The BLENDING LIFE challenge has ended and what a ride! There’s been some amazing entries!
The judges have given their scores which will count for fifty percent of the total score. The other fifty percent will come from you, so they need you to please stop by the contest site and and give your vote!
Blender and Big Buck Bunny have made the 12th place of the annual CG Retrospective! Their description is touching:
Here is a wonderful example of technical and artistic selflessness that in fact built this industry. Well done guys, thank you.
A heartwarming, well-deserved praise for everyone involved! Check it out here.
Stencil maps can help push your model to the next level by allowing you to layer materials exactly as you see fit. This tutorial by Jonathan Williamson, covers how to create a stencil map, applying it to your model in Blender and then using it to layer two different materials via the Material Nodes
Alain Mathez (mcBlyver) has created some companion videos to his rigging tutorials that were featured in the BlenderArt magazine #19. The videos show off what can be done with these rigging examples (a furniture hinge and a catepiller soft track) in real-time. Quite impressive.
Update: Alain has posted an updated version of his tutorial here.
Quick shots of Blender news.
Artist Dolf Veenvliet [macouno] has released a very nice series of patterns, all created in Blender. These patterns all find their origin in the 11 possible regular, and semiregular polygon tesselations. They are inspired by for instance the work of MC Escher, and the tilings in the Alhambra, and Alcázar in southern Spain.
Dragons Tale films have published a series of funny clips featuring a bunch of, err…, snails!
We’re getting ready for Christmas and New Year here at BlenderNation and of course, we’ll need an appropriate header graphic during that time. Would you like to see your work here for a week? The deadline for submission is Wednesday, december 24th, 6pm (GMT+1). Good luck!
Here’s a couple of amusing little animations. They were made earlier this year and feature some mischievous penguins with a serious case of bad luck.
With the latest edition recently published its time again to get your content into the upcoming BlenderArt Magazine. Issue #20 will focus on the theme ‘Make it, Bake it, Fake it!’
