The 4th edition of the Peugeot Design Contest has begun! Design the car of the future and if you win you will be able to see your concept car in full-scale at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show and see your concept car in an Xbox 360 video game.
Alaric Haag wrote:
For those in the Baton Rouge, LA area, I’ll be presenting an intro/demo of Blender.
This talk will be aimed at creating interest in Blender by illustrating what Blender can do, more than the details of how to do it.
Eric Kilkenny aka jazzdalek has created an outstanding Wink-video tutorial series on 2D to 3D animation. In this series, he takes you through his character design process starting in Adobe Illustrator.
If you are interested in a Blender U.S. conference, yeshuawatso has a discussion going on at Blender Artist. The big question is, are there enough interested U.S. Blender users and where are they located so that a reasonable location can be selected.
You might recall the Blender Summer of Documentation that was initiated a few months back to create comprehensive documentation of various aspects of Blender.  It’s about time we start taking a look at them, starting with Mal’s Game Engine documentation.
Yesterday I was posting a new event (a Blender demo in Baton Rouge) to the Event Calendar and I was wondering if people actually notice new events showing up there. So let me ask you: do you read the Event Calendar and do you notice when new stuff appears in it? Is it a useful part of the website? Any suggestions for improvement?
For those in the Kansas City area, Jonathan Williamson (mr_bomb) will be giving a presentation on Blender at the Kansas City Apple store in the Plaza, Monday September 11th, 6:00-7:00 pm. He’ll briefly cover the history of Blender, then move on to some of the major features and uses of Blender, and then do in a live demonstration of it’s modeling power.
If anyone is interested or would like more info please let him know on the BAÂ thread.
3DTotal.com features a face modeling tutorial by Oskar Swierad and Kamil Makowski. Their workflow incorporates Blender, ZBrush and Photoshop.
Here are three short items about recent appearance of Blender in the international media: a German magazine and TV show, and a Brazilian newspaper.
After our post about Radiance’s latest work, you might be looking at Indigo and wondering how to use it with Blender. Look no further! Radiance has posted an excellent (and extensive) tutorial on using Indigo with Blender.
