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Itsartmag – Making of Lighthouse short
8 Comments Published by brian on August 11th, 2008 in Art, Miscellaneous, Video
Itsartmag has posted a nice making of interview on Promotion Studio's Lighthouse film. The article is a nice look behind the scenes and into the thought process of the short.
Recently, we posted about a Blender head modeling tutorial on cgarena. Well it looks like the author has completed the ear tutorial to accompany it.
What is a Wixel?
While some of you may be familiar with these animations, (one was nominated for the 2007 Suzanne awards) they are some excellent examples of cutout animation done utilizing Blender and GIMP. And well worth spotlighting. See a couple videos embedded after the cut and a link to more at their Vimeo gallery.
You can for more info about the artists at their blog here.
This is a neat little demonstration of IPO drivers used to control textures. The demonstration uses the Mancandy model and rig. Video after the cut or you can find the video on vimeo.
Ashish recently emailed us to point out a great step by step head modeling tutorial, by Carlos R. Bisquertt, done completely in Blender. It has been published by CGarena and can be found here.
Occasionally we get word that Suzanne has popped up in some unexpected place. Which we love to see of course! Spread the Blender monkey love! Maxwell Renderer has released a new version and on page 3 in the pdf flyer whose wide-eyed and grinning face do we see? Suzanne of course!
View the pdf here and Suzanne in all her subdivided glory.
This is a pretty good step by step tutorial on modeling a soccer ball in Blender. There is one possible change I'd make to the tutorial.
Note: This tutorial is great for a simple prop in the background. But it doesn't stand up in accuracy. Upon reviewing the tutorial further and receiving comments this is indeed not a completely accurate representation of a soccer/football. For a video demonstrating how to create an accurate version see here.
Review: Modeling a Female Body
23 Comments Published by brian on July 23rd, 2008 in Tutorials, Videotutorials
This post is a review of the Body modeling DVD created by Jonathan Williamson of Montage Studio. If you don't know about Jonathan Williamson or Montage Studio I recommend browsing our past posts here at Blendernation or checking out montagestudio.org. They have a blog they keep up to date on the latest happenings at the studio.
In this review, I'll do my best to touch on each topic covered on the DVD, so the reader can get an understanding on whether or not this DVD is for them, as well as describe the quality of the content.
This is a fun little animation of a Troll and a cube created in Blender. Video embedded after the cut. Or view it directly on Vimeo here.
TopMod is pretty slick and complete open source modeling application with a unique workflow. It is officially available for Windows and OSX. But a Linux version is available. Quite a few tutorials are available. I recommend taking a look at the video tutorials.
Nicholas Bishop has uploaded a series of screencasts demonstrating the work he has done on Multires for the Google Summer of Code.
See the all current screencasts embedded after the cut. I've included Nicholas's descriptions from Vimeo describing what each video is demonstrating.
Or if you'd like to browse each video individually you can find them here.
Continue Reading 'Blender GSoC – Multires Screencasts' »
Basic toon character rig available
13 Comments Published by brian on July 15th, 2008 in Models & Rigs, Toolbox
dav_ recently announced the release of a simple toon character and rig on Blenderartists. He describes it as having basic controls and says that it is a work in progress. Because it is a work in progress, dav_ would like to hear any feedback you may have.
Training DVD: Introduction to Character Creation Part 1
29 Comments Published by brian on June 30th, 2008 in Documentation, Training Videos, Tutorials, Videotutorials
From Montage Studio this new DVD (currently only available in download form) is set to be part of a series of exercises that will walk newer users through modeling, texturing and animating in Blender.
Continue Reading 'Training DVD: Introduction to Character Creation Part 1' »
Timelapse: sculpt, retop and glsl
17 Comments Published by brian on June 26th, 2008 in Training Videos, Videotutorials
Endi2 has made a great trio of timelapses demonstrating sculpting a head, retopologizing the resulting mesh and the mesh with a normal map applied in a GLSL enabled 3D view. I found the head sculpting video particularly good. Really they were all great to watch. Find the videos here.
Visit the cgtalk thread about the videos here.
Timelapse Modeling/Rendering sessions
9 Comments Published by brian on May 27th, 2008 in Tutorials, Video, Videotutorials
Sebastian König has posted some great timelapse modeling and rendering sessions that are available at vimeo for your viewing pleasure. I particularly enjoyed the timelapse for the foxglove challenge. And remember if you are a member of vimeo you can download the original video files.
Renderdemon has posted up an incredible hair test on Blenderartists. I'd say its Blendernation praiseworthy. Nice work renderdemon. Some good screenshot eyecandy as well.
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