Here’s a resource you may know about already, but still definitely worth a mention! The Blender Open Material Repository is a site with over 200 native Blender materials available for download. Subjects range from typical (Car Paint) to the downright bizarre (Brains).
Blender’s ambient occlusion renderer produces wonderfully lighted scenes at the cost of LONG rendering times. Mike Pan has created a setup in the Blender node editor that will reduces rendering times by a factor of 60 while still giving very acceptable results.
An artist called Enrico Cerica has published a very interesting article, showing how he created the image for his Magic Bullet project. Which is a hyper realistic image produced with Blender and YafRay.
LuÃs Belerique is hosting three introductory Blender workshops in Porto, Portugal in October and November.
CrazyBump creates displacement, normal and even fake occlusion maps from 2D images. It’s free, fast, sports a nice and clean interface, and makes an excellent tool to quickly take your textures to the next level.
Only six weeks ago we spotted a bunch of Blender screenshots in the French Microsoft knowledgebase. Today, we have something better: Microsoft.com turns out to be hosting two copies of Elephants Dream to showcase their VC-1 video codec. Is the software giant starting to appreciate the benefits of Open Content?
Cellstorm has been collecting all kinds of Blender-related information in a FreeMind MindMap, which he has now published online.
Ton Roosendaal will be participating in two panel discussions today. More info.
How Blender features can be compared with other 3d apps? If you always wanted to know that, an article published by Benoit Saint-Moulin at the TDT 3D compares the features of all major 3D apps, and Blender!
Sometime tonight, Project Peach has met its first goal: selling 1,000 copies before October 1st. Congratulations guys!
