2009 January | BlenderNation

Old Key

21 Comments Published by Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) on January 16th, 2009 in Art, Video

Cestmir Peltan (Cestmir on BA) has just finished an interesting little animation. It nicely demonstrates the physics baking and fluid simulations Blender is capable of these days in a very professional looking animation.

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Animation 'Onion' Script

20 Comments Published by Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) on January 14th, 2009 in Plugins

Similar to the ghosting feature found with Armatures, this script makes several ghosted layers of an animation. Its explained best as 'a method to have some sort of ghost image of an animation at keyframes defined by the user'

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Expanded SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival in 2009

4 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on January 14th, 2009 in 3D News, SIGGRAPH

(Chicago, IL) – In response to a successful expanded format in 2008, the SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival will again be open to the public and feature a comprehensive collection of juried and invited screenings that will showcase the most recent advances in computer-generated imagery. In addition, the Festival will feature presentations and panels that focus on the art, science, and technology that are used to create the latest advances in production and projection of digital cinema and visualizations. The festival is also expanding its general call for submissions to include Visual Music and Real-Time Rendering.

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Blendercast by Sagedread Unlimited

13 Comments Published by banor on January 12th, 2009 in Videotutorials

Sagedread Unlimited has set up a video collection of Blender video tutorials, completely free and viewable online. They call it Blendercast.

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Yo Frankie – Level Competition

7 Comments Published by Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) on January 10th, 2009 in Apricot, Contests, Games

Campell Barton (Ideasman42) has started a new contest in the wake of the successful release of Yo Frankie. The aim of the contest is to develop a new level for the game, and there's prizes up for grabs for those who do best!

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Blender makes Animation Magazine's Top 10 Animation/VFX Tools list

48 Comments Published by banor on January 9th, 2009 in Press

Blender was named as one of the Top 10 Animation/VFX Tools by Animation Magazine!

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Blender 2.5 Winter Camp

20 Comments Published by Bart on January 8th, 2009 in Blender Foundation, Development

The Institute for Network Cultures has invited the core developers of Blender to Amsterdam for a 'Blender sprint'.

Winter Camp is an event, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and will take place 3-7 March ‘09 in Amsterdam. A dozen networks (each of which has 5-15 people) have been invited to work on their specific current topics. The Winter Camp will be a mix of presentations and work spaces with an emphasis on getting things done.

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Short film: The Death Grind

38 Comments Published by Bart on January 8th, 2009 in Video

Watching too much TV makes your brain rot. Here's proof in an excellent short film by Endre Baráth [endi]: The Death Grind.

New Music Video by Dono and Frenchman

15 Comments Published by Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) on January 7th, 2009 in Art, Video

The guys who made Tripeace have just released their latest music video. This time the song is "Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais" which roughly translates to "I am here to tell you that I am going". And once again its a animation well worth watching.

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Blender Animation Challenge #1 – Voting Open

11 Comments Published by Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) on January 6th, 2009 in Community, Contests

The first Blender animation challenge, held over at Blenderartists.org, has finished taking entries and is now in the voting stage of the challenge. There's a huge amount of entries, so it will be a bit of work sorting through them to find a favorite to vote for.

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Blender used for hospital design

25 Comments Published by Bart on January 5th, 2009 in Art

The Finnish architects K2S recently won a big architecture competition for the design of a new hospital. The main visualisations were done in Blender. Abel Groenewolt tells about the adoption of Blender in his office.

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BlenderNation now three years old! Help us make a difference

31 Comments Published by Bart on January 3rd, 2009 in BlenderNation

Woah! Three years have already passed since I began a small experiment in blogging :). Time for a birthday present!

Maybe you remember our previous fundraiser where we donated 1 classroom, 4000 hot meals, 2 goats, 1 alpaca and 3 animal care kits to a Third World country? That was great, but when tax time came it became hell for me because I had to sort out all the donations with my bookkeeper ;-)

Still, I want to do something similar again – use the size and enthusiasm of this community to do good for others. Just with less tax headache.

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