Peoria, IL, U.S.A. – MultiAd, a central Illinois firm specializing in marketing and advertising services production, was seeking a cost-effective approach to 3-D modeling and rendering. It was determined that a hybrid approach of open-source modeling software, Blender and a popular commercial-rendering solution, V-ray is the best approach in a rough economy. As client demand continues to grow for MultiAd's 3-D production process, the company is seeking well-rounded Blender artists who are enthusiastic about an adventure into a hybrid 3-D production pipeline.

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We recently used Blender in a few commercials we did for a company out of Virginia called "Woodfin". In the commercial we made their mascot 'Watch Dog' talk. We targeted Blender as the ideal software for its ability to composite from within without having to export video or use additional software. This made the process of modeling, texturing, animating and compositing one fluid motion.

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1) 2.5 project issues

- Martin mentioned a keymap design conflict that has to be handled, and suggests a solution for how to combine 'tweaks' (drag mouse) and clicks consistantly.

- Dalai prefers to see more advanced support being added for python script dependencies, like executing a script on changing a variable in the UI. Issue is that this requires an updated dependency graph system, which is not in the first release specs yet. Ton suggests to at least put it on the 2.5 beta2 list, maybe beta1?

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Mancandy announces Durian from david bolton on Vimeo.

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As you may all remember, the newest Open Movie, Project Durian, is underway. These Open Movies are organized to improve Blender as much as possible. For Project Durian one of the goals is to make the next Blender series, Blender 2.5x, stable for production use.

It is possible for you to get your name in the end credits of the movie. How?

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A game technique has finally been successfully completed. Portals in the game engine!

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Campbell was recently interviewed about Yo Frankie! on Open Gaming Now.

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James du Gard with Critter Productions who gave us the snail animations is now taking aim at fruit. . .

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Pyppet 1.0 is nearly finished with development, I am fixing the final bugs now and adding the last few features.

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If you enjoyed Daniel's environmental commercial and were wondering about his process, he writes about it on the Brighter Planet site and offers some blend files for you to reverse engineer.

Amazing results on speed have been posted on the new smoke simulation by Daniel Genrich.

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Industry-Leading Open Format for the Exchange of 3D Assets Supporting New Compliance Opportunities; OpenCOLLADA Support for 3ds Max & Maya; Dassault Systemes Announces Broad Support for COLLADA, Integration with Google, EA, Blender & Yumetech

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Tony Mullen reports that the makers of the Hollywood Camera Work DVD series have put up a bunch of high quality green screen plates for anybody to download and work with for free.

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ALF is a grass roots conference covering Linux and the open source world. Roger Wickes, aka PapaSmurf a certified Blender trainer will be giving a presentation at ALF. Using Reference Video for Game Animation in Blender

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Some insight from John Lasseter on DailyMotion.com. In the first video he repeats a great quote from his mentor Chuck Jones.

DisneyPixar is slowly releasing each answer to the fans questions so check  DailyMotion.com occasionally for the updates.

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Enter the era of "Eye-Def" Computing and digital filmmaking at SIGGRAPH 2009 when director Peter Berg ("The Kingdom", "Hancock", and the upcoming remake of "Dune"), software creator and OTOY CEO Jules Urbach, and AMD's top computer and graphics processors executive Rick Bergman discuss some of the ground-breaking advances in hardware and software that enables sophisticated real-time rendering techniques and new delivery models, and forthcoming client and server hardware that has the potential to put the equivalent of a Hollywood render farm in a home set-top box.

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SIGGRAPH is known worldwide for showcasing some of the most innovative and groundbreaking visual and interactive content. This year, an added focus will highlight music and audio in their significant relationship with computer graphics and interactive techniques.

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This Kajimba trailer is a compilation of the various project clips that they've already released and a few that I hadn’t seen before. It has a folksy feel to it and the animation, characters, textures are excellent as usual. I found it very funny as it plays well to my crude sense of humor. Hopefully they'll get it funded and we can see a completed project in the near future.

Warning: Adult language and humor

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