Archive for February, 2010



Community News » Rigging a Pupil for Dilation (and 49 more)

Check out Shawn Kelly’s lastest animation tips on Animation Mentor’s new Tips & Tricks blog. In his first entry, Shawn talks about workflow and process. The blog complements a Tips & Tricks column written by Shawn Kelly, Animation Mentor cofounder and senior animator at ILM, that’s published in the monthly Animation Mentor newsletter.

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Just wanted to send a big hello to all you Blender Nation folks! I had the opportunity to meet Ton Roosendaal last year at Siggraph. While we were talking, I remember mentioning that with the power of open-source communities like yours, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the world was stunned by a true blockbuster film someday, created by people collaborating in their garages all over the world.

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I’m happy to announce that Eunice Park of Animation Mentor will be writing for BlenderNation about the industry and as a liaison to AnimationMentor.com. She will be giving us first hand information such as news letters , tips and tricks from Shawn Kelly and others at Animation Mentor.

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Here is a great tutorial created by Michael Jones, showing how to model a female head. It’s not a time lapse, actually the whole tutorial has more than one hour of video!

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Dunga The Caveman

This animation by Jorge Rausch is short, at only 33 seconds long but a very funny gag. Also check out his Negrito Returns. I don’t know what he’s saying, but it’s commical just the same. Jorge shows that he has a good sense of timing and well placed arc movements in the animation.

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Apollos has two well written tutorials for using nodes on his site. You can check them out at at BlenderUnderground

Gaute Neslein Korsnes wrote to tell us about a Norwegian blender community site. Blender3d.no.

It’s certainly fun to see all these Blender sites popping up around the world.

I was just looking at the site stats, BlenderNation is viewed in 215 countries and territories.

Win a plastic Petunia!

macouno is running an informal contest. Something that’s just for fun, and the rules are loose.

“This week I received something rather nice in the mail. An absolutely gorgeous prototyped print of the original Petunia model from the guys at www.shapeways.com and I can’t stop looking at it. It’s rather nice to have a figure you can actually hold. But I decided I’ll give it away!”

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We all know very well the great tutorials from Montage Studio. And now they are offering some free models to download as well! The first one is a male body model.

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This extensive tutorial set, created by the renowned Blender artist Andy Goralczyk, teaches artists how to craft a fully finished 3D animated scene. Tracking the evolution of an idea from creation to final render – and beyond. The result of the tutorials is an epic 90 second trailer.

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