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The most recent Peach blog post brings some great news to the Peach team. The team has been staring with wide eyes at the approaching headlights of the deadline. Many things have slowed the progress of animating. So the dream team comes in. Peach has hired some old faces to help out.
2.5 Development Demos available on youtube
61 Comments Published by brian on January 18th, 2008 in Development
Development continues full speed ahead on 2.5. Thankfully keeping us informed some developers have been posting youtube videos of new additions/works in progress as they happen. We thank you for this.
*Note: These are early interface development videos. Consider them as such.*
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Apricot Pre-production review workshop
4 Comments Published by brian on January 17th, 2008 in Apricot, Blender Institute
There is a great review on the Apricot blog of a recent workshop that took place discussing the status and plans for the production. Continue Reading 'Apricot Pre-production review workshop' »
Modeling the Female Body DVD available for preorder
26 Comments Published by brian on January 16th, 2008 in Education, Training Videos
I can tell you this is an excellent DVD. I have seen much of it already and it goes into great detail. Jonathan does a good job of going through the process and giving plenty of step by step info on his workflow so you can easily follow along.
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Peach Fur Examples
13 Comments Published by brian on December 14th, 2007 in Blender Institute, Peach
Some great work by Andy is now visible on the Peach blog. The focus of the post there is on the strand renderer and particle system. The article goes into a good amount of detail describing the process of setting things up. An enjoyable read.
Note: Do to site outages and a few individuals having problems with the .ogg file format I've mirrored smaller videos on google video for those interested.
Find them here:
Fur in OpenGL.
Fur in Final Render.
New Object-to-Object and Normal Map Baking Options
16 Comments Published by brian on December 8th, 2007 in Development
Development continues on Blender this latest new feature includes improved baking options.
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PlumiBlender available at Graphicall
16 Comments Published by brian on November 8th, 2007 in Development, Miscellaneous
The Plumiferos team has made their version of Blender, called PlumiBlender, available to all.
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Q&A: Tom Musgrove Discusses Blender Development
8 Comments Published by brian on November 7th, 2007 in Development, People
Tom Musgrove was interviewed by Computer World recently. Its an interesting read.
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Blender Conference Movies now available!
24 Comments Published by brian on October 31st, 2007 in Conferences
The Blender conference videos are now available on Blender.org.
*Update 11/2/07 Conference videos are available as .torrents now. Please seed!*
*Update 11/3/07 Conference videos available at Google. See Blenderartists thread here.*
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Mancandy officially released.
13 Comments Published by brian on October 18th, 2007 in Art, Repositories
Mancandy is officially released. And it now comes in three tasty flavors.
Some of you may remember this post. It ended up being lost when we had some hosting issues. I'm reposting it for those that may have missed it and for reference for those that are interested.
Fluid Simulator Tutorial
19 Comments Published by brian on October 9th, 2007 in Training Videos, Tutorials
3Dtutorials has a Fluid Simulator tutorial available from Stephen Meli (Lord of the Rings Junkie).
ChicO is developing a simple but fun game in Blender. And he is sharing his development with the community.
Some great updates on the Plumiferos blog. Its great to see some activity there. We know they have all been hard at work finishing the film.
Need something to do today? How about animate!?
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Eoin Duffy is a graphic designer/animator studying for a degree in Graphic Design. He was approached by the Dublin band KOPEK in December 2006 to create a video for their single "Stop". After 6 months of work Eoin completed the video.
Mark IV Simulator using Blender for its graphics
16 Comments Published by brian on June 21st, 2007 in 3D News, Games
Anton Gerdelan is working alongside others to develop a 3D engine that can be used to simulate armoured warfare, with rules similar to those of traditional table-top war-games, but in real-time. And they have been using Blender to create the graphics and models for the engine.
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Particle Documentation Begun
21 Comments Published by brian on June 21st, 2007 in Development, Documentation
Jahka has started documenting the new particle system at the Blender wiki. Its in the early stages and not everything is covered, but it is a good place to find information on the new system if you are testing one of the development builds.
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