Exporting rigged and animated models from Blender to Papervision3D is now possible thanks to an update of Cast3D, a 3D animation framework library for Adobe Flash in ActionScript3. (Check out this example).
The quality quality of entries was fantastic, and the competition was fierce. Its a pleasure to announce the Blender World Cup winners for 2008…
Blender was featured in last week’s episode of Click – ‘the BBC’s flagship technology programme’. Kate Russel talks about Big Buck Bunny, Elephants Dream and how to get started with Blender.
(Article submitted by Emil Kjaehr, Public Relations Manager of the Game Development Camp)
When high school students from all over Denmark gather at Aalborg University to develop computer games it is likely to be the world’s largest arrangement of its kind. About 50 young men and women are using a part of their summer vacation to learn more about idea development, animation, programming, and not least, cooperation – from Pablo Vasquez and others.
STUDIO XX, Feminist art centre for technological exploration, creation, and critique, is hosting their own Open Game project from October 2008 to June 2009 in Montréal, Canada. The program is built entirely around Blender. They’re still looking for participants!
I caught up with Shawn and Carlos again at this year’s SIGGRAPGH in Los Angeles. We discuss some changes and milestones at AnimationMentor as well as what it’s like to work at a big studio. I did the interview just outside the Expo, in a common area, and well, that always leads to some interesting background noise. You’ll hear Fjorge members screaming “Fjorge” as they wonder the halls.
William Chamberlin has a great set of earth models on his site. He describes his creation process in a 20-page tutorial.
Awesome artwork by Soenke Maeter from Germany. Soenke writes:
I created this one for the BWC2008. The composition is something i payed special attention to. It’s rendered with Blender2.47 internal render and some postpro with Photoshop.
(Click on the thumbnail to enlarge). Original threads on CGSociety and BlenderArtists.
Over the last weeks, we saw three new releases of Blender magazines: the Italian, Russian and German versions. Enjoy!
Article submitted by mangojambo. Cicero Moraes, aka Cogitas3D, is an amazing blender professional, working with Blender since 2005, making architectural visualization, animation and spots for TV. He is always participating in the Brazilian community, helping people at the forums, doing speeches for poor people at the public schools in Brazil. Now he did a free Portuguese Blender E-Book and his texts is really easy to understand.
