You might recall the one small step for Blender which was the incorporation of MentalRay support in a build by RCRuiz. Well now comes the giant leap of Blender2MentalRay 0.0.3.
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Tutorial: Creating a vase in Blender
If you’re new to Blender and you would like a kickstart introduction to modeling, check out this tutorial by Gaurav Nawani.
Use Blender With Microsoft Robotics Studio
About ten days ago (on December 12th) Microsoft released it’s Microsoft Robotics Studio (which is free for non-commercial use and $400 USD for commercial). What’s really neat is that there is an add-on with Blender support.
Blender Training Workshop: Richmond, VA, USA
Hand Turkey Studios (the company of Jason ‘Groo’ van Gumster, the blender.org gallery maintainer and Blender fluid wizard) is offering a Blender Training Workshop in Richmond, VA on the 12th of January.
CVS: Image Refactor + Multiple UV/Vertex Colors
The Blender 2.43 release is getting closer everyday, and even with the clock counting down to release, huge advancements are being made to the Blender code. This time, Ton has done an image refactor (committed to the CVS Dec. 20th) and Brecht has given us the much asked for Multiple UVs and vertex colors (committed to the CVS Dec. 21st)!
Realtime 3D Contest: €25,000 in prizes
TDT3D.com, ‘the European CG Network’ is hosting a realtime 3D contest with a rather impressive bunch of prizes. Most of the names on the prize list don’t mean a thing to me (I’d be happy with the 3DWorld subscription ;-), but it might be interesting for aspiring game developers in the Blender community.
Write a Tutorial, Earn $30
In November we wrote about Blender3DTutorials.com, a Google powered search engine by Jason Schluter for Blender tutorials. Jason has now decided to stimulate the creation of new tutorials by offering $30 for the best new Character Animation tutorial.
Quicklinks – Blender in the Media
Here’s another handful of items about recent appearance of Blender in the international media: a Blender article in Playboy magazine, a famous Blender user on Digg.com, some videoblogging and the appearance of a short bit of Blender on American national television.
Tutorial: Texture Stencils
I don’t know about the rest of you but one of the things I enjoy the most about Blender is material editing. Even before nodes it was fun to layer textures and procedurals together, adding and mixing…ahhh material bliss. Recently an interesting tutorial on texture stencils has come to my attention and its well worth the look for those new and I think even experienced Blenderheads may learn a few things.
Blender.org Gallery Updated
Groo just published the November update of the Blender.org gallery. Again, there’s lots of cool artwork and I noticed that more Indigo renders are starting to appear.
