Here’s a *really* nice form of interactive 3D advertising, and it looks like they did the 3D design in Blender.
Ad Displays 3D Car in Augmented Reality
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
The Emily Project
As much as this sounds like another open source project, it’s not. Rather, The Emily Project is a very impressive life-like human representation by Image Metrics.
Green Button Announces Render Support for Blender!
Green Button has just announced their rendering services for Blender. Using the python script that they provide, you will have a rendering consul inside Blender which you use to upload your file to their servers. They currently have access to over 2000 processors in New Zealand and an additional 1000+ in Australia and they are currently working with some very large data center providers in the US to add more thus giving you major studio sized rendering support.
Teaser for “Le Monsieur, Le Vampire et Renee Marcelle”
Oscar Alvarado (of Gothique Studios) has released a teaser trailer of his new animated short, “Le Monsieur, Le Vampire et Renee Marcelle”, animated by Oscar Alvarado and Martha Vaquera. The video looks quite promising!
New Release Schedule for BAM
Blender Art Magazine (BAM) are adjusting their release schedule.
Ott Planetarium Releases New Fisheye Camera Rig
The planetarium of the Weber State University uses Blender to create content for their full-dome digital projector. Rendering for this screen requires a Fisheye camera, for which they have created and released a camera rig.
Blender NURBS project needs testers
The Nurbana NURBS code is being integrated into Blender and the developers could use a hand!
Game Texture Database
Clark Thames has recently upgraded his website (www.tutorialsforblender3d.com) to include a new game textures section. The textures are all free to download and most come with normal maps.
Blender 2.5 Progress!
Great news! Ton posted an update about Blender 2.5 and it’s sounding great! (Thanks to Tim Suess for the head’s up!) Here’s a little snippet of the report:
Merry Christmas everyone!
Christmas Eve is about to begin here, so let’s dress up BlenderNation with some great Holiday Seasons headers! I picked 27 designs from this weeks contest and put them on the site – almost everyone’s a winner this time! A new one will be shown each hour, so keep reloading to see if you’re in it ;-)
Merry Christmas!
