So, 2007 has already passed. I’ll close off this year by wishing you all an excellent New Year’s Eve. Before you shut down your computer, get in the mood to party by checking out this *cool* video by Yain Rodrigo Vieyra from Argentina. See you next year!
Follow along with this html-based tutorial to learn how to both model and texture a complete Coke bottle in Blender 3D!
Weightpaint uses a hardcoded range for visualizing weights. To allow users to have more accurate visualisations for what color represents what value, you can now edit a custom range for weights. Also, current Modifiers are a linear stack in Blender and are applied sequentially. With Multi Modifiers, you will be able to mix the results with a weight group.
The Australian band Tycho Brahe has posted a video on YouTube which uses a handfull of Blender animations in the background.
Do you remember Me & Jessie D.? This is an animated television series, produced by Studio 125, which uses Blender for modeling and UV Mapping. And now they posted a teaser of the animation!
Ton Roosendaal presented the first architecture sketches for the upcoming Blender 2.50 during last week’s Blender Developers meeting. He talks about things such as the new Model/View/Controller model and the new event handling model, both of which will make it much easier and cleaner to write new Blender functionality. There’s a *long* report on this meeting on the wiki.
The Blender Institute has started offering Blender courses. The teachers are selected from the artists who are working on Peach and Apricot, and the trainings are held in the Blender Institute training room in downtown, Amsterdam.
An incredible guide, on how to model with precision in Blender was released by Robert Burke. The guide is a PDF file with 151 pages! If you always find yourself in trouble, when you have to model anything with precision, this guide has some very good tips.
Pablo (of the excellent Spanish Blender blog ‘Blender y diseño’) has published a nice little rig called ‘Ojo’. Enjoy it, while I continue celebrating the 2nd day of Christmas (yeah, we have *two* days of Christmas in the Netherlands! ;-)
Fluff up your desktop image with these super “bunny-sized” renders of the completed Peach characters!
