Over the last few weeks we have received information of a few remarkable Blender movie projects that are being worked on around the world. This week we’ll be highlighting some of them in our ‘Blender International Movie Week’. Today part one: Mexico, where Oscar Alvarado is working on the short animation movie ‘Murnau the Vampire’.
Blender is an amazing tool for 3D production and post-production but what about animation pre-production? Alot of projects begin by creating a website, installing a forum, a blog, a project management system such as DotProject and then kind of slap it all together. Although doable, I was gladly surprised that there is an open source creative commons licensed software that combines all of the features for pre-production into one software.
This tutorial by Eugene is an excellent overview of the new node material system. If you are just getting started with nodes or are a bit confused on how it all works then definitely try out this tutorial.
Clean3D has created a fun little rigged character to experiment with.
Tonight, the new Plumiferos trailer will be playing at the 22nd Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina. Read more.
We’ve had tons of posts on this website, but on a blog the past is easily forgotten. I thought it would be fun to take a look at what happened one year ago on BlenderNation and in the Blender community in general by starting a ‘One Year Ago’ column that we’ll post each week.
Jassar has won the 3rd prize in CGArena’s Winter Challenge. The mission was to create an image that gives you ‘the feeling of winter’, and I think Jassar did a great job. Congratulations!
A new Plumiferos trailer will be shown at the prestigious Mar Del PLata Film Festival in Argentina this Saturday. With the international industry and stars AND part of the PlumÃferos crew attending, it looks like it’ll be a memorable event.
Kernon has been steadily creating new videotutorials. And even though he’s a writer here at BlenderNation, he’s either too shy or too modest (I’m voting for the latter one) to publish about any of them! Anyway, here’s his latest tutorial: creating glint effects in Blender with Halo effects. The method allows for exact placement of glints in your images.
A new option has appeared in the camera settings window in Blender 2.43: ‘Shift’. Allan Brito explains how to use it to fine-tune your camera position.
