A bit later than usual as I just got back from a week of sun at the Côte d’Azur :)
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Making a Hologram in Blender (Tutorial)
Clément Granjon (aka Weilynn on BA) has made a neat tutorial on how to reproduce the classic 3D hologram style using Blender.
Blender in Naval Architecture
“Having some experience with blender for hobby use, I decided to see if it can be used for creating professional 3D visualizations of a ship design.”
WebComic: Cibertito, Compiling life’s source code
Blender, Inkscape and GIMP (and Ubuntu) have been used as the only tools to produce a new geeky comic which launched today. Mixing 2D characters with 3D environments: Cibertito is the story of a geek teenager and his group of friends in the Freedom neighborhood.
Tutorial – Destroying a Mesh with External Particles
A new video tutorial by Hannu Hoffren (hhoffren) demonstrates how the latest (2.46-2.47) particle engine can be used in combination with the Explosion modifier to create some very interesting effects, mainly for the destruction of a mesh.
Blender Seminar in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
gumanoed wrote:
On September 27th, there will be a 2 hour Blender Seminar in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
MakeHuman
Christoph wrote:
Once started as a Blender-script for the creation of human models, MakeHuman has grown into an independent application. Currently a new release is approaching but they need help from 3d artists with their model database. Anybody interested in helping them out might want to take a look at their blog.
One more timelapse modeling series from Montage Studio
The guys from Montage Studio Just did it again. They have started another great timelapse modeling series, and this time they will model a Steampunk airship.
Blender 2.48 Update
From Ton Roosendaal, Blender Foundation:
At last Sunday’s meeting we reviewed the svn status, and since we soon need a build for the YoFrankie dvd anyway, we just called it time for another release! Not a bugfix release, but all of the goodies from the current svn trunk.
Blender Used for Teaching Physics.
From Francisco M. Gómez-Campos, from University of Granada, in Spain.
“The purpose of this message is simply to let the Blender community know about a project we are developing at my University. We recently uploaded a video in YouTube developed using free software (Blender and Gimp) to be used as a help for the teaching of some concepts to students of Physics and Electronic Engineering.
