Tomas Clergiot of France created two TV commercials. He used blender for the Healts Vision Santé commercial, using Blender to model and map the bottles and kitchen. For the Miss Hawaiian Tropic 2007 (Guy’s you’re gonna love this one!) he modeled the girl for the opening and the environment. After effects was used for the colors and floor mapping.
A company from Brazil called Gamion, just used Blender to produce a virtual tour of a few blocks from Sao Paulo.
We are always happy to support and encourage translations of Blenderart Magazine into other languages. So I am happy to announce that Juan C. GarcÃa has written in to let us know that he has started translating BAM into Spanish. This is a huge undertaking so he would welcome help from other Spanish speakers.
I’m really happy to let you know about a successful Blender Course which I taught to one of the biggest Advertising Agencies in the world – Leo Burnett. It lasted 5 days and was taught on-site. This was my first teaching experience, and I wish to share my experience to help other Blender Certified Trainers deliver world-class training on Blender. I want to be honest also about the pitfalls, because that’s also one of the things that I really like about Blender Foundation, they never try to hide weak points, bugs, annoyances, … And I believe that’s also one of the reasons why can Blender make so fast progress!
Well, venomgfx said it would be done and so it was. Blenders’ all-star coder Brecht has done it in record time! Blender now has real-time shadows in the editor and the Game Engine. Continue reading
The new update includes GLSL, and Shape Keys working in the Blender Game Engine. This update also includes various speedups of the BGE. You can get the latest build from graphicall.org.
I wanted to write a quick note to let everybody know that my advance copies of “Bounce, Tumble, and Splash! Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D” have arrived, and I’m very excited with how they’ve turned out! I’ve taken a few snapshots and posted them here on Flickr to give people a sense of what the book looks like on the inside: Continue reading
If your in the process of learning Blender, John R. Nyquist has created a series of videos on tips in using Blender. You can check them out at YouTube.
Ton Roosendaal of the Blender Foundation has just announced that he will be attending along with Andy Goralczyk and Nathan Vegdahl, the SIGGRAPH 2008 conference.
A few days ago, Campbell Barton was interviewed by the guys of The Linux Link Tech Show, about the Big Buck Bunny project.
