Ted Gocek has developed a Blender to Renderman pipeline. His method is not for the faint of heart as he’s using a host of (open source) tools to achieve his goal. Still, if you need Renderman then this may be useful for you.

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Juan Pablo Bouza has published BlenRig, a humanoid rig for Blender 2.43 based on bones deformation. The rig, which uses over 680 bones and includes full facial animation, comes with a whopping 26 page manual.

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German animation studio Die Versilberte Eitelkeit and Arroba Films S.A. de C.V. have recently finished their 8 minute short movie ‘Cosmic Balance‘, based on Francisco Athié’s short novel. Much of the work was done in Blender.

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Have you heard of the Stanford bunny? How about the Utah teapot? And how does a Mandrill primate, found in the tropical rainforests of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo have anything to do with the history of computer graphics and animation?

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With the help of Ian Ball, British police are entering the animation age this week in a bid to get the car crime prevention message across to young people.

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Mecanoo architects won the competition for the National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center, Taiwan. And Blender helped them do it.

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I remember a special epiphany that I had a long time ago, back when I had a lot of time to blend. For days on end I had been pouring all my spare time into an animation, and on one such day I was sitting there trying to get a toy brontosaurus’s eyes to pop out of his skull when he was hit by falling letters (I’m not making this up), when suddenly it dawned on me that the whole project was just plain silly, and I just had to laugh at myself for spending all my time so absurdly. If you’ve ever experienced a moment like this, or you like to have a good laugh at yourself otherwise, you just might get a kick out of the hilarious Blender article that was recently created on Uncyclopedia.org:

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Robert Schober (roboshobo) has done another music video using Blender. Nearly a year ago, we wrote about the ”Dear Valentine” music video he did.

This time around it’s “Machines” by the band Kiss Kiss. The music video has a nice little hunter vs. prey themed story, and the very nice rock music goes along well with its stylistic look.

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The BURP project aims to provide a publicly accessible distributed renderfarm for Blender. It is built upon the BOINC software (the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) which is now also used for projects such as Seti@Home.

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