The Webcuts Internet Film Fest was held in Berlin last week and it featured three Blender movies: ‘Tonny’ by Ekakiya, ‘New Penguoen’ by Enrico Valenza and of course Elephants Dream.
Special Award for Elephants Dream @ Webcuts Festival
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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Fake SSS In Blender and MakeHuman Pose Preview
Dedalo-3D, the makers of MakeHuman (an open-source, stand-alone software program for modeling of three-dimensional humanoid characters) recently posted two items on their website that are worth a look.
Frame/Time Counter Display Tool
Michael Thoenes has a nice frame/time counter display tool for Blender. This allows you to ID your animation frames with a frame or time counter by placing one or all of the counters in front of your camera and rendering.Blender Workshop, Lancaster, UK
Part of the f.city festival of digital cluture, a FREE 3D Blender workshop with Julian Oliver, Lancaster 10am – 5pm, 17th October @ St. Martins’ College, Lancaster
A free one day workshop on the use of Blender, an open source 3D graphics software package used for modelling, animation, post-production, interactive content creation and playback.
Julian Oliver is a New Zealand-born artist, free software developer, teacher, composer and media-theorist. He has presented papers and artworks at numerous international electronic art events and conferences, and has led workshops and master classes in game-design, virtual architecture, interface design, augmented reality and open source development practices worldwide.
The workshop is free, but booking is essential.
To book, telephone 01524 388550 or email [email protected]
Venue: St. Martin’s College, Lancaster Campus, Bowerham Road, Lancaster LA1 3JD, 01524 384384
About the festival
f.city is a major digital arts festival of exhibitions, events, performances, talks, screenings and podcasts bringing together some of the very best technology-driven creative practice.
Student Graduation Film: “The Asylum”
A congratulation to Neils Philipsen aka MadMesh for completeing his student film graduation project “The Asylum.” This is a black & white film in the style of the old classic Frankenstien’s Monster films and a bit Tim Burton with music was composed by Sidhartha Barnhoorn.
Book Review: inspired 3D Short Film Production
So, you want to make a movie.
It’s probably every Blenderheads ultimate goal: Create your own animated masterpiece that let’s everyone see the wonders of your creative imagination! Whether it’s a comedy, drama, sci-fi, action, etc., you want to finally get around to creating something that allows you to bring all the knowledge and experience you’ve gained into one project.
But, where do you start? How do you get from point-A to point-B? And, most importantly, how do you finish the dang thing?! Oh sure, many have started projects but, how many actually finish them?
What you need is a highly-detailed guide. One that spares no detail and, is not based on any particular 3D software application. One that will illuminate things that seem so insignificant but, can ultimately make or break your entire project. Well, here it is:
Blender Gets Irregular Shadow Buffers
Normally we would wait for the October CVS report we will post at the end of the month, but this item was too cool to keep quiet. Ton recently committed a new type of shadow buffer to the CVS that takes advantage of some very interesting new methods to give Blender greater functionality.
Topology Tutorial & Discussion, Edgeloops, Poles!
When modeling an organic figure such as the human head and one that is going to have animated deformations via bones and or shape keys, it is important to understand some basics in mesh construction such as edgeloops , triangles VS quads, and poles. Gaurav Nawani has pointed us to an extensive tutorial / discussion on topology at SubDivisionModeling.com
Animatu: Elephants Dream Selected For The Competition
Well, the title says it all, Elephants Dream (ED) has been nominated for the 3D Shorts category. The announcement can be seen at the official website and the competition is harder then one might think.
Blender welcomes Lightwave Users
As Blender continues to grow, so does the community. One way to make new users (and even casual visitors) feel more welcomed is to recognize the problems they may have in translating their experiences with other 3D applications to the Blender experience. It can be a very frustrating experience that can often cause potential new “converts” to simply give up.
Well, we can’t just sit back and let that happen, can we?
