Kris Occhipinti (metalx1000) is working on a 2D platformer using Blender. All assets will be released as open source, and Kris will also record the entire creation process. He needs a budget of $2500 to finish the project and has already raised $2090 on Kickstarter. He has three days left to raise the remaining $410.
Rosa will come to the big screen!
Spanish animation studio is working on a short movie called ‘Important Things’, an open movie project – all the source files will be released. I talked to director Rodrigo Medinilla about this project.
Today I’d like to see what YOUR side of the screen looks like. Take a pic of your Blender workplace and share it in the comments below. I’ll kick off with a pic of BlenderNation-HQ ;-)
An introduction to Blender, it’s history and it’s capabilities in Belgium at “Jeudis du Libre”.
Blender was used in the research phase of this art installation for the “Fête des lumières” (Festival of Lights) in Lyon, France. The festival is from December 8-11.
Mixamo, provider of motion capture data for characters and clever automatic rigging, has published an overview of 10 free (some as in beer, some as in speech) tools and repositories for game developers (and for any other 3D designer, I’m sure).
3D SLAM (Simultaneous Location and Mapping) is a technique for scanning 3D environments in real-time and combining the data with GPS or other location info to build up a 3D map of an area.
