2008 January at BlenderNation

'Subscribe to comments' Fixed

1 Comment Published by Bart on January 23rd, 2008 in BlenderNation

Minor site update: the plugin that handled email notifications for post comments was broken since the last WordPress update. Well, it's not anymore ;-) It should be easier to keep tabs on ongoing discussions again.

Blender Workshop in Barcelona, January 23-29

1 Comment Published by Bart on January 22nd, 2008 in Education

The University of Barcelona is hosting a five-day basic Blender workshop. Students of the university can earn two study points by following this class, which should make some of you out there envious ;-)

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Blender > ActionScript Exporter

20 Comments Published by PlantPerson on January 22nd, 2008 in Plugins, Python Scripts, Toolbox

Anyone who works with Flash should find this interesting. Blender user Dennis Ippel has created a script which can convert Blender objects in Flash ActionScript 3.0 objects. This allows the creation of realtime-3D rendering within Flash (which is more typically used to render two-dimensional vector imagery). For more information, visit the exporter's official page, or its wiki entry.

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UV/Image Editor Experimentation - Speed painting

22 Comments Published by brian on January 22nd, 2008 in Art, Miscellaneous

DeeVad at Blenderartists recently posted a screen recording of a Speed Painting experimentation in Blender's UV/Image Editor.

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Sun, Sky/Atmosphere, and Aerial Perspective features in development

25 Comments Published by Kernon on January 21st, 2008 in 3D News, Development

Hamed Zaghaghi has been developing these features and they're currently being reviewed by Ton. The results look very promising.

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Making a Spring Rig in Blender (and more)

6 Comments Published by brian on January 21st, 2008 in Tutorials

Blender Underground has been posting their experiences working through Tony Mullen's "Introducing Character Animation with Blender". Its an excellent read that starts here. In addition, recently a detailed Spring Rig tutorial has been posted there that came about while answering a question from the forums. Find it here.

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Peach Media Gallery updates

11 Comments Published by brian on January 20th, 2008 in Blender Institute, Peach

Discovered by Len at Blenderartists. See post here. It seems some new things have been periodically posted in the Peach Media Gallery.

Update??: I don't recall seeing these. Little .ogg videos of some animation tests. Its possible these aren't new, but even if there aren't, someone could have missed them.

Please keep in mind Sago has clarified that this test is an early try and doesn't represent the current state.

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Dream team reunited for Peach

11 Comments Published by brian on January 19th, 2008 in Orange, Peach

The most recent Peach blog post brings some great news to the Peach team. The team has been staring with wide eyes at the approaching headlights of the deadline. Many things have slowed the progress of animating. So the dream team comes in. Peach has hired some old faces to help out.

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2.5 Development Demos available on youtube

59 Comments Published by brian on January 18th, 2008 in Development

Development continues full speed ahead on 2.5. Thankfully keeping us informed some developers have been posting youtube videos of new additions/works in progress as they happen. We thank you for this.

*Note: These are early interface development videos. Consider them as such.*

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Yadra - Yet Another Distributed Rendering App

26 Comments Published by Virgilio Vasconcelos on January 18th, 2008 in 3D News, Miscellaneous, Plugins, Toolbox

Have you just pressed "Ctrl W" to save the final version of that cool new animation of yours? Ready to render?

But, wait, maybe you happen to have some computers over a network. If this is your case, it's a good idea to think about Yadra.

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Apricot Pre-production review workshop

4 Comments Published by brian on January 17th, 2008 in Apricot, Blender Institute

There is a great review on the Apricot blog of a recent workshop that took place discussing the status and plans for the production. Continue Reading 'Apricot Pre-production review workshop' »

SIGGRAPH 2008 Announces New Format for Computer Animation Festival

3 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on January 17th, 2008 in 3D News, SIGGRAPH 2008

To fully represent the growing computer graphics and interactive industries, SIGGRAPH's Computer Animation Festival is expanding into a full-scale film festival that will incorporate curated and competition screenings, discussion panels with filmmakers/artists/producers, and an expansive awards program. In addition, the Computer Animation Festival will be more accessible to the general public than ever before.

Updated: deadline was incorrect; updated from january 31st to january 30th.

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Interview with artist Matt Ebb in Computerworld

4 Comments Published by tom on January 16th, 2008 in Community, Orange, Peach, People

Dahna McConnachie of Computerworld Australia interviewed artist (and developer) Matt Ebb about Elephants Dream the and process of creating an open movie.

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Modeling the Female Body DVD available for preorder

26 Comments Published by brian on January 16th, 2008 in Education, Training Videos

I can tell you this is an excellent DVD. I have seen much of it already and it goes into great detail. Jonathan does a good job of going through the process and giving plenty of step by step info on his workflow so you can easily follow along.

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Blender Foundation Certified Trainer Program Launched

26 Comments Published by Fweeb on January 15th, 2008 in 3D News, Blender Foundation, Education, Professional Services

The Blender Foundation Certified Trainer (BFCT) Program has been officially launched. The 12-member review board for the program has put a lot of effort into getting it off the ground and we're ready to see how well it will work. If you teach or train people in Blender, get your application materials together, because we're accepting applications now!

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French Community Site: Blender Factory

13 Comments Published by Kernon on January 15th, 2008 in 3D News, Community

Here's a French Blender news site that also offers a forum and many tutorials. The tutorials are divided into three categories : Skills, Average, and Expert. You can download all tutorials for free and open account for the helpful forum.