Remember the ‘Color Difference Keying with Nodes‘ by David Weese? Well, David has now produced an hour long DVD teaching you the secrets of successful keying.
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Another Huge Mocap Library
Do you remember the article, about mocap files? Where PlantPerson talks about motion capture technology and point to us a tutorial, showing how to use mocap files with Blender? Well, in this tutorial a very large library of free mocap files is used. We just found another huge mocap library, with a lot of files to download for free.
Blender Workshop in Graz, Austria
Free Blender workshop at the Kunsthaus in Graz. Read more.
Python performance tips
Anyone who’s programmed in Python will tell you that it’s often easy to write a script, but it’s always hard to write an efficient script. This resource from the main Python wiki will teach you how to program for speed and performance.
Free Iris Textures!
Miles Research has developed a professional digital camera for precise imaging of the iris and sclera. To demonstrate the capabilities of their product, they offer a great collection of sample images at very high resolutions. The perfect solution if you need photo-realistic eye textures for your models!
Licensing info included.
Snoopin’ Around: Blender 2.45 Available for Download
It looks like Blender 2.45 has been quietly making its way to download.blender.org. There’s no official announcement from the Blender Foundation about this release yet so we can’t give you any further info. Also, things may still change. But if you’re having a dull weekend go ahead and enjoy!
Blender Training in Vienna, Austria.
Today, Karl Kühberger is hosting a Blender Training in Vienna, Austria. More information.
SIGGRAPH 2007 – Organic Motion’s Sensorless MOCAP
Ton Speaking at PICNIC ’07, Amsterdam
Ton Roosendaal will be participating in two panel discussions at the PICNIC ’07 festival in Amsterdam on September 26th.
NASA Art Contest
NASA has started an intriguing contest which should be of interest to some of you. The contest encourages art & design students to work with engineering students to depict a scene of “life and work on the Moon.” Most of you have wide-ranging interests of course, so chances are that a few of you are well-qualified to try this out.