What is etch-a-ton? This is a new feature in development for Blender, which will allow an artist to sketch out things like armatures!
Etch-a-ton demo videos
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Jump’N Ghost – commercial game made with Blender and Ogre3D
Alessandro Ardolino and Maurizio Cerrato have created Jump’N Ghost, “an arcade videogame developed for the PlayOn amusement machine and ported as demo to all the main computer platforms.”. The game looks cute (check out their gallery) and there’s a free playable demo available for most systems. Unfortunately Ogre3D seems to have issues with ATI videocards under OSX and I can’t play it…
Videos from the Melbourne Blender Society meetup
A handfull of videos from the Melbourne Blender Society meetup have been posted. No images of the audience and atmosphere (I always like that), but some nice excerpts from the presentations.
David Macara wrote:
I’ve just made the recordings from October’s MBS meeting available over at http://www.melbournebs.com/. Should provide some entertainment for Blenderheads that couldn’t make it.
Animation Career report from AnimationMentor
AnimationMentor has released a report about the current state of the animation Industry and it’s future. If you are considering a career in 2D or 3D animation, this report is well worth reading no matter where you live.
You can get the report at AnimationMentor
Jorge Rausch Demo Reel
An impressive demo reel posted by Jorge Rausch, one of the Plumiferos animators.
Open Source for Games Developers – Debate on Business Models, London, Tuesday 28 October 2008
“Own-it in cooperation with Open Rights Group have invited a panel of independent and corporate video games developers, joined by a specialist lawyer, who will discuss alternative business models based on open source technology and whether or not they could influence the future of the games industry.”
More information on this free event and registration here. At the moment of writing there are still 31 seats available.
Gauss Tank – stunning real-time model by endi
While looking for an answer related to the game engine in Blender (I am working on a little platformer game where you control a toadstool mushroom,) I noticed a thumbnail on BlenderArtists to this amazing real-time model.
Here comes the weekend: beer rig
If you make an animated series about a bar you’ll have to animate beer, I guess. The Kajimba team just released a beer rig (that’s a first!), including a nice demo movie. Cheers!
They write:
We just finished a beer rig, plus a few cold ones for ourselves. Made it simple for the sake of the simple animators we have here. The shading of the beer itself is up for debate, seeing as half the studio like theirs blonde, and the other half dark.
Blender Conference Kingsport videos posted
Remember the Blender Conference in Kingsport last August? It took the organization a massive amount of work, but they have now published 11 videos of the sessions – over 7 hours of material in total!
Blender Training in Tokyo, Japan and Kassel, Germany
Hooray! Two more Blender trainings have been announced.
