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Like all open projects by the Blender Foundation, project Durian will be partially financed pre-selling the movie, it's assets and extensive documentation and (video-) training material on DVD. If you pre-order before september 15th your name will also appear in the movie's credits!
The Durian blog now has a cool live sales-thermometer to see how they're doing. Did you order a copy yet?
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We've mentioned this before, but I think it's important enough to mention it again: the Blender 2.5 overview page contains everything you need to know about 2.5 except the release date. It is regularly updated so it's a great source of information.
Report: Blender Classes in Maryland, US
14 Comments Published by Bart on July 30th, 2009 in Education
Avery Lanier reports on a training in Maryland for kids of 7-16 years old.
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RenderPal render management system updated, discount
12 Comments Published by Bart on July 29th, 2009 in Toolbox
RenderPal V2 is a professional Render Management System, dedicated to distributed rendering across large render farms. From the artist's workstation to the rendering machines, RenderPal V2 takes care of the entire rendering pipeline. It supports more than 25 renderers and compositing applications, including Maya, Mental Ray, XSI, 3D Studio MAX, Nuke, Cinema 4D, Shake, After Effects, Realflow, Lightwave and of course Blender.
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The macfanboy universe is buzzing with rumours of a new tablet pc. Take a look at this video and pay attention to the last scene!
3D Skybox in the Blender Game Engine
10 Comments Published by Bart on July 28th, 2009 in Python Scripts
Christiaan Bakker [AniCator] presents a clever script to size and orient a 3D skybox around your game engine scene.
Blender Shop/SVN/Maillist server down, back up
7 Comments Published by Bart on July 28th, 2009 in 3D News
What turned out to be a faulty power cable caused a bit of a panic yesterday as it brought down Proog, the server that hosts the Blender e-shop, SVN and maillists. With our regular sysadmin on vacation and Ton working against Siggraph, Durian and 2.5 development deadlines, the timing was just great! We all feared that the disks had crashed but Justa, sysadmin at our host XS4ALL, noticed the loose wiring. Hurrah!
Google O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. Gerhard Völkl has created a script to export Blender content directly to it.
'Air Race' Flash game art made with Blender
6 Comments Published by Bart on July 27th, 2009 in Games
Matica.com created a simple air race game and used Blender for the game art.
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Benoît Saint-Moulin is a teacher of interactive 3D technologies at the Belgian school Jacquard Infographie. He and a team of four students developed a game using a combination of tools including Blender, 3DS Max and the Gimp. They actually built an arcade machine around it with an innovative interface.
Realtime Stone with detail maps in Blender
15 Comments Published by Bart on July 25th, 2009 in Videotutorials
This 45 minute video tutorial by Pelle Johnsen takes a simple stone to carefully illustrate the process of applying several UV maps to a real-time object.
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An interesting primer on Open Source and Blender for Spanish readers. I can't judge the quality of the contents, but it certainly looks like an extensive piece of work that could be useful to many people.
SIGGRAPH 2009 Adds New Focus on Music & Audio
26 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on July 24th, 2009 in 3D News
SIGGRAPH is known worldwide for showcasing some of the most innovative and groundbreaking visual and interactive content. This year, an added focus will highlight music and audio in their significant relationship with computer graphics and interactive techniques.
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A new issue of the Russian Blender-Empire magazine has been released.
Four new Big Buck Bunny sightings for you today.
Kajimba Annecy 2009 – trailer
65 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on July 23rd, 2009 in 3D News
This Kajimba trailer is a compilation of the various project clips that they've already released and a few that I hadn’t seen before. It has a folksy feel to it and the animation, characters, textures are excellent as usual. I found it very funny as it plays well to my crude sense of humor. Hopefully they'll get it funded and we can see a completed project in the near future.
Warning: Adult language and humor
BlenderGuru.com writes:
Well known around the Blender community for his abstract and unique looking work, Robert Tiess is a talented artist that continues to produce amazing work at an alarming rate. His work is an explosion of colors and emotion that is not only visually appealing, but also tells a story. Robert gives us tips on the insight and thoughts that goes into creating his stunning renders.
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Stereoscopic Rendering in Blender
27 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on July 22nd, 2009 in 3D News
After searching around for a stereo camera technique Sebastian Schneider decided to create his own version. Time to get out your 3D glasses again.
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