There is a new web resource for Blender, called Blenderguide. The main objective of this new resource is to collect and categorize websites which talks about Blender. A lot of good links are already available there, all categorized and rated by users. It`s a good place to find tutorials and other stuff related to Blender.
This is my interview at SIGGRAPH 2007 with the founders of AnimationMentor.com, Bobby Beck, Shawn Kelly and Carlos Baena at their booth. AnimationMentor.com is the online character animation school where all the instructors are working studio animators.
Another two sets of tutorials are available at Blender Underground. Now they have part 2 and 3, covering more basic aspects of Blender.
Most Blender users already had some kind of smoothing problems. With these users in mind, Olivier from Feeblemind has published a tutorial, teaching how to solve smoothing problems. The tutorial is very instructive and a must read for new users. Some of the subjects of the tutorial: Normals, Double faces, Set Smooth, Set Solid, Auto Smooth and the Edge Split Modifier.
Do you always wanted to know the secret, to create a good face model? Now you have a chance to know! A user called Len, from the blenderartists forums has published a very impressive face model, with a “.blend” file available to download!
There are a lot of ways to publish animations to the web, like YouTube. But now we have another option in Blender, there is a Script that can export a scene to HTML, and with animations. How? The scene is translated to javascript!
Okay, this is the boring intro that you’ve probably already skipped after reading the headline so, just jump in and check out the exciting work being done by Kai Kostack…
Have you ever heard of Project London? That`s the name of a promising project, which consist of a Independent Feature Film using Blender, for 3d animation and some effect shots. For an independent movie, the animation showed so far, is very impressive!
The theme for the next issue of Blenderart will be “Texturing”. If you want to submit an article or some image for the gallery, it`s time to start thinking about that.
If you ever needed a good texture for a scene, you probably know that good texture library is very important for any 3d artist. Even if most professionals recommend not using pre-made textures, we need something to get started. A good place to get started with textures is a website called Texture Archive, which offers a lot of free textures.
