Colin Levy, the artist of “Handscape” and the caretaker of Icarus (and maker of it’s video tutorials) also has an unscripted video tutorial discussing camera mapping (a.k.a front projection mapping) in Blender with his brother Alex. Since it’s unscripted, let’s just call it “Camera Mapping In Blender With Colin and Alex Levy: Live!”
Back in February we asked you to make us proud by submitting your Blender art to the German 2D/3D competition Animago. Well, you did!
Deep Thought, the man who brought us the Icarus import script, has written a great introduction to compositing in Blender using the greatly anticipated nodes system.
We first reported about the Argentinean movie project Plumiferos two months ago. Since then, much progress has been made and it’s about time for an update.
jms has posted updates to his kml/kmz import scripts (version 0.1.4 released May 25th) for importing SketchUp And Google Earth files into Blender. Here are the changes (inlcuding the 0.1.3 update) from the site:
__version__ = “0.1.3, 20 May 2006″ :
Manage placemark
__version__ = “0.1.4, 25 May 2006″ :
Manage color by placemark
We wrote earlier about Firefox Flicks Blender Animations. During the creation of the FoxFire entry the author has written a really good tutorial on using Blender’s Sequencer and the Alpha Over effect in particular. This is a great effect and an even greater mystery to many, but this tutorial will help you understand just how to setup one of the most popular sequencing effects!
The Firefox Flicks competition is over and two entries have been made (partially) using Blender. Both of them have posted detailed descriptions of their work and made the .blend files available.
The fourth issue of Blenderart Magazine is now available for download. This issue is extra large and has some nice articles dealing with character modeling.
Blender fits well into many different kinds of work, from film to urban planning. So who is the Blender artist that fits into the children’s book industry that nets 4.4 billion USD (pdf) (3.4 billion EUR) annually in the US alone? His name is Nick Towers, an artist that creates visually stunning art aimed at children’s book illustration using Blender.
Alexander Ewering (intrr), has introduced a Blender project fork to create a desktop publishing software called DTPBlender.
