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Ton has published the development roadmap for Blender 2.44 and 2.50. 2.44 will be worked on during April. It will be a release with mainly bugfixes and minor improvements. This will be the last release before 2.50 which will consist of the long expected UI overhaul and other feature upgrades. The tentative releasedate for 2.50 is october/november 2007. Check out the report on Blender.org.
Audio Analysis Script, With Tutorial
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Published by Bart on
March 31st, 2007 in Python Scripts, Tutorials
Dave Jarvis has released version 1.0.0 of his Audio Analysis script. This script will read a .wav file and map the amplitude to several types of IPO curves. It's a great tool for synchronising certain effects (like thunder and lighting, explosions etc) in your animation with the audio.
What's up With the Teo & Tea Banner?
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Published by Bart on
March 31st, 2007 in BlenderNation
Maybe you've seen the Téo & Téa Banner on the homepage of BlenderNation during the last week. This is off-topic, but I'd like to explain why it is there.
- Blender to 3Delight Export Script
3Delight is a fast RenderMan-compliant renderer featuring multi-threading, ray tracing, global illumination, motion blur, depth of field, programmable shaders (RenderMan Shading Language support), quality antialiasing, and antialiased multi-depth shadow maps.
What Did YOU Do to Poor Mancandy? - And the Winner is…
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Published by Bart on
March 30th, 2007 in Art, Contests
The Mancandy contest is over! About twenty people participated, fourteen people voted and I applied my advanced math this morning to figure out the winner. Who that is? Read on…
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Elephants Dream Showing at Dutch Movie Festival
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Published by Bart on
March 29th, 2007 in Orange
If you live in the Netherlands then you have another chance to see Elephants Dream on the big screen: the organisation of the 23rd Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival (AFFF) has accepted it for their programme.
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What Did YOU Do to Poor Mancandy? - Voting Starts
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Published by Bart on
March 29th, 2007 in Contests
One week ago a thread on BlenderArtists.org got me wondering how everyone was using the Mancandy rig. There were some very funny examples, not all of them very pleasant for poor little Mancandy. Little did he know that things were about to become a lot worse!
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Using (dynamic) text in the Blender game engine requires a few steps: defining a texture with bitmaps of the font which you want to use, mapping this to a plane, and setting the correct texture type. It's not very complicated, but it's one of those things someone needs to explain to you, I guess. This short tutorial by Andrew West takes you through it step by step.
Do you remember the Sam Brubaker's movie 'Infinitum' from last years Art Festival? Well, not only did he win first prize during the Blender Conference, but he also won an audience award for best animation during November’s Asheville Film Festival. The Asheville Citizen-Times featured an article on Sam's accomplishments.
Click on the image on the right and tell me what your first impression is. Is it real, made with high-end 3D software or with Blender? Of course the fact that it's published on this site may give it away but still - give it a try ;-)
Rigging your character is one of the most complex tasks to accomplish in Blender. And there is nothing like a good tutorial to help you along.
Awesome Creeping Ivy Generator
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Published by Kernon on
March 26th, 2007 in 3D News, Toolbox
Every now and then you stumble upon something that really is special and helps you to do something that, otherwise, would simply be an amazing pain in the you-know-where. This is one of those times.
Blender International Movies: Les Vepres de Sang (France)
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Published by Bart on
March 26th, 2007 in Art
Well, my original intention to do a daily post about international Blender movie projects didn't quite work out due to some time limitations, but here's part two: Les Vepres de Sang by the French group Omnimedia-Jdr.
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BlenderArt Magazine Issue #9 Released
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Published by Daniel (Prince) on
March 25th, 2007 in Community
The community magazine BlenderArt Magazine has published their ninth issue. In this issue they have tutorials and articles on "space". With over 60 pages it is quite the read!
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