Tony Mullen writes:
Hi there,
Not sure how newsworthy this really is, but I wanted to share the fact that Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir, who’s generally a pretty credible movie critic, has just released his comprehensive top movies of 2010 and The Secret of Kells (made in part using Blender) is listed as number 18 (out of 164)! To put that in perspective, see that he lists Toy Story 3 way down at 59 and Despicable Me at 91.
Note: the list is being updated. At the moment it’s #19
Reynante Martinez’s nice compositing breakdown
A reader tips us off to this thread on Blender Artists where Cessen (AKA Nathan Vegdahl) was cooking 2 video demonstrations of some improvements on the Rigify system.
PS. Nathan is available for hire.
Luca Pinciani writes:
The ninth issue of Blender Magazine Italia released! 48 pages full of articles, tutorials, makings of and much more! It can be read and downloaded from Blender Magazine Italia.
Links:
The schedule for the 2010 Blender Conference is now on-line. Over 60 sessions are planned, during three days.
Sebastian König writes:Hey guys! Finally it’s finished! My new tutorial “Blender 3D Compositing” is now available at cmiVFX.com. I know, I promised a launch for september, but it took longer than expected.
Dynamic Paint was mentioned here a few times. The developer, Miika Hämäläinen, has now published a new tutorial “Dynamic Paint Guide” on his site following the beginner’s Dynamic Paint Basics one he made last August. The new tutorial focuses on its settings and also includes a few videos.
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Cause of War is a turn-based 3D game for PC. Modeling and animations were done in Blender. Its producer Robin Flodin tells us that they also made some Blender tutorials on their website.
Alexandre Prokoudine writes:
Libre Graphics World published an interview with David Revoy who did an awesome job as both art director and concept artist of “Sintel” short animation movie. David talks about using free graphics software on deadlines, use of experimental tools like Al.chemy, his involvement in MyPaint project and, of course, work on “Sintel”.
Joseph Eagar logs:
Implemented a new “super knife“. Activate with k. Holding CTRL will allow extended cutting ala old lines mode. Confirm with enter and escape. You cannot cancel, btw, you can only confirm (and undo later if you want). Hopefully I’ll support undo within the tool soon.
- Supports cutting edges, into faces, etc. You can pretty much do whatever you want. Will snap to vertices too.
- Note that if you cut into a face, it must be valid topologically when you press enter to confirm.
- It’s pretty and graphical :)
- You can only cut visible geometry.
- UVs/vcols are a little buggy still
Now, thou shalt all cease and desist all lack of motivation for
testing! No longer shall users put off testing until “it’s cooler”!
