Monthly Archives: November 2008

CGChallenge 23 – Steampunk Myths and Legends

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CGChallenge have announced their 23rd challenge, themed ‘Steampunk Myths and Legends‘.

Steampunk is the application of advanced steam age technology to a modern or science fiction setting.

This challenge asks you to render traditional myths and legends in the steampunk style using elements of gears, springs, brass and steam power. Re-imagine legendary characters from some of the world’s most ancient stories, such as a steam-powered minotaur, or a Zeppelin-mounted Thor, hurling lightning bolts from the sky.

I could think of a few Blender artists that should enter straight away ;-) Go on then, make us proud!

Blender to RenderMan: Aqsis/Air Depth-Mapped Occlusion using multiple light rigs

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Here’s something we don’t *nearly* write enough about on BlenderNation: the Aqsis RenderMan compliant renderer, and the MOSAIC plugin that allows Blender and Aqsis to work together. Eric Back has just published a very cool sample of what kind of quality you can achieve with these systems – check it out.

Oh! And these guys are aiming at rendering a small part of Big Buck Bunny as well, “the perfect project to really push MOSAIC’s integration with Blender and its ability to efficiently export a large animation.”. Awesome.

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