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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).
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Published by Bart on
September 29th, 2007 in Tutorials
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.
Continue Reading 'Ambient Occlusion with the Node Editor Revisited' »
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Published by Bart on
September 28th, 2007 in Education
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.
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Published by Bart on
September 27th, 2007 in 3D News, Orange
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?
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Published by Bart on
September 26th, 2007 in Documentation, Repositories, Tutorials
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Published by Allan Brito on
September 25th, 2007 in 3D News
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!
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Published by Bart on
September 25th, 2007 in Blender Institute
Sometime tonight, Project Peach has met its first goal: selling 1,000 copies before October 1st. Congratulations guys!
Remember the Blender party at the Pink Cow in Tokyo recently? (unfortunately we lost the post in the database-crash). One of the events was a VJ show by Blender artist Ekakiya and this show is now available on YouTube. Prepare yourself for an amazing ten minutes of video!
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Published by Bart on
September 23rd, 2007 in 3D News
Here's your Sunday Blender chore: vote for Blender at 'Free' page of the Wired Geekipedia. I don't think it will actually accomplish anything, but it would be nice to see Blender at the top of the list ;-) (For the record, we started with 119 votes)
Update: there are two entries for Blender: 'Blender', and 'www.blender.org'. Please vote for the first one.
Another great example of Blender Art! Now it`s a short movie called Sisike and Matoko, which was produced by Sebastian Lessig. This movie was produced as the graduation project, for Sebastian education in Media Designer Audio and Video.
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Published by Fweeb on
September 21st, 2007 in Art, Blender Foundation
After four (FOUR) months without updates, the Gallery on Blender.org has finally been updated. There were some really great submissions and it took quite some time for us to get through them all. A big thanks goes out to Daniel 'ZanQdo' Salazar for helping out with the updates.
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Published by Bart on
September 21st, 2007 in Art, Community, Conferences, Contests
The Suzanne Awards team is working on a series of short videos that will announce the video clips and they need your help. Download the rigged robot character and submit your animation before Monday, October 1st.
Continue Reading 'Help Make the Suzanne Awards Announcements for October 12th' »
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Published by Allan Brito on
September 20th, 2007 in Python Scripts
Do you remember the short movie Cosmic Balance? An article about this project was published here a few months ago. Well, the development team of this project, Studio Die Versilberte Eitelkeit, just published some really cool Python scripts, used for the production. All scripts are available for download.
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Published by Bart on
September 20th, 2007 in Development
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