2008 March at BlenderNation

Two Quick and Cool Video Tutorials

29 Comments Published by Virgilio Vasconcelos on March 23rd, 2008 in Community, Tutorials, Videotutorials

Wanna learn two very cool things with two short video tutorials?

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Free Fonts

12 Comments Published by Bart on March 22nd, 2008 in Repositories

Peaceloveandhappiness.org offers (amongst other things) a neat collection of freely downloadable fonts. They don't offer license details for each font - you'll have to check that yourself for each font. Enjoy!

Watch the ManCandy DVD Streaming or on BitTorrent

48 Comments Published by Bart on March 21st, 2008 in Blender Institute, Videotutorials

As you may know, Bassam Kurdali's excellent ManCandy FAQ DVD is published (like everything else the Blender Institute produces) under a Creative Commons license. Among other things, this means you're free to distribute or download it. Some people did this and the reactions were, well, not good. I talked to Bassam to find out how he felt about us offering download links.

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Character Modelling a, eh, Mouse?

11 Comments Published by Bart on March 21st, 2008 in Tutorials

Following up on Endi's Sculpt tool tutorial earlier this week, Frederik Storm has published a highly detailed character modelling tutorial. It's an intermediate-level tutorial, so you may first want to learn some basic concepts by digging around this site (see the related post and search function) or the Blender Documentation Wiki.

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Kerkythea Echo Has Been Released

6 Comments Published by brian on March 20th, 2008 in 3D News, Development

Kerkythea Echo has been released. If you haven't heard of Kerkythea its a flexible and powerful free rendering engine now capable of ray tracing, Photon Mapping and Metropolis Light Transport.

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Blender as a Job Requirement

22 Comments Published by Virgilio Vasconcelos on March 20th, 2008 in 3D News, Community, Miscellaneous

If you are a CG professional looking for a job, it is not that usual to see Blender in the requirements list. But maybe things are going to change…

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Blender and the Google Summer of Code 2008

7 Comments Published by Allan Brito on March 20th, 2008 in 3D News

It`s that time of the year again, the Google Summer of Code 2008 is on! And of course Blender will probably be there, with more great projects.

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Big Buck Bunny Poster

13 Comments Published by Bart on March 19th, 2008 in Peach

While you can't see the movie yet, you can now at least put a bunny-sized poster over your bed! Just grab the new press kit from the Peach site. Oh, and you'll need a bunny-sized printer as well, I guess ;-)

Big Buck Bunny - Watch the Trailer!

75 Comments Published by Bart on March 18th, 2008 in Art, Peach

Watch it online below, watch the HD streaming version here, or download a high-resolution version from the Peach site.

Awesome! I keep getting goosebumps :) Excellent job guys, good luck with the last bits!!

Three Funny Animations from David Ward

14 Comments Published by Kernon on March 18th, 2008 in 3D News, Art

It's great that Blender is really starting to be used for more animation! Here are three animations created by David Ward.

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Flex Them Muscles

45 Comments Published by brian on March 18th, 2008 in Development

That is right. A developer is working on a muscle simulation system for Blender. Its currently in pre-pre-development. But the developer seems pretty steady at working on it. Continue Reading 'Flex Them Muscles' »

SIGGRAPH's International Animation Competition Opens to Public

6 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on March 18th, 2008 in 3D News, SIGGRAPH 2008

(Chicago, IL) - ACM SIGGRAPH officially announced the opening of submissions for FJORG! - the International Animation Contest taking place at the upcoming SIGGRAPH conference, 11 through 15 August 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

FJORG! is an "iron animator" event in which competing teams from around the world have 32 hours to create a 15-second, character-driven animation while adhering to at least one of two themes and facing multiple distractions. The online submission system is now open and submission and uploaded materials are due by 7 May 2008. Submissions are open to the public.

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Free Blender Workshop - Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 19th.

5 Comments Published by Bart on March 17th, 2008 in Education

The Alpha Channel School is preparing a Blender seminar in São Paulo Wednesday, March 19th.

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Modeling and Concepting With the Sculpt Tool

27 Comments Published by Bart on March 17th, 2008 in Tutorials

Endre Barath [endi] sent in this tutorial on how to create organic models using multi-res meshes and the sculpt tool.

Movie Project: The Filthy Spoon

4 Comments Published by Bart on March 16th, 2008 in Art

Cory Taylor and Jeremiah Warren are working on an animated short film called 'The Filthy Spoon'. It'll be produced almost completely in Blender and while they're working on it they're maintaining a production journal. It's interesting stuff to follow.
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