It took some time to iron out encoding and hosting problems, but now Adam Procter has released his short animation Doljer, which was accepted into the UK filmvestival Filmstock in Luton earlier this year. Adam has also released a whopping 223MB of project files under a Creative Commons license (although I’m not sure which license exactly. Adam?).

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Blender artist Husam has won the third place in 3DTotal’s Stylized Animal challenge “Hyena” with his hilarious picture of an hyena on a pogo-stick.

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A new forum is available on blender.org, for discussing the Blender Foundation Open Projects. There is already some interesting info there, like a message from Ton, explaining the reasons to choose Crystal Space for the Apricot project.

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Some great work by Andy is now visible on the Peach blog. The focus of the post there is on the strand renderer and particle system. The article goes into a good amount of detail describing the process of setting things up. An enjoyable read.

Note: Do to site outages and a few individuals having problems with the .ogg file format I’ve mirrored smaller videos on google video for those interested.
Find them here:
Fur in OpenGL.
Fur in Final Render.

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Chris Smailis (SmaTheGreek) is hosting two Blender classes in Athens, Greece tomorrow and next wednesday.

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Just a quick heads-up: the Blender.org servers (including download.blender.org, ElephantsDream.org, the Peach and Apricot sites) have been down since last night. We’re not sure what’s wrong as all the people with admin access are on holiday at the moment, but we’re counting on some remote assistance tomorrow.

Update: huzzah! The sites are back!

I recently interviewed, VIA the Internet, the actor Chin from the Peach Project. He was a bit agitated during the interview so I only managed to get a short clip before he stormed off the set.

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