Every month for the last few years, the great Shawn Kelly (senior animator at ILM and co-founder of Animation Mentor) has been sharing his knowledge with cool articles called just “Tips & Tricks”.
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Monthly Archives: March 2008
ATi Slowdown Explained
Do you have an ATi videocard and has Blender become unusable on Windows? Nathan Letwory has found that downgrading your drivers could be the answer.
The Brecht van Lommel Fan Club
Rule #1: Don’t talk about The Brecht van Lommel Fan Club. Eh.. wait a moment..
Creature Factory DVD Teaser Posted
Andy Goralczyk showed an early teaser for his Creature Factory DVD last October at the Blender Conference in Amsterdam. The audience was wowed but the project remained a bit of a mystery for the rest of the community. Until now – Andy has posted the BConf video on YouTube. Enjoy!
A (first) introduction to architecture modeling with Blender
Here’s an excellent tutorial by Yorik van Havre for modeling a High Rise Building
From Yorik:
“This tutorial is a general but step-by-step introduction to quick architecture modeling with Blender. It is focused primarily on architects who never really used Blender but know some 3D and who want to see how Blender can be used for their particular work.
Improve the Quality of Your Renders using Tone and Gamma Corrections
You’ve rendered your scene and everything looks great! But, of course, there’s usually more work to be done to really push the rendered results to something that can truly be called “finished”. The subject of post-processing could fill volumes of books and many online resources often leave you with more questions than answers. Here’s a tutorial on Tone and Gamma Corrections that should help to answer some of those questions.
Site Changes
As we have over 1,400(!) posts on this website, I’ve been looking for ways to make readers (especially new readers) more aware of the wealth of information that we offer. After some tinkering we now have two new functions: first, a tabbed box on the homepage that presents the latest posts in our most popular categories. Second, the ‘related posts’ now also shows a thumbnail for each post.
Animated Action Comedy – “Da New Guys: For The Winnings”
This 15-minute short film is packed with so many reasons to like it. The level of graphic detail is well-suited to the style of animation and storyline…really good stuff.
The Power of Open Content
Here’s a short story of one of those things that make me proud: the interview ‘The Future of Blender‘ has been translated into six languages! This happened completely spontaneously, without any action from our side. I can only conclude that Open Content really works, and that DotSub.com is an initiative that fits Open Content like a glove.
While I’m finishing this, I notice an email from gumanoed who mentions that the Russian Blender community have translated BlenderArt Magazine #12 into Russian. Awesome.
Cheesasaurus Rex (commercial illustration) for Kraft
Matt Ebb, one of the lead artists on the Elephants Dream project, has been busy creating commercial illustrations using Blender.
