And not a moment too soon, either. Let me celebrate by posting a bunch of crazy/great/interesting animations I found on YouTube.
The Weekend is Here!
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
1,500th Post!
Yeah, not many people can say that ;-) Congratulations to the entire team for keeping this website running for almost two and a half years already!
On a side-note, last month we *almost* broke the 1,000,000 pageviews barrier for the first time, and I just noticed we broke the 4,500 RSS subscribers barrier today. We’re doing great!
Having said that, the amount of Blender news just keeps increasing and posting only two articles a day just isn’t enough to keep up anymore. We need help!
Libre Graphics Meeting 2008
LGM 2008 will be held from May 8-11th in Poland. This year, the Blender Institute will support Campbell Barton and Dariusz Dawidowsky to join the LGM and do a presentation there about Peach and Apricot. Schedule to be announced.
Call for Content Blenderart #16
Blenderart Magazine is preparing for their 16th issue and they are looking for content. Sandra Gilbert sent in the following call for content:
It’s time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 16 of Blenderart Magazine. In this issue we are focusing on the ‘WOW! factor’.
OSCAR: Free Rigged Character
If you’re learning how to rig a character, take a look at OSCAR. For the faint of heart: OSCAR leaves no doubt he’s a male character ;-)
Quick3D – Free Embedded 3D player
Quick3D is a Java applet for displaying interactive 3D objects on a webpage. It reads 3DS objects which can be easily exported from Blender. Who’s going to create the coolest example with this applet?
Cloning yourself with Blender
Every now and then we happen to see Blender being used in an innovative way, from Desktop Publishing to (it seems) whatever you can think of.
The artist Bert Simons, for example, uses Blender in the process of making very cool papercrafts.
After some thinking, he decided to go a step further:
Blender Image on the Cover of Science Magazine
Blender user Felix is a PhD student in physics at Hamburg University, Germany. Not only did Science accept his paper (and his team’s, I presume), but they also picked their illustration to feature on the cover. I don’t have to tell you which software he used to create the image, do I? ;-). Having your work featured in Science is no small feat, so congratulations everyone!
Indigo Renderer v1.0 Released
The first stable release of Indigo Renderer, since it reached 1.0 is available to download. Actually, this stable release is version 1.0.9.
A Neural Network Using the Game Engine
Here’s one we haven’t seen before: Brandon Marvenko uses Blender’s game engine as a development environment for artificial neural networks.
