Keepworthy Creations: Using Blender for Prototyping Gift Designs

Childrens publisher and gift company Keepworthy Creations have been using Blender to prototype collectable gifts they produce to accompany their books. They started by using Blender simply to aid creating technical drawings to send to their manufacturer, but liked the process so much that for their next project they persuaded their manufacturer to accept .blend files directly. Continue reading

FreeStyle Sculpting Tech Demo

A very interesting tech demo by Lucian Stanculescu for his PhD, that allows adaptively tessellating topology à la sculptris, but with the added twist that the user can also punch holes in the topology, changing the genus of the mesh using only the brushes. He plans to develop the demo into a standalone application in future. More links can be found from the videos vimeo page.

Ramen Compositor Lives On

Some of you may remember Ramen, a standalone, node based compositor with a promising set of features, that unfortunately ceased development a little while ago. Thankfully development on the project has resumed (but is now closed source) and some new features including tracking have been added.  Version 0.8.15 is now available for 64 bit linux, with windows 64 bit releases on their way.

Ramen Compositor