream DVDs will hopefully be shipped during the next few weeks, and the excitement in the Blender community about this event is mounting. This leads to interesting new activities: I received an email from Paul Venezio who is planning to rent a small theatre to show the movie and have a Blender usermeeting.
