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.
“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] 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.
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.
Happy Easter everyone! Here’s a nice Easter animation by Expresso.
This video titled “Journey to the Center of a Tube” is about vacuum tubes that are used in guitar amps. It was created for The Tube Depot and the demonstration animation in this video was done by Jay Phillips using Blender. For you aspiring Blues guitarist, the 6L6 tube gives a nice warm tone and is used in many guitar amplifiers such as Fender and my favorite, Dumble.
Sterling Roth was recently hired by Colt to create demonstration video for Colt show booth this past January. ” All of the models were provided by colt in Pro Engineer format. I animated and textured the weapons and added in other effects. They were rendered in Blender internal with AAO. Total time spent animating this particular animation was about 25 hours, and about 55 hours for all 4 animations in total, minus render times.
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