Kernon kernond at BlenderNation

True Volumetrics in early development for Blender

76 Comments Published by Kernon on May 3rd, 2008 in 3D News, Development

The visual effects capabilities of Blender are constantly growing by leaps and bounds. A major milestone for this relentless progress will be the integration of true volumetrics in Blender. It's on the horizon…

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Bolt Factory Script

16 Comments Published by Kernon on April 28th, 2008 in 3D News, Python Scripts

This script allows the user to quickly create various types of screw fasteners.

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Last Chance for Submission into Powua Animation Contest

7 Comments Published by Kernon on April 19th, 2008 in 3D News, Contests

Recently reported, the Powua renderfarm is offering rendering time on their servers as prizes for their animation contest.

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Two Easy Ways to Maintain a History of Your Project Renders

15 Comments Published by Kernon on April 12th, 2008 in 3D News, Python Scripts

Here are two scripts that will add a nice enhancement to your workflow and your ability to graphically document the progress of your projects.

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Animation Contest - winners receive free rendering time on the Powua renderfarm

11 Comments Published by Kernon on April 9th, 2008 in 3D News, Contests

Here's an opportunity to win up to one full week of free rendering on the Powua renderfarm!

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PasteAll.org (beta) - easily share large blocks of code and text

19 Comments Published by Kernon on April 8th, 2008 in 3D News

From the creators of GraphicAll.org comes a slick new online tool for sharing programming code and text in many different formats, complete with syntax highlighting! Of particular interest to the Blender community is its built-in support for the Blender API.

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Blenderart Mag Issue #15 now available - "Animation"

21 Comments Published by Kernon on April 4th, 2008 in 3D News, Tutorials

This issue covers animation basics and beyond with a variety of articles and tutorials that will help you take your animation from Okay to Wow!

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Blender Material Repository Anniversary, Contest

9 Comments Published by Kernon on April 4th, 2008 in 3D News, Contests

The Blender Material Repository has its one-year anniversary coming up and they plan to celebrate it with a contest!

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Adaptive Subdivision Modifier (in development)

23 Comments Published by Kernon on April 4th, 2008 in 3D News, Development

Kai Kostack, developer of the awesome Demolition script, is at it again…

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Two Quick Ways to Create Great Iris Textures using Blender

15 Comments Published by Kernon on April 3rd, 2008 in 3D News, Tutorials, Videotutorials

Blender offers so much in one package that it's always tempting to see what else it can do. "handlebar", from the CGTalk forums, has found two very clever ways to quickly create excellent iris textures using Blender and was kind enough to create short video tutorials demonstrating the techniques.

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Help Needed Updating the Features Page at Blender.org

15 Comments Published by Kernon on March 24th, 2008 in 3D News

With so many new features constantly being added to Blender, it's time to polish up the visuals on the Features Pages at Blender.org.

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Three Funny Animations from David Ward

14 Comments Published by Kernon on March 18th, 2008 in 3D News, Art

It's great that Blender is really starting to be used for more animation! Here are three animations created by David Ward.

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Alan's Cloud Generator (beta)

29 Comments Published by Kernon on March 13th, 2008 in 3D News, Python Scripts

Well, it appears that Blender may have reached another milestone in the pursuit of 3D clouds!

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Improve the Quality of Your Renders using Tone and Gamma Corrections

32 Comments Published by Kernon on March 10th, 2008 in Tutorials

You've rendered your scene and everything looks great! But, of course, there's usually more work to be done to really push the rendered results to something that can truly be called "finished". The subject of post-processing could fill volumes of books and many online resources often leave you with more questions than answers. Here's a tutorial on Tone and Gamma Corrections that should help to answer some of those questions.

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Animated Action Comedy - "Da New Guys: For The Winnings"

37 Comments Published by Kernon on March 8th, 2008 in 3D News, Art

This 15-minute short film is packed with so many reasons to like it. The level of graphic detail is well-suited to the style of animation and storyline…really good stuff.