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Blender – Google Summer of Code 2009
38 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on April 21st, 2009 in 3D News, Google Summer of Code
The GSOC 2009 has been announced and with some exciting improvements for Blender. It looks like that if all goes well we may be seeing some significant speed enhancements.
A BIG thank you to Google for supporting Blender again!
Big Buck Bunny character converted to Maya
29 Comments Published by Bart on April 19th, 2009 in 3D News, Peach
Here's an interesting bit of news: someone converted the model of Big Buck Bunny to Maya.
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Article submitted by Yorik van Havre. Chico Ortiz (Thorgal on blenderartists) just made a small but excellent blender game. The game was made for an exhibition called "Santos Dumont, designer" in São Paulo, Brazil, until 3rd of May. The exhibition shows many aeroplane sketches and models (one is full-size), and Chico made a small flight simulation game which runs on 4 screens inside the exhibition, so visitors can experiment flying the planes.
The 2009 Blender F1 Challenge starts tomorrow!
Interview with Nathan Letwory
12 Comments Published by Bart on April 18th, 2009 in Development, PeopleInterview with Ton Roosendaal
44 Comments Published by Bart on April 17th, 2009 in Blender Foundation, People
The fourth issue of the German Blenderzin has been published.
Blender artist Matray has published his demoreel. Very nice work!
Mini-tutorial on landscape sculpting
5 Comments Published by Bart on April 16th, 2009 in Videotutorials
Paul Caggegi from the Process Diary has posted another useful videotutorial, this time on landscape sculpting.
Ott Planetarium Announces The Nature of Science
6 Comments Published by Bart on April 16th, 2009 in Video
The Ott Planetarium have released a new movie for their dome projector, called 'The Nature of Science'. You can see the entire show on their website, but like they say: 'but it's much better in the planetarium!'. Indeed. Any shows planned here in the Netherlands? :)
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New Fiat campaign in Brazil using Blender 3D
16 Comments Published by Allan Brito on April 16th, 2009 in Art
In the past few days a new campaign was released by Fiat to promote a new car. And this time whole web site of the campaign used Blender 3D to create stills and animations of the new car.
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Slightly off-topic, but definitely cool enough to mention: Philippe Hurbain built his own 3D scanner using Lego Mindstorms :)
Libre Graphics Meeting, May 6-9 in Montreal
9 Comments Published by banor on April 15th, 2009 in Conferences
Alexandre Prokoudine writes:
The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual workshop for developers and users of free software graphics applications to collaborate and advance the cause of high-quality free graphics software.
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"Cocedi" (meaning "Neighbours") is a short Russian animation made in Blender. I especially like the intro sequence, which is a good mesh between visuals and music.
You can help the MakeHuman team by creating model morph targers with their new script, makeTarget.
Multiblend Parallel Rendering
28 Comments Published by Bart on April 13th, 2009 in Python Scripts, Toolbox
[Multiblend] connects to multiple computers on your network, and lets Blender render in parallel on each. This will drastically improve your rendering speeds!
Multiblend is a standalone Python script that runs from outside Blender. This means you can even use it on machines that don't have powerful graphics cards, like older computers or servers.
FilmmakerIQ.com have published a list of a whopping 555 Blender tutorials.
Enhance your Renderings With Textured Lighting
8 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on April 13th, 2009 in Tutorials
In this tutorial from Kernon Dillon, he'll show you how simple it is to drastically effect the look and feel of your renders by applying textures to lighting.
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