Fitchmicah has posted a nice setup for rendering clouds with SSS on BlenderArtists. There’s another example in the Test section by Cyborg Dragon (without .blend or explanation), but I think fitchmicah’s looks better.

After working on BlenderNation every single day for the last year and a half, it’s time for me to take a break. My personal live is quite busy at the moment: I bought a new house that I’ll need to work on, my own company is doing very well and last but not least, I’m going to be a father in October! :) Sometimes it’s just too hard to also spend 1-2 hours a day on running BlenderNation so I decided I could use a ‘vacation’ from running this website.

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As we all know, Blender is open for customization as it is open-source. Rarely though do we actually see any projects customizing Blender much, but here is one example: NeuroVR editor.

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Five days have already gone by and the first TOSMI is near its end. But hold on tight, although its near its end, its far from over, just read how hectic it has been for the last 3 days.

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Bad news! Due to a remote shutdown and a vacation of the main contact person, BlenderArtists.org will be unavailable until Monday. Roel Spruit, the ‘manager’ of BlenderArtists, assured me that they’ll be back :) If in the mean time you’re going cold turkey and you need to post on a forum, I can recommend the Blender forum on CGTalk.

It seems like every time we mention the Blender Model Repository here at BlenderNation, it’s more bad news. That’s why I’m so happy to bring you good news today straight from the fingers of Dion Moult, who is hosting and maintaining the latest iteration of the BMR. Continue Reading 'Latest Blender Model Repository News' »

You guys must be thinking this sentence is wrong because a lot of Portuguese forums are already available online, true. But all of them are for Brazil and not Portugal, this is the first and only forum available to BlenderHeads that live in Portugal.

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When asked to create a 2D logo of a woman in warrior pose holding a Lotus flower, Robert Peake decided to use Blender. He describes the process of its creation on his website.

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The second day of TOSMI ended and we are really happy about how things are evolving, not only are the trainees catching up but they are also enthusiastic about it, we can surely say they are more motivated then we anticipated.

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