Brendon Murphy [Meta-Androcto] has released a ‘meta material library’ in which he has collected over 480 materials and textures and he’s planning for 160 more. It is a monster collection of several material libraries that have been released so far and it’s well worth checking out.
We receive regular reports of people or companies who are selling Blender on eBay. What should we, as the Blender community, think of this? I’ll explore some of the do’s and don’ts of this practice in this article and I’ll suggest a course of action if you run into one.
Article submitted by Olm-z:
When Nintendo got out its latest machine, the Wii, some of us where to think that the real innovation was not in the console itself, but in the bew controllers (Wiimote and Nunchuk) that use a clever and ready to use set of accelerometers and for the Wiimote, a special pointing system with IR cam and leds ….
So lots of people started to hack and reverse engineer the controller way to communicate with the Wii and developing drivers for Win, Mac an Linux … (all things that are accessible here: http://www.wiili.org).
Its an incredible time to get into Blender, especially with all of the available learning resources. Lets look at one of these resources. A head modeling training DVD from Jonathan Williamson (aka:mr_bomb) that covers every aspect of modeling the female head. You may remember Jonathan’s head and ear modeling videos well this is a leap above that and we’ll take an insiders look at what can be found on this excellent resource.
When we first heard about this DVD we pinned Jonathan down to ask him a few questions under the spotlight.
Today, Roland Hess will be speaking about BlenderPeople at the Grey Thumb group in Boston. Full details.
Today is the content submission deadline for Blenderart Magazine #9. For more information on this issue, read more here.
From today until Friday (March 5th-9th) the Uni-Verse team will be demonstrating Verse and Blender at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Murphy Randle is publishing the first Blender podcast. The first episode: an interview with Pablo Vazquez.
One of our readers pointed out sometime ago that Portuguese readers have a lot more books available, yes you read right.
Seems like we missed one Portuguese Blender book, but luckily someone was kind enough to point it out.
Remember our post about the Grey Thumb group last month? They were looking for a Blender user to give them a Blender demonstration. Well, they’ve found one and I can only say I’m sorry I can’t be there!
