The Process Diary August videos released

Paul Caggegi released 2 video tutorials of his character modeling using Blender 2.49b this month. The first one released on August 10th is about the boot tongue and laces, adding more details with extrusion, edge-loops, altering crease weight, and modeling with Bézier curves. The second one from August 22nd is said to be  focusing on getting the hair and teeth. Visit the links to his site for the direct downloads of these videos and more.

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Kite Gen

Igor Sabbetti told us about an Italian television program “Superquark” which features an experimental wind generator with the images of  “Carousel” made by Igor Sabbetti and Riccardo Covino using Blender 2.52, Gimp and Inkscape. They were using blenderRender renderfarm. Some parts of the production were made with 3DS Max and Vray – these were supervised by Luca Bonavita.

Note: see below for a list of Blender appearances in this video.

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The Detail Library

The Detail Library is an open movie project to be used as laboratory for the pupils of the school of arts “Casa dos Quadrinhos” in Brazil and the project only use open source and freeware when needed. They posted a small teaser cutted from their animatic  for a fundraising. On their blog you’ll find interesting artworks, including many beautiful 2D designs to a real 3D sculpture.

Update: The Detail Library committee has contacted us with a few changed – read more below.
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