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Elephants Dream Used to Test JPEG 2000 Decoder Chip
11 Comments Published by MathiasPedersen on April 12th, 2007 in 3D News, Orange
The company behind this chip has upon request received original renderers of Elephants Dream from the Blender Foundation. These were used to test the 2K video screening capabilities of their new JPEG 2000 decoder chip.
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Impressive rigs with actions available.
18 Comments Published by brian on April 11th, 2007 in Repositories
Every once in awhile some impressive things pop up for Blender users to learn from and experiment with. This is one of those things.
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Blenderart Magazine #10 Call for Content
3 Comments Published by MathiasPedersen on April 11th, 2007 in Community
Blenderart Magazine is preparing for their 10th issue and they are looking for content. Sandra Gilbert sent in the following call for content:
It's time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue #10 of Blenderart Magazine. In this issue we are focusing on 'Organic Modeling'.
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Imperitor wrote this nice grass tutorial on the Blender Artists forums. It goes through the process of making grass in Blender step by step in an easily comprehendible way. This is a good tutorial for anyone wanting to make grass in Blender, or someone new to the particle system.
Step aside, Joan! There's a new lady in town, and if you're a fan of the Warcraft series, you'll really dig this contribution.
Here's our regular overview of Blender in the printed media. This time we have en editorial comment in a British magazine, a very cool looking tutorial in a Chinese mag and appearances in German, Italian and American magazines.
An inconspicuous post in our Event Calendar in February led to a flood of reactions: Karl Kühberger was organising a Blender Workshop in Vienna but it was meant only for teachers. Many Austrian Blender users were interested in attending such a workshop and now Karl is ready with the preparations to do just that!
Not too long ago, the Blender community was all abuzz with Project Orange excitement. In case you weren’t around, here’s a summary of events: a small team of Blender artists and animators got together in Amsterdam for several months. They created the world’s first open movie using mostly Blender and other open source software. Their results of their work? A short film lovingly known as “Elephants Dream,” as well as a number of badly needed Blender improvements.
- Linux vs. Windows
In this corner, weighing in with NTFS, Microsoft's flagship product, Windows XP! And in this corner, weighing in with ext3, staying the course with open source, Linux! Who will be victorious in the battle of the decade, nay, the century! MPAN3 pits them together to see who renders the fastest.
Siggraph 2007: Birds of a Feather
13 Comments Published by Bart on April 6th, 2007 in Conferences, SIGGRAPH
I just received confirmation from Ton that there will be a Blender Birds of a Feather [BOF] meeting at Siggraph 2007 in San Diego. There's not much info to share yet, except that it's on Monday, August 6th in Room 29A.
Tase, from the French community BlenderClan has finished his first comic, and he's about to show it to French editors. He did a great and entertaining work, and very stylish also.
PlaneShift Project Recruiting Blender Artists
18 Comments Published by David Millet on April 5th, 2007 in 3D News
Are you a Blender artist looking for a good project? If so, then take a look at PlaneShift, a free and open source MMORPG under heavy development. In case you're not already familiar with the PlaneShift project, Wikipedia has some useful information:
PlaneShift is a cross-platform fantasy MMORPG in development. Client software is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It is produced by a developer community, founded by Luca Pancallo, and guided by the Atomic Blue non-profit organization. The engine code is based on the Crystal Space engine and therefore free software. The content is released under another license.
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Material Works script – Search & Replace materials, and more
19 Comments Published by Kernon on April 4th, 2007 in 3D News, Python Scripts, Toolbox
Here's a great time-saving tool created by Vaclav Chaloupka. It's been created to allow fast searching of materials in a scene with the ability to easily replace them with another material. But, that's not all it can do.
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Blendiberia 2007 will be celebrated in Castellón de la Plana from the 13th to the 15th of April. Blendiberia is a Latin fan Blender meeting. This year it will take place during iParty9. There will be a lecture about animation movies by one of the creators of Plumíferos.
Continuing the saga of Matt posts, we have an excellent technique from him on creating fake subsurface scattering (SSS).
Here's some more great news from the French developers: Snark, from the French community BlenderClan has coded in a new set of buttons for the Blender GUI.
Blender Imagery at CeBIT 2007
9 Comments Published by Bart on April 2nd, 2007 in 3D News, Professional Services
Thorsten Schlüter has prepared a number of images for a the CeBIT 2007 booth of a company named 'AVM'. CeBIT is one of the largest (if not THE largest) consumer electronics tradeshows in Europe, leading to a giant exposure.
I had a lot of fun reading yesterday's comments on the 'Hidden 3DS Max Display Mode' – thanks, everyone! :) Although it's not widely known, the RT button DOES have a function. I had a chat about it with Ton Roosendaal and he wrote the following article:
The "rt" button in Blender is there for developers to allow debugging or to hide testing. This value is by-definition not saved in (or read from) a Blender file, so you have to set it each time when you start Blender.
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