Back in August, I covered the announcement from Mixamo, the online character animation service, regarding their support of Blender, using a Collada 1.4.1 import-based workflow. They recently followed up with me with the news that they have recently updated this Collada 1.4.1 importer for Blender 2.49b and are now hosting it on their Mixamo website, freely available to the Blender community.
Samuel bravo Silva writes:
Bagual is a Chilean based architecture and design studio who has developed a project visualization branch. Our aim is to explain complex concepts and projects in a clear and simple way using digital animation tools. Our study uses Blender as main 3D software. In the beginnings, some 4 years ago, we used other commercial 3d softwares. At this moment we have moved to Blender.
Julius Tuomisto writes:
We’re excited to announce that new integrated functionality between Renderfarm.fi and the communal movie production website Wreckamovie.com has been launched. Users of Wreckamovie.com are offered a simple way to create an account on Renderfarm.fi, synchronize the accounts and add their own sessions from Renderfarm.fi as “shots” on Wreckamovie.com. As this is planned to be the first stepping stone in integration, we hope that the future will bring users of both services many more cool features.
Mixamo.com supplies motion-capture data, What makes it unique is their workflow: you upload your own (rigged) character, map the rig to theirs and choose an animation. Using their on-line editor, you can then tweak the animation before you download and use it. As of today, Mixamo actively supports Blender.
Renderfarm.fi is a FREE renderfarm, powered by the community itself. The only catch: the uploaded work must be released under a Creative Commons license, and the ‘session owners’ (the people on which computer your work is rendered) are free to use the results. Blenderfarm.fi have released their own custom Blender 2.52 version.
bevyRender has been released.It is a fast bucket based render program utilizing the computing resources at IBM cloud infrastructure and Erlang for lightning fast and Free render for blender based project.
3D printing community Shapeways allows their members to upload 3D models, preview them on the website and have them 3D printed in a variety of materials. Until recently, the previews were rendered in OpenGL and were rather bland looking. I was involved in the implementation of Blender on their webservers, in order to generate better quality previews. Here’s a look behind the scenes of this project.
James Neal from RedCartel talks about the use of Blender in their production pipeline and about the creation of their Gecko commercials.
Blenducation is coming back with a bang, offering “Get Into Gear Webinar,” a series of live classes with some of the top Blender 2.5 users, introducing Blender users to the new changes of 2.5 and how to adjust to these changes. Starting December 12 to the 13, 2009, the class instructors include: Dipingo, ZanQdo, Micheal Foxx, Cessen, LohnS, Blengine, Sebastian, and Ideasman. Cost for both classes together is $29.95 USD.
CGCookie.com has launched a special membership deal, called CG Cookie Citizen Program! Now you can get everything on CGCookie.com, BlenderCookie.com, and any upcoming content for just $10 USD a month. Check it out!
