Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb/shadowdragon) of Montage Studio will be teaching about modeling a character in a series of 3 live classes, each 3 hours long, all at Blenducation. The first class starts Saturday, February 28, with an entry fee of $20 (U.S.) for the class.

Continue Reading 'Blenducation Series with 9 Hours of Jonathan Williamson!' »

Two weeks ago I attended my first Blenducation class, taught by David Hickson (Dipingo) himself. The class cost 5$ and was on particle hair (and an array of other useful tools, such as texture painting, animated particle hair with softbodies, basic UV mapping, and so forth.)

At the end of the class, Dipingo came up with an idea: "We'll have a particle hair animation contest!" Well, he gave us two weeks to complete our entries and now the contest submissions have been sent in, so it's your turn to vote for the winner!

Continue Reading 'Blenducation Particle Hair Contest – Vote Now!' »

Pigru, a new commercial game by daubIt, designed specifically for the iPod iPhone and iTouch brings you a 3D world where you rotate the screen to solve the picture puzzle.
Continue Reading 'Pigru – commercial iPhone game' »

Dropping by BlenderArtists, I noticed some of the featured artwork and decided to check it out.  Here are three works by Marcin Wodzynski (Marcin.)  I also did an interview with him.  Thanks, Marcin!

Continue Reading 'Artist feature – Marcin Wodzynski' »

Guess what?  Another great artist is using Blender in his workflow!  His name is Heiko Klug (Jesar,) and PSDTUTS recently did an interview with him.  Heiko Klug is simply inspirational!

Continue Reading 'Heiko Klug featured on PSDTUTS' »

Phil McCoy of Project London has recently uploaded a new video clip featuring special effects shots from the Project London film, showing the live action footage and 3D animation composited together!

Continue Reading 'New Project London Clip' »

Sagedread Unlimited has set up a video collection of Blender video tutorials, completely free and viewable online.  They call it Blendercast.

Continue Reading 'Blendercast by Sagedread Unlimited' »

Blender was named as one of the Top 10 Animation/VFX Tools by Animation Magazine!

Continue Reading 'Blender makes Animation Magazine's Top 10 Animation/VFX Tools list' »

As much as this sounds like another open source project, it's not.  Rather, The Emily Project is a very impressive life-like human representation by Image Metrics.

Continue Reading 'The Emily Project' »

Oscar Alvarado (of Gothique Studios) has released a teaser trailer of his new animated short, "Le Monsieur, Le Vampire et Renee Marcelle", animated by Oscar Alvarado and Martha Vaquera.  The video looks quite promising!

Continue Reading 'Teaser for "Le Monsieur, Le Vampire et Renee Marcelle"' »

Great news!  Ton posted an update about Blender 2.5 and it's sounding great!  (Thanks to Tim Suess for the head's up!)  Here's a little snippet of the report:

Continue Reading 'Blender 2.5 Progress!' »

Alain Mathez (mcBlyver) has created some companion videos to his rigging tutorials that were featured in the BlenderArt magazine #19.  The videos show off what can be done with these rigging examples (a furniture hinge and a catepiller soft track) in real-time.  Quite impressive.

Update: Alain has posted an updated version of his tutorial here.

Continue Reading 'Videos about BlenderArt Magazine #19' »

Jean-Sébastien Guillemette from Montage Studios has started giving Blender workshops in Montréal! Check out what he has to say about it:

Continue Reading 'Blender workshops in Montreal by Jean-Sebastien Guillemette' »

Check out "Infinite Jest," a video by Manuel Quiñones [manuq.]  I asked him a few questions over e-mail about his animation:

Continue Reading 'Infinite Jest – video by Manuel Quiñones' »

William Reynish, character animator of Big Buck Bunny, worked the past few months on a wonderful training DVD on character animation techniques.
Continue Reading 'Character Animation DVD by William Reynish' »

Recently a seminar was held in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.  Go ahead and read the report from Gumanoed!

Continue Reading 'Report on Blender seminar in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia' »

Ivan Hoffmann (digitalh) has made a case study on a great compositing technique for turning a day shot into a night shot – and he had to do the compositing work in a short amount of time.  For all you filmmakers out there, here's your chance to learn more about this very useful "Day to Night" technique!

Continue Reading 'Day to Night Compositing Case Study' »

Here is a report on Google Summer of Code Summit from Kent Mein.  Go ahead and read what he has to say

Continue Reading 'Google Summer of Code Summit – report from Kent Mein' »