Do you know what an animatic is? If you don`t know, let Sacha, from the Peach team tell you! In this interview started by Campbell Barton, Sacha tells us what an animatic is, and how they are managing the animatics for the Peach Movie.
Microsoft XNA is a set of tools, complete with a managed runtime environment, provided by Microsoft that facilitates computer game design, development and management [wikipedia]. Virtual Realm, the “XBox 360 and XNA Game Programming Resources from Down Under” blog has posted a tutorial on how to use Blender together with Microsoft’s Game Studio Express.
Macouno has published a script to smoooooth your Blender objects. He writes:
This script is an alternative to the mesh smooth function in blender. The mesh smooth function in blender uses only vertex position. This script uses vertex normals, which is why it’s called normal smoothing.
What do you think about cameras in Blender? Well, for K. G. Nyman the camera could be better, so he started to develop a script called BLenses, and now the script is available for download. This script makes the process of matching the actual lens focal length of a real scene, with a virtual scene in Blender, a lot easier. And it works for animations too!
Matt Ebb finally found some time to hack some new Blender code and, as always, the results are impressive. This time, he’s been working on a reflection node and image based lighting.
An artist called Marcos Caballero is using the Video Sequence Editor Blender to create some cool video transitions.
The guys of Montage Studio just released another great video tutorial. This time the tutorial covers the basics of subdivision modeling, to create a simple character. Even for a basics tutorial, the video has some nice tips and tricks for this kind of modeling.
Blender artist Daniel Salazar [ZanQdo] has put together an impressive demoreel of his work. It’s one of the nicest showcases of Blender artwork I’ve seen. Check it out! [Right-click, save as - 55MB Quicktime].
While we’re all waiting for Bassam to finish his fantastic Tutorial DVD, you may want to check out this walk cycle tutorial by Andrew West.
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Ribmosaic is another RenderMan exporter for Blender, but this time with a different approach. Mosaic was conceived to integrate all Blender structure with the RenderMan attributes.
