Sebastian König has posted some great timelapse modeling and rendering sessions that are available at vimeo for your viewing pleasure. I particularly enjoyed the timelapse for the foxglove challenge. And remember if you are a member of vimeo you can download the original video files.
Renderdemon has posted up an incredible hair test on Blenderartists. I’d say its Blendernation praiseworthy. Nice work renderdemon. Some good screenshot eyecandy as well.
Apart from the fact that Blender is extremely good software, I also view it as a very strong enabling technology: Blender is able to provide people – who would normally not be able to afford 3D training – the opportunity to start a career in 3D.
Most of Africa falls in the above category. Therefore, when I was recently invited as a Blender Foundation Certified Trainer to present a 7-day introductory Blender workshop in Nigeria, I decided to go despite rumours about the country – and was pleasantly surprised by what I experienced there at ground level…
I know you are probably waiting for your Big Buck Bunny DVD or the internet release, but don’t forget about the Apricot project, which is still running. If you want to take a look at some of the new tools, developed for Apricot, a few test builds are starting to appear!
From Jeremiah W.
Hello there! I have posted a tutorial on using the Blender Physics system (aka game engine) to animate falling, tossed, and hard to animate movements with objects. You can see the tutorial here
The second YafRay annual contest has started! If you use Blender 3d and YafRay, this is a great opportunity to put creativity creative energy into an interest project.
“IMAGINE THE PEUGEOT IN THE WORLDWIDE MEGALOPOLIS OF TOMORROWâ€
“Create a Concept Car which is designed to evolve within the cities of the future, whilst retaining the key values of the 21stcentury. The projects should bear Peugeot’s stylistic codes and must contain the following four aspects included in this design competition: environmental awareness, social harmony, interactive mobility and economic efficiency.
Here are two great tutorials about Baking light and normal maps, created by Viktor W., and the tutorials use new features from Blender 2.46!
Do you want to learn how to build a house in Blender? A Blender artist called Vaclav Chaloupka, was kind enough to create an incredible set of three video tutorials, showing the detailed process of modeling a complete house in Blender.
(Chicago, IL) – ACM SIGGRAPH announced the selection of Irish Artist and Director Catherine Owens, best known for her staging and film work with the Irish rock band U2, as a featured speaker for SIGGRAPH 2008 to be held in Los Angeles this August. Owens will present “Giving Technology Emotion: From the Artist’s Mind to ‘U2 3D’,” which details her co-directing and producing experiences during production of the film “U2 3D”, the first digital 3D, multi-camera, real-time production.
