I guess we should rename ourselves ‘BlendernaZen’ this week – that reflects the feeling I got when I first saw Otávio Tatasoka’s entry to our ‘Design the BlenderNation Header’ contest. I really appreciate the tranquility of this one – I think it makes a great header (especially after the dynamic graphic of Gustav last week!). Congratulations, Otávio! Your image will be on the site until next week.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been quietly making a few technical changes to the site. For those of you who are interested in such things, I did a short writeup of my actions. If you couldn’t care less about web technology, I’m still interested in hearing if you think the site’s speed has improved!
Satish Goda and Shrinidhi Rao will be hosting a 1-hour Blender presentation during the International Animation Day in Mumbai, India on Sunday, October 21st.
Blender Conference 2007: on October 20th and 21st at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn. More information.
This one’s been our todo list for a while and the tutorial isn’t too recent, but it’s a nice technique to experiment with during the upcoming weekend.
If you speak Portuguese, there is a very good set of tutorials for Blender, created by a Brazilian user called tioilmo. All videos are hosted at YouTube, and there are 30 videos available.
Starting October 2007, 23rd Allan Liddle will be hosting a Blender workshop in Cape Town, South Africa. Spread out over six evenings, he will be teaching the basic Blender techniques.
Mancandy is officially released. And it now comes in three tasty flavors.
All the 2007 Suzanne Awards Nominations videos are now available for download from blender.org. Enjoy!
An artist called Cristian Mihaescu has created a really great image named Night of The Cat. This image was created with Blender, Gimp and Inkscape. And now we can check out some of the techniques used to create “Night of the Cat”, since Mr.Mihaescu was invited by the guys at 3dtotal to write an article about it, for their 3dcreative magazine.
