Have you noticed how quickly the global Blender community seems to be growing lately? A few days ago, we received a link to Blender-an, an Indonesian Blender Community site.
Blender-an, Indonesian Blender Community
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Blender Conference 2007 Call for Participation
The Blender Conference 2007 Call for Participation is now online; the deadline for submissions is September 1st. More information on blender.org.
Ukrainian Blender Modeling Competitions
The Ukrainian Blender community organizes a 3D modeling competition every other day. It looks like fun, even though I’m not entirely sure what those pages say ;-) Thankfully, they’re offering help for people who don’t speak Russian.
Blender Smileys!
The French Blender community BlenderClan has gathered a fine collection of Blender-oriented smilies to be used on BB and forums. Here’s a snapshot of their work.
Splash screen contest for 2.45
There is a new Splash Screen contest for Blender 2.45 at the Blenderartists foruns. This new release of Blender won’t have any new features or tools, just some bug fixes.
Demo Reel by Javier Galan
Javier Galán (a.k.a. Chronoh) created a very slick demo reel with great timing and cool music. Though it has a Flash feel to it, it was done in Blender.
Walk Cycles
If you are trying to learn how to make a natural looking walk cycle, Joeri points us to this site, Biomotion Lab. Biomotion Lab has created a real time walk cycle model where you can adjust the various parameters such as male / female; heavy/light; nervous/relaxed, happy/sad.
Peach Team Chosen
The first six members of the Peach Open Movie project have been chosen and the first workshop has been planned in only seven weeks from now.
Animation “Out of the Box” by AndyD
From AndyD:
“It took two months of evenings to make but is the culmination of two years of messing with the character animation tools in Blender – although he’s a pretty simple model and rig so a lot of the tools weren’t used :)”
Blender used for Cover Illustrations of Mondadori Italian Book Publisher
Since October 2006, Enrico Valenza (EnV) has been really busy working as a cover illustrator for Mondadori. Using mainly a mix of 2D and 3D (of course, Blender and the GIMP) the results are fantastic!
