Here’s a use for Blender that you haven’t seen before: the Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver, BC, Canada, has been quietly working with Blender and the Blender Game Engine to produce scientific data visualizations on the effect of fishing policy on fish populations. In addition, they’re looking for summer interns who can work with Blender.
From the creators of GraphicAll.org comes a slick new online tool for sharing programming code and text in many different formats, complete with syntax highlighting! Of particular interest to the Blender community is its built-in support for the Blender API.
Have you ever tried to use the script to integrate Blender and V-Ray? If you don’t know how to use it, now there is a great video tutorial on how to use them.
I met Roy Simmons about two years ago when I was in London for work. He then showed me a training DVD that he had created. The content of this DVD is now available online for free.
Version 0.46 of the open-source vector application has been released, and it has a pretty strong set of new features. I’ve used this program a fair deal myself, and I have to say that this update (or application in general) is a must-have. Do take your time to download and experience inkscape for the first time if you haven’t used it before, or enjoy the new features if you’re a more experienced user.
You just MAY have noticed that the Blender.org webserver has been giving lots of ‘Internal Server’ lately. The server, which also hosts the Peach and Apricot blogs, is experiencing high traffic levels lately because of all the attention for Big Buck Bunny.
Boring site update: we upgraded our WordPress installation to the latest version. If run into any weirdness (new weirdness, that is ;-) let us know!
Interesting site update: we now support Gravatars. To have your gravatar shown in your comments (see my comment below), sign up on Gravatar.com and create an account.
Pablo Vazquez [VenomGFX] will be joining the Apricot team next week as their new Lead artist. Former lead artist Qareeb left the project for personal reasons. Adding Pablo to the team should definitely increase the project’s wackiness! With some luck, he’ll be in Amsterdam just in time to be at the Peach Premiere. Looking forward to meet you there, Pablo!!
This issue covers animation basics and beyond with a variety of articles and tutorials that will help you take your animation from Okay to Wow!
The Blender Material Repository has its one-year anniversary coming up and they plan to celebrate it with a contest!
