Marco Rapino is doing the coolest experiments with Blender. Last time, he linked his N95′s accelerometer to Blender. Today, he shows how to do real-time laser or object tracking using nothing more than a webcam, a laser pointer and a pen.
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Stay for a week in a space radio observatory in Russia and learn all you can about Blender! Sounds awesome :)
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Pepe-School-Land students are doing some awesome modeling and animation in Blender as evidenced by these videos. The demo reel has a mixture of work done in Blender and other programs and is well worth watching. A Blender icon will appear in the lower left hand corner of the demo to designate work completed in Blender.
The game contest (being run by malCanDo) has been going for a few months now is into the final stage: Voting.
There’s a lot of great game entries to check out and play, so get voting!
You might have seen this in Ben Dansie’s Durian application demo reel (after being selected as one of the final Durian team members), but he has recently come up with a very cool way to make flames and fire using Blender.
OpenArtist is a new Linux distribution. It’s based on Ubuntu but completely tricked out on graphics – and Blender software.
Here’s a good demonstration by Allan Brito of ‘light groups’, a feature of LuxRender that makes it very easy to tweak the settings of the lights in your scene. (Remember to turn on ‘HD’ once you’re over at Vimeo).
The 4th Animarte – International Animation Festival is receiving submissions until September 30, 2009. Animarte is open to animated and mixed media shorts with a duration of 15 minutes or less. There is no entry or registration fee and all animation techniques are accepted.
The Blender Foundation released Blender 2.49a earlier today. Ton Roosendaal writes:
Testing is an art… as usual a release shows the real issues! A lot of work has been done to tackle the reports in AO render, Game Engine and Sequencer especially.
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