Samran Abed Alsalam sent me a list of 10 Blender video-tutorial in Arabic. Now I know that this will be of little use to many of you but the reason I’m posting these tutorials is that I think they are very well produced. Give it a try: look at one of them and see if you can follow the story. I watched the episode on MultiRes meshes and I think I learned a thing or two.
Bassam Kurdali and Andy Goralczyk were invited to speak at the Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy last January. It looks like they had a blast – here is their report.
Edouard Tisserant contacted us about a commercial presentation that he made with Blender. The animation is simple but effective; it explains the technical concepts behind a Linux based backup and restore system.
Alvaro Luna Bautista sent us a detailed article about the state of Yafray. He touches on the struggle of the team to keep development going during the last year and he provides a detailed list of the upcoming features. It all looks very promising – I hope they’ll be able to get a stable release out soon!
We were contacted by Anja, the manager of the Blender.org E-shop today. She told me that they now have three new products available in the shop: a PDF version of the 2.3 Guide, the French ‘La 3D Libre avec Blender’ and *gasp* new stickers! Nothing too shocking, but if you’re looking for a way to support the Blender Foundation, why not send yourself a little gift?
For the last few years, the Blender Foundation has been partly financed by subsidies from the European Union. The subsidy rounds are called ‘Framework Programmes’, and the deadline for project proposals for the seventh Framework Programme is nearing. Ton Roosendaal sent in the following article in search of ideas and assistance for this next round.
A four-day Blender workshop at the Barcelona University. Read more.
In Blender 2.42a some might find it difficult to get a realistic look to hair. Well help is available in the form of a mini-tutorial from Aidan.
Ton has posted an announcement on blender.org about some of the work that’s currently going on behind the scenes. There’s new hardware being installed, blender.org gets a complete makeover and the final 2.43 release has been planned.
The Alpha Channel School in Sao Paulo is organising a free three-hour Blender Workshop this Saturday at 2pm. Read more.
