Froggy Is Back!
"Froggy is back" is now online. View it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDY2gEkZ5s.
Author Community Reporter
New York Blender User-Group meeting to be hosted at NYU CADA - Center for Advanced Digital Application
NYU CADA - Center for Advanced Digital Applications has offered to host the Blender 3D Animation Production Group's Workshop-002 on June 12th between 1pm-5pm.
Art For Code Ready for General Usage
The Art for Code http://www.artforcode.org/ project is ready for you to use. Art for Code is an idea concieved of by LetterRip (Tom Musgrove) and implemented by Benjamin Tolputt. A way to get more desired features for artists faster.
Paulo Silva Interview and Making Of
We conclude the series of articles in which we followed and we have updated the BLENDING LIFE 2 news, Blender Contest whose theme was the creation of photo realistic human faces .
As we noted in the previous article on this serie,s was the winner of the contest PAULO SILVA (engelik) with its excellent work.
Paul has kindly agreed to answer some questions about his work for this contest and adding more to satisfy curious readers, staff making of his work.
Blender-Tutorial.com thank Paul Silva for his friendliness and courtesy.
http://www.blender-tutorial.com/index.php/2010/06/01/paulo-silva-intervista-e-making-of.htm
Creative Commons Film Group, CCFG, New Video Tutorial
The tutorial is about how to load two videos and then cross from one to the other and then render the results.
It is made with the May 26, 2010 SVN version of Blender 2.5 Alpha
Link to the text and video but you need to be a member of CCFG
http://bespin.org/~douglas/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27
You can also veiw just the video on YouTube under XOMagick.
Douglas E Knapp
Blender-Empire #12.
Welcome all of the computer graphics amateurs. The twelfth issue of the Blender-Empire Magazine has been released. This magazine deals with modeling using new version of Blender 2.5. We’ll continue our learning marathon and get to know new options of the program.
The Contents
1. Cartoon “wolf period”. How was it done?
2. 3D-clouds modeling.
3. Creating of a golden chain.
4. The Earth crust breaking animation
5. Creating of a broken egg.
6. Characters. Rigging: chinchilla and the squirrel from the Big Buck Bunny
7. Art Gallery
Link cover http://blender-empire.ru/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/12.png
Download pdf-version of the Magazine on http://blender-empire.ru/?p=602
Video-course “Blender, First steps in Modeling” has come along with the Blender-Empire Magazine. In this course you will find modeling instruments in Blender 2.5. The course consists of 5,5 hours of lessons divided in parts. You are welcome to get more information here (http://blender-empire.ru/course/02/index.html).
Best regards, Vladimir Vychegzhanin.
“Real or Fake” Challenge - Voting open
5 entries. Yours voting decide who wins the first, second and third place of a "Real of Fake" challenge.
Blender and SecondLife
CartoonSmart.com just released John Nyquist's 7th full-length Blender training video. This lesson is for both Blender and SecondLife users.
Advanced Array Animation Tutorial for Blender 2.5
Hey guys, this is cganim8or here with a ten part, advanced array animation tutorial.
Blenderart Mag Issue #27 now available
Welcome to Issue #27, “Shadow Showdown.” In this issue we explore lighting and creation of shadows with a nice variety of tutorials and articles on various lighting tools and techniques.