Potential is a short film created by a small group of students from Hamilton Boys’ High School and Waikato University.
The film was made on a shoe-string budget, so all the camera gear was built by the team in order to cut costs.
Geraldine Karolyi has an inspiring story to share about the creation of the amazing Christmas animation that featured on French National Television.
Here’s a hilarious ad-hoc community project – people Photoshopping a picture of Ton during the conference. Enjoy!
This time, Campbell and Thomas talk with Nathan Letwory about the 2.5 development process.
Gottfried Hofmann writes:
Jeroen Bakker, the man behind the compositor redesign, talks about the philosophy behind his project and his experiences with crowdfunding:
“People are always complaining about the speed of the compositor. That’s one part of the system I want to change. But I don’t want to make a really fast compositor, I want to create a compositor that works faster for you.”
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3D Total interviewed Ton Roosendaal at this years Siggraph conference in Vancouver. Ton talks about what’s being worked on for blender 2.6 on and Project Mango.
Celeste Masinter describes her transition from 3DS Max to Blender and other open source tools. A great and inspiring read.
It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t fast. But because I made this work with open source, freely available, and cheap software, the real value of the work is where it belongs – in the hands of the artist.
Tony Mullen has won a prestigious screenwriting award with a short story. He’s planning to turn it into a Blender project next year.
Thomas Dinges writes:
Heres the fourth episode of the Blender Podcast with an very in-depth interview with Bassam Kurdali who talks about his Open Movie Tube and all the other cool projects like the famous Mancandy. Bassam was the director of the world’s first Open Movie, Elephants Dream.
Update: Here’s the iTunes link for this podcast.
Roberto Roch, a brilliant blender artist and sculptor shares with us his story in blender and sculpting.
