The first Release Candidate for Blender 2.44 is now available from blender.org!
Blender 2.44 Release Candidate Now Available
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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Subsurface Scattering Now Part of Internal Renderer
Recently, we posted about a subsurface scattering node that was being developed. Well the good news is that its now integrated into the internal renderer and will be part of the 2.44 release.
‘The Making of Cosmic Balance’, Stuttgart, Germany
Today you can see the team behind ‘Cosmic Balance’ spilling their secrets on how they used Blender and 3DS Max together in the production of their movie. The presentation is at the International FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Realtime and Content in Stuttgart, Germany at the Autodesk tower (Turm B) on Friday 4th of May at 12 o’clock.
New Spanish Blender Book
A new Blender book has been published in Spain. It’s title is “Blender. Curso de Iniciación” (Blender, an introduction course)
Two Workshops by Andy @ FMX
Andy Goralczyk will be giving two Blender workshops on the FMX 07 Conference in Stuttgart this Friday, May 5th.
- From 2 – 3 pm: 3D for Free! Creating High End Computer Graphics The Open Source Way which is a general thing to show off cool blender features and how to use the software without going insane.
- From 5 to 6 pm: Making Elephants Dream – Creating the world’s first Open Movie which tells the exciting story of the creation of… some movie.
Which is the photo and which is the render?
See if you can guess which image is a photo and which is a scene modeled in Blender.
Tutorial: Modeling a Flange
Blender isn’t often thought of as the best tool for mechanical modeling. But some have utilized its excellent modeling tools to produce just about anything they can imagine. And a few have created some excellent tutorials on how they did it.
Blender Movie Project: Flupps
Arondix Animations have just released ‘Flupps’, a short animation about a red ball who has his first encounter with a mirror.
Treatkor’s Junky Material Library
Treatkor has posted a library of 64 materials on the BlenderArtists.org forums. They’re not organized in any way, but you might just find what you need.
SIGGRAPH FJORG! Team Application Deadline
Today is the deadline for applying for the SIGGRAPH 2007 FJORG! contest. Read more.
