Bart | BlenderNation

CG Cookie launches Blender Cookie

10 Comments Published by Bart on October 24th, 2009 in 3D News, Education

Videotutorial provider CG Cookie have spun off a Blender-only service earlier this week: Blender Cookie. I talked to Wes Burke about this project.

Continue Reading 'CG Cookie launches Blender Cookie' »

chromanid

46 Comments Published by Bart on October 23rd, 2009 in Video

Very uncomfortable yet intriguing to see; I kept thinking of Elephants Dream while watching this.

New full-time Blender developer: Matt Ebb

56 Comments Published by Bart on October 23rd, 2009 in Blender 2.5

The Blender Foundation have received sponsorship to hire a full-time Blender developer for 9 months to work on Blender 2.5. If the project goes well, they will pay for another period to work on other Blender projects. Ton just announced that Matt Ebb (Blender coding/animation guru) has agreed to fill the position. The sponsoring party remains undisclosed ("but it's not Steve Jobs, don't worry!").

Blender Conference Live Video

29 Comments Published by Bart on October 23rd, 2009 in Conferences

The Blender Conference 2009 can be followed live here (Quicktime or VLC required). A full overview is available on the website of De Balie (page auto-translated from the original page in Dutch). Enjoy! BlenderNation will be at the scene tomorrow and I'll try to make a decent video report of the event.

Blender icon for OSX

19 Comments Published by Bart on October 23rd, 2009 in Miscellaneous

Joeri Kassenaar has created a Blender folder icon for OSX users. Nice and clean.

Blender workshop, Alcantarilla, Spain

3 Comments Published by Bart on October 22nd, 2009 in Education

A new Blender workshop in Alcantarilla, Spain with two famous Blenderheads: Pablo Vazquez (Venomgfx) and
Claudio Andaur (Malefico)! Date is 9-10 November.

Continue Reading 'Blender workshop, Alcantarilla, Spain' »

Building a Blender Bookshelf

7 Comments Published by Bart on October 21st, 2009 in Books

Renderosity features a *long* article about Blender books.
Continue Reading 'Building a Blender Bookshelf' »

Blender workshop, Orleans, France

0 Comments Published by Bart on October 21st, 2009 in Education

French non-profit organisation Labomedia has hosted a number of Blender classes in the past. Their next one is planned from 26 to 30 October 2009.
Continue Reading 'Blender workshop, Orleans, France' »

3 Video Tutorials: Creating a 3D Cartoon Hand

10 Comments Published by Bart on October 20th, 2009 in Videotutorials

Blender Newbies have published a three part video tutorial on creating a low-poly cartoon hand.

Links

Seattle BUG report, next meeting announced

6 Comments Published by Bart on October 19th, 2009 in Usermeetings

Oscar Baechler reports on last week's Blender User Group meeting in Seattle and announces the next one.

Continue Reading 'Seattle BUG report, next meeting announced' »

Blender Tattoos

20 Comments Published by Bart on October 17th, 2009 in 3D News

Paul Fitzpatrick uses Blender template files to generate interactive Flash content for websites. His latest experiment is a tattoo previewer.

Continue Reading 'Blender Tattoos' »

Blender 2.50 material library – request for submissions

76 Comments Published by Bart on October 16th, 2009 in Blender 2.5

Blender 2.50 will contain a materials library 'out of the box'! That's a very nice feature if you ask me. A call for materials has been posted on the forums.