From February 5th – 8th, Raimon Guarro will be hosting a Blender introduction course at the LabMedia of of the Barcelona University. The course is aimed at the beginning Blender or 3D user.
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Monthly Archives: January 2007
How to Produce a Good Video Tutorial
I’ve been watching a lot of Blender video tutorials lately and I thought some of them were very good and some of them, while being produced with the best intentions, weren’t. This got me thinking: what are the elements of a ‘good’ video tutorial? Maybe this checklist can help you when you’re producing one.
CGChallenge XX Deadline Extended
The deadline for the CGChallge XX has been extended by two weeks, so today is the deadline of the CGChallenge CC contest.
Blender in Amateur Movie “Idealityâ€
Blender is used very much in low-budget amateur movies. “Ideality†is a good example of this, and its moment in the BlenderNation spotlight has arrived.
Free Blender Workshop in Sao Paulo, Feb 3rd
While we’re talking about Argentina, here’s something that just arrived in my mail: the Alpha Channel School in Sao Paulo is organising a free three-hour Blender Workshop this Saturday at 2pm. The theme is ‘Artistical Blender Modeling’.
Elephants Dream: Spanish Dub
Sebastián Arias wrote to us about his Spanish Dub of Elephants Dream. Now my Spanish doesn’t go much beyond ordering food and drinks, but from what I’ve seen so far they’ve done a great job! You can view their work on YouTube, or download the full DVD version from their website.
Deadline(tm) Renderfarm Supports Blender with Two Free Render Nodes
More and more professional-grade renderfarms are beginning to offer support for Blender. Deadline(tm) is offering two render nodes to the Blender community at no charge!
New Forms / Open Tools Meeting in Innsbruck
Students of the Innsbruck university have been using Blender for their course in experimental architecture this year. This Monday (January 29th)they will be presenting their work.
The event takes place at the Zukunftszentrum in Innsbruck and is hosted by Samo Korosec. Samo previously worked with the Zukunftszentrum and helped integrate Blender with their CAVE environment.
Tutorial: Lighting Rigs
Lighting out a scene is an art on its own. If you’re struggling with it, check this out: Roger Wickes has posted an article in the Blender Documentation Wiki explaining several standard lighting setups. The rigs contain from one to four lights and for each of them, he explains what they’re best used for.
Show Your Game Project Screenshots
MagicMyshu has opened a thread on the BlenderArtists game engine forum where he invites everyone to post screenshots of their current game projects.
