Brecht is developing this new sub-surface scattering node. Though it’s still under development it yields quite nice results already, and it seems Brecht has a few ideas up his sleeve on how to improve it even further in the future.
Howitzer has posted instructions on the Blender Artists Forums on how to optimize the Blender performance of old ATI cards using an old driver. This has been reported to work really well.
In 3D World’s question of the month the question “How do I animate a raft adrift on the surface of the ocean?†was answered by Bassam Kurdali with a Blender tutorial. It is now free for download in .pdf form complete with sample files at different stages.
Have you ever tried tiling a texture, only to find that the lighting in the texture image is not uniform? Dark and light areas shows like a pattern throughout the tiles, ruining your image even though your edges might be seamless enough?
The company behind this chip has upon request received original renderers of Elephants Dream from the Blender Foundation. These were used to test the 2K video screening capabilities of their new JPEG 2000 decoder chip.
Blenderart Magazine is preparing for their 10th issue and they are looking for content. Sandra Gilbert sent in the following call for content:
It’s time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue #10 of Blenderart Magazine. In this issue we are focusing on ‘Organic Modeling’.
Imperitor wrote this nice grass tutorial on the Blender Artists forums. It goes through the process of making grass in Blender step by step in an easily comprehendible way. This is a good tutorial for anyone wanting to make grass in Blender, or someone new to the particle system.
This deserves a headline here at BlenderNation.com for sure! Tim Ellis (also known as “sonix†on the forums) has done an incredibly photorealistic image for the Maxwell Rendering Contest. It was modelled in Blender, and rendered with the widely acclaimed Maxwell renderer. Competition was tough, many great entries were submitted, but Tim Ellis came out on top. He landed on no less than a clear 1st place!
Matray, a French director, did this music video using some of the new features in Blender 2.43, especially the displacement modifier. Though Matray himself modestly considers this an unserious “testâ€, it’s really an art piece in my opinion. Very surreal and lovely style!
Viralata has written two tutorials on his site using some of the new features of Blender 2.43 to achieve nice toon and sketch styled renderings. Are you tired of doing the same old photorealistic rendering? Try this out!
