Leif Dehmelt has been working on a Python script to create skinned rigs from an armature. The concept is simple: you draw an armature and the script will generate a cylindrical mesh around it.
Late last week, Stéphane Grabli of the Freestyle project sent an email to the Blender developer mailing list and posted an announcement on BlenderArtists.org, voicing an interest in integrating Freestyle into Blender and calling for assistance. For those of you who don’t know, Freestyle is a very powerful open source non-photorealistic renderer (NPR) that’s been developed as a joint research project between students at INRIA in France and MIT in the US. Below is an excerpt from his email to the Blender developers:
Today is the deadline for the TD3D.Com Realtime 3D Contest.
Alexandre Rangel has created a four-hour Portuguese videotutorial that introduces you to Blender modeling and texturing by using a Honda Shadow motorbike as an example. For only R$35 (about $16) you can download the eight chapters, reference images and .blend files.
Bob Holcomb, whom you may remember from his workshop on video compositing and garbage matting at Siggraph, is hosting a series of Blender compositing contests at BlenderArtists. The theme of the first round is ‘The Elements!’ – using Blender create your best effect that captures one or more elements (earth/wind/fire/water).
Yes, you read right.
Open Source Multimedia Training organized by the InterSpace Media Arts Center and sponsored by the European Union.
Geom Tool is an powerful Python script that will help you with mesh editing. It contains fourteen functions to align, distribute, project and intersect. Allan Brito, author of the Portuguese ‘Blender 3D – Guia do Usuário‘ has written an extensive tutorial on how to use it.
In an effort to keep the site spam free I re-queued all the comments in the database into our spamfilter today. It suspected 179 messages to be spam, but they were all genuine (which means the spamfilter was pretty good in the first place!). I did have to approve all of them though and as a result, a few hundred extra notification mails have been sent out. Sorry for that!
Matray, a French director, did this music video using some of the new features in Blender 2.43, especially the displacement modifier. Though Matray himself modestly considers this an unserious “testâ€, it’s really an art piece in my opinion. Very surreal and lovely style!
Olivier Saraja has offered to spot news for us in the French Blender community – something that has been a bit hard for us op to now. Today: no less than five new compositor nodes: threshold, circular, radial and directional blur and a ‘random value’ node.
