Which one is the best render for Blender? Sunflow? YafRay? Indigo? Or Blender Internal? An artist called Hannu Kuisti, asked himself the same question. He was wondering, which render would suit best the needs for architectural visualization, and made a few tests with all those renders.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Blender 2.45 release, which we posted about earlier, is now official! Remember that this is a bugfix release. Having said that, it should still make your life a little-bit easier.
Another great example of Blender art! A very interesting animation used for scientific purposes, created for a company called Sigma Aldrich. The animation is about a process called Molecular Self-assembly.
Once again, a parallel Blender Conference will be held on the North American continent during one week after the Blender Conference 2007 in Amsterdam on october 20th and 21st. This year it’ll be in New York.
