Here is a great tutorial on how to do camera tracking in Blender, using the Voodoo camera tracker. The Voodoo software can estimates camera parameters, like position and rotation and reconstructs a 3d scene from image sequences.
All the SoC 2008 projects are really cool, but a lot of people are expecting the integration o Freestyle with Blender for a long time, and now that Maxime Curioni is working on the integration, the expectations are increasing.
Do you know how to use the new features in the recently released apricot branch? If you want to know, just take a look at this great video tutorial, showing some great new tools for snapping, library browsing and baking.
Do you remember Zanno? He was on the Blender 2.36 splash screen. Pablo Vazquez (AKA VenomGFX), the creator of Zanno, just published a great video tutorial, applying the new Blender physics (Particles and Soft Body) to Zanno.
One of the coolest scripts that came along with Blender 2.46, is the Trees From Curves. This script was developed for the Peach Project, to create trees and brushes. If you want to know the basics of how this script works, Ideasman42 has produced a video tutorial, showing the basics to create a tree model.
A very good set of video tutorials about Blender has been published by Jason Welsh, an experienced producer of training videos for cg.
I know you are probably waiting for your Big Buck Bunny DVD or the internet release, but don’t forget about the Apricot project, which is still running. If you want to take a look at some of the new tools, developed for Apricot, a few test builds are starting to appear!
The second YafRay annual contest has started! If you use Blender 3d and YafRay, this is a great opportunity to put creativity creative energy into an interest project.
Here are two great tutorials about Baking light and normal maps, created by Viktor W., and the tutorials use new features from Blender 2.46!
Do you want to learn how to build a house in Blender? A Blender artist called Vaclav Chaloupka, was kind enough to create an incredible set of three video tutorials, showing the detailed process of modeling a complete house in Blender.
