A quick and easy solution on how to render a Normal Pass out of Blender that will work with the ‘Normality’-plugin in After Effects. Blend file included.
Rendering a Normal Pass for use with After Effects ‘Normality’
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Monthly Archives: August 2009
University of Grenada, Spain: Oscilloscope Instruction
The University of Granada, in Spain use Blender to create educational material for their courses. Last year, they published a video on Solid State Physics. This year, a video that instructs students on the use of an oscilloscope.
Amazing Animation Tales
The Argentinean studio McFly Studios is working on a series of short 3D films using Blender. Jorge Rausch (of Plumiferos fame) reports.
Blender Developers Meeting Notes
Today’s Developers meeting notes: 2.49b release around the corner? Blender 2.5 update, Durian feature list and Durian community involvement update.
Blender 2.5: Point cache editing
Another tasty preview of Janne Karhu’s [Jakha] upcoming point cache editing tools for Blender 2.5. As of now, you can not only edit/comb particle systems, but also soft body and cloth simulations. Stop drooling, please.
New York City Blender User’s Group: Sat. Sept. 12th, 2pm
The New York City Blender User’s Group is holding a meeting at NYU Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 2 pm in Roger’s Hall. (Just go there and look for the signs for which room)
‘Havoc’ wins first prize in Meccano Mad Movie Challenge
I’m pleased to announce that ‘Havoc’, the live action/3D movie created by teenage filmmakers from New Zealand, has won the overall competition and also got the prize for best special effects.
Sumit Sarkar’s Hindu art and video tutorials
British Blender artist Sumit Sarkar has published a timelapse video of the creation of Ganesh, a Hindu deiti. He also created twelve extensive video tutorials on character creation. You may remember Sumit from his live ‘Blender, HipHop and Curry’ performance earlier this year.
Developing Visual Literacy in the classroom with Blender
The Macquairie ICT Innovation Centre in Sydney, Australia has published a series of freely introductory video tutorials for high school students.
Two new tutorials on cmiVFX by Sebastian König
Sebastian König has created two new video-tutorials for cmiVFX. The topics are unwrapping+baking and texture-painting. Note: cmiVFX provides on-line streaming video tutorials – not DVD’s.
