Ton Roosendaal just announced the availability of a Blender 2.61 beta test build, and invites the community to test it.
Official Blender 2.61 Beta Test Build Now Available
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Category Archives: 3D News
Friday Hangout: How do YOU promote Blender?
Blender users are a passionate bunch, and most of us love to promote it wherever we can (well, at least, *I* sure do ;-). I’m curious: did you ever have an extra awesome opportunity to introduce Blender somewhere or to someone? How did it go – did you ‘convert’ them? And what was it that convinced them?
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Blender on a Supercomputer!
Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee is using Blender on their 300,000 core Jaguar supercomputer for scientific visualisation.
Friday Hangout: The Best Tutorial You’ve Ever Done
Do you still remember that one particular Blender tutorial that made you go ‘a-HA!’? The one that made all the pieces in your mind come together and made you fall in love with Blender? Share it here and I’ll compile a list of the greatest Blender tutorials of all time ;-)
Blender Mesh Level of Detail Test
Amor Sacro
Amor Sacro (sacred love) is a short film that was shown at the Sitges Film Festival this week. The visual effects for the wings were all done in Blender. It was also projected at the Capitol Cinema in Madrid on Thursday 27th of October.
Creating a Scratched Glass Bottle with Cycles
Learn how to make dirty objects with Cycles in this videotutorial. Continue reading
Blend Swap Download Policy Changes
Due to its ever growing popularity, Blend Swap is running into bandwidth limitations. In order to prevent a total site meltdown, they are now introducing a new download policy: unregistered users can download 100MB/week and registered users who share models can download up to 150MB/week.
Matthew and Jonathan elaborate on the background of this change on the Blend Swap blog. It sounds like a wise decision to me, and running into these limitations is definitely good news ;-)
Secrets Revealed: Using MIDI controls to animate
Bad Fella Timelapses
Andrea Fiori writes:
I’d like to share with you these two timelapses I’ve done some time ago. The first one is about polygonal modeling and the second one about sculpting to refine. They cover just the modeling process I’ve used to obtain this image.
