Using Blender, Ymer who works for the company QUIRI Hydromécanique located in France has completed a product Illustration of a Hydraulic Lift.
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Pigru – commercial iPhone game
Pigru, a new commercial game by daubIt, designed specifically for the iPod iPhone and iTouch brings you a 3D world where you rotate the screen to solve the picture puzzle.
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CPU Speed Tests for INTEL and AMD Cores
If you are considering purchasing a new computer you may want to check out these results on CPU speeds posted by Anandtech for both the INTEl and AMD chipsets. The results are based on Blender 2.48a.
Artist feature – Marcin Wodzynski
SIGGRAPH 2009 Seeks Live Real-Time Video Game Content
Chicago, IL) – As part of the SIGGRAPH 2009 expanded focus on video gaming, this year’s Computer Animation Festival will dedicate a segment of the Festival specifically to real-time rendering projects. The top selections will be played and demonstrated live on their respective platform (X-Box 360, PS3, PC, etc.).
The real-time work will have its own jury of industry professionals and experts. Entries will be judged on creativity, innovation, performance and most importantly, the ability to render in real time in front of a live audience during the Computer Animation Festival.
More Snail Stories!
Dragons Tale Films has released their latest in a series of snail films, two funny animations that were rendered using GreenButton.
Blender, HipHop and Curry. Tonight in Lancaster, UK
Update from Farsthary
It’s hard to miss the volumetrics work that Farsthary (Raul Fernandez Hernandez) and Broken (Matt Ebb) are working on. I contacted him and asked for an update on his work. Here’s his report.
Seastead Design Contest
The Seasteading Institute (TSI) is looking for creative and talented designers to construct a seastead using 3-D modeling software. A seastead is a floating platform that allows people to permanently settle the ocean as they do land. Professional naval engineers have already designed a bare platform. What you build on the platform is up to you. It may be a hospital, a casino, a residential community, a cricket stadium, or something entirely different. Be creative!
Dono and Frenchman Music Video : The Making Of
Earlier this year we featured a very impressive music video by Dono and Frenchman (see the article here). Now the team has done it again, by providing us all with an amazingly detailed ‘Making Of’ which is quite comprehensive, to say the least.

