Fresh Blender News, Every Day
Archive for March, 2010
‘Star Trek: Of Gods and Men’ is an amazing project – officially a ‘fan film’, it is produced by a very professional group of people, including many cast members from the original TV series and movies (see the Wikipedia entry for ST:OGAM for more details on this). The first act (26 minutes) has been released last Saturday.
Of course, such a project leans heavily on special effects. We talked to Bill Thomas, Digital Effects Supervisor of ST:OGAM, and found out Blender played an important role in the production!
Learn Composition from Blue Sky
17 Comments Published by PlantPerson on December 24th, 2007 in Art, Miscellaneous, Tutorials
In the art world, composition is one of the most important elements of an artwork. However, many Blender artists lack formal artistic training, and may not be familiar with either the concept or application of this important aspect of visual imagery. That’s where this handy “tutorial” comes in.
‘Strange Behaviour’ Winner of ‘Best Art Direction’
16 Comments Published by admin on December 22nd, 2007 in Art
Two months ago, we featured Anna Celarek’s animation ‘The Cat’. It has now been selected as the winner in the Best Art Direction category CGSociety’s Strange Behavior contest. Congratulations, Anna! (Don’t forget to check out the winners in the other categories)
Tufts University Online Blender Course
13 Comments Published by PlantPerson on December 21st, 2007 in Education, Training Videos, Tutorials, Videotutorials
Neal Hirsig, a professor at the prestigious Tufts University, has created an online course to teach students to use Blender. The course is available to all for free on Hirsig’s website.
An artist called Gregor Lamche just used Blender to make a manual, on how to build a LEGO Mako model. But what is a Mako? It’s a vehicle from the Mass Effect game, from Bioware.
Do you remember the animations Ian Ball made for the British police? An AVSOM wackomatic, a plasma cannon or a freeze gun all protected the properties of British citizens against poor Keith the Burglar. This time, Barry the Burglar and his mate Dan are in for a nasty surprise!
Claudio Andaur and Leandro Inocencio have published a great little rig called ‘Maloyo’ which contains a lot of clever Python scripting .
MakeHuman is the ‘free (GPL), innovative and professional software for the modelling of 3-Dimensional characters’. It exports in Collada and .obj files, so it plays nicely with Blender. After more than a year, the team has released a major update. Please keep in mind it’s still a Release Candidate, so some features such as characters, poses and icons are still incomplete.
Modeling a Tiny and Toony Fishy Thing
10 Comments Published by Allan Brito on December 17th, 2007 in 3D News
Do you want to know how to model a stylized fish? If you want to know how Pablo Vazquez, also known as venomgfx, creates a stylized model, now you can! At his personal blog, Pablo has published a tutorial showing some of his modeling technique. Continue Reading 'Modeling a Tiny and Toony Fishy Thing' »
Search
About
You are currently browsing the BlenderNation weblog archives for December, 2007.
Longer entries are truncated. Click the headline of an entry to read it in its entirety.Archives
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- February 1700