Ibkanat sent us link of an incredible demonstration of Blender fluids. It reminded me of the Psuedopod from Director James Cameron’s move and special effects by ILM “The Abyss”
Magic Fluid Control
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Piovra Renderfarm Project Updated
Blender is no stranger to the world of distributive rendering. There are several simple python scripts as well as Dr. Queue that can do the job for Blender (here’s the Windows user manual for Dr. Queue by the Rovorm team). But one has been silent for the past 2 years… until now.
Six Video Tutorials: an Introduction to Blender
There’s a new video site on the block and it’s called ShowMeDo. It’s not another Youtube or Google video; instead they focus on videos that teach the viewer. At this moment they have seven categories, Blender being one of them. Currently, they host an exceptional series of video tutorials by Glen Moyes, who made these for his Blender workshop.
Organic Modeling Techniques.
The challenge of organic modeling is not for the faint of heart. Terms like edge loop, quads, stars, n-gons, topology, etc. are used casually and many new modelers may not understand the terms or the workflow concepts necessary to produce a clean and/or animateable model.
Tutorial: Footprints in the Sand
Philippe Roubal has been experimenting with ways to animate footprints in the sand. He published the results of his work in a new tutorial.
Blender in top 10 of television PSA competition
Article submitted by Allan Liddle: Blender was used to compete in the VUKA! awards in South Africa – a national television Public Service Announcement (PSA) competition, where it had to compete against video and film, as well as commercial 3D animation software – and it made the top 10 finals! What makes this more unique was that it was the only submission done completely in open source and was the first-ever animation project by a guy who had just resigned as an engineer to fulfil his passion: 3D open source animation.
Flying Bird – Character Rigging Series.
A good introduction to basic rigging and some useful tips like using CTRL-N to recalculate bone normal orientation, something you don’t think of as a useful command, but it´s very usefull to have the bone´s Z axis pointing in the right direction.
Elephants Dream Playing in Dutch Cinemas
Elephants Dream will be playing in Dutch art house movie theaters as a short ‘pre-movie’ for the new Dutch production ‘Dutch Touch’, a documentary on Dutch hiphop culture. (To see a trailer of ‘Dutch Touch’, visit their website, wait through the intro and then select ‘trailer’).
Timothy Leaves BlenderArtists
Timothy Kanters, one of the founders of Elysiun/BlenderArtists, has decided to stop managing his website.
November CVS Report: Render passes, bug fixing …
Already wondering why the CVS report hadn’t appeared?
No, we didn’t ditch it, but we did wait for some new features to be available before posting the report.
The title gives you a hint, but I’m sure you aren’t even close to imagine what changed this past month.
