Morevna Project
submitted by Banor:
The Morevna Project is a very promising open source anime film being made with Synfig, Blender, GIMP, and Krita. I have been following this project loosely recently, and am very interested in contributing.
They are currently working towards a project demo that will showcase a 3 minute preview of the final product. Character design for 6 soldiers is needed at this time.
Soenke Maeter takes us through the process of creating his mystical city for the Blender World Conference.
Nathan has updated the memory problems in the windows version of 2.47, which were causing Blender to crash whenever memory requirements are high. The updated version is now available for download.
Carsten Wartmann, the great writer of many blender books, is now officially writing the second edition of the Blender Gamekit books, the new books will cover the new functionality of the new Blender.
Cleaning up the pipes for another week of Blender goodness!
A beautiful animation by Alex Glawion. Download the Quicktime version (recommended; playable in VLC) or watch in low-res on Vimeo. His demoreel is also worth watching, although I’m not too crazy about the robot.
We talked about Farsthary’s volumetrics work before. He has now teamed up with Matt Ebb (of Elephants Dream and more recently ProMotion studios fame).
Blendenzo teamed up with Clean3D to develop a short game for the Christian Developers Network Speedgame Contest of 2008. Its not very often that we get to see a neatly finished game in the BGE, so its one which is worth checking out.
Allan Brito, one of BlenderNation writers and professor at Mauricio de Nassau(in Brazil), has squeezed in a bit of time to teach Blender users how to complete great architectural works through his site.
If you’re not always online, it can be kind of awkward having to rely on the Blender Wiki documentation (I guess ;-). Next time you’re out hiking, painting the roof or are just without a broadband connection, make sure you have your copy of Marco Ardito’s Blender Wiki PDF with you!
