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A group of Russian Blender enthusiasts have picked up the task of translating 'Essential Blender' into Russian. As the content of the book has been released under a Creative Commons license, I'm actually surprised that we don't see more initiatives like this!
Continue Reading 'Russian Translation of Essential Blender in Progress!' »
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Published by Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) on
July 6th, 2008 in 3D News, Art, Documentation, Games
From Montage Studio this new DVD (currently only available in download form) is set to be part of a series of exercises that will walk newer users through modeling, texturing and animating in Blender.
Continue Reading 'Training DVD: Introduction to Character Creation Part 1' »
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Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on
June 28th, 2008 in 3D News, Books
Well if you've been around Blender for a long time, you may recall "The Official Blender 2.0 book put together by Ton and Carsten Wartmann several years back. I know that I wore out that book, and I still have it. Now Carsten has announced that the first copy of his new Blender DVD Tutorial has arrived. Hopefully there will be an English version in the future.
Continue Reading 'Blender DVD Seminar by Carsten Wartmann' »
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Published by brian on
June 26th, 2008 in Training Videos, Videotutorials
Endi2 has made a great trio of timelapses demonstrating sculpting a head, retopologizing the resulting mesh and the mesh with a normal map applied in a GLSL enabled 3D view. I found the head sculpting video particularly good. Really they were all great to watch. Find the videos here.
Visit the cgtalk thread about the videos here.
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Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on
June 20th, 2008 in 3D News, Books, Documentation, Tutorials
I wanted to write a quick note to let everybody know that my advance copies of "Bounce, Tumble, and Splash! Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D" have arrived, and I'm very excited with how they've turned out! I've taken a few snapshots and posted them here on Flickr to give people a sense of what the book looks like on the inside: Continue Reading 'Update on Bounce Tumble and Splash by Tony Mullen' »
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Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on
June 13th, 2008 in 3D News, Training Videos, Tutorials, Videotutorials
This extensive tutorial set, created by the renowned Blender artist Andy Goralczyk, teaches artists how to craft a fully finished 3D animated scene. Tracking the evolution of an idea from creation to final render - and beyond. The result of the tutorials is an epic 90 second trailer.
Continue Reading 'Blender DVD training: Creature Factory by Andy Goralczyk' »
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Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on
June 11th, 2008 in 3D News, Books, Tutorials
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Published by Allan Brito on
March 31st, 2008 in Books
A new book about Blender has been released in Brazil. The book "Modelando personagens com Blender 3D", which could be translated to: Character Modeling with Blender 3D.
Continue Reading 'New Brazilian Blender Book, about character Modeling' »
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Published by Virgilio Vasconcelos on
March 12th, 2008 in 3D News, Books
Every month for the last few years, the great Shawn Kelly (senior animator at ILM and co-founder of Animation Mentor) has been sharing his knowledge with cool articles called just "Tips & Tricks".
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Published by Bart on
February 26th, 2008 in Training Videos, Videotutorials
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Published by Virgilio Vasconcelos on
February 25th, 2008 in Blender Institute, Training Videos
A while ago I had the chance of getting my hands on the ManCandy FAQ DVD, made by Bassam Kurdali. This is the first title of the "Open Movie Workshop" series, produced by Blender Foundation.
After watching about 7 hours of videos I have to say: this is a must have if you are serious about making rigging and animating with Blender.
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Published by Alltaken on
February 24th, 2008 in Books, Documentation, Education, Tutorials
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Published by Kernon on
February 11th, 2008 in 3D News, Books
Created in 1947, "Advanced Animation" has often been called the best "how-to" book on cartoon animation ever published.
Continue Reading 'Preston Blair's "Advanced Animation" (1st Edition)' »
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Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on
February 7th, 2008 in 3D News, Books
Pavel Siska wrote to tell us "This is a Czech (country which I come from)book about Blender 3D, it is basic book for beginners and covers all topic… I am sure it is pretty interesting, because this is first Czech book about Blender…"
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Published by brian on
January 30th, 2008 in Development, Documentation, Tutorials, Videotutorials
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Published by Kernon on
January 30th, 2008 in 3D News, Art, Books, People
Roland Hess (aka harkyman), editor and lead author for “The Essential Blender” and creator of the BlenderPeople crowd simulation project, has been busy with yet another promising project…“The Beast”.
Continue Reading '"The Beast" - animated short/book project by Roland Hess' »
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