Benjamin Bailey has recently created a video tutorial series titled “Sculpting a Zombie Head in Blender 2.54.” With over an hour and a half (1.5 hours) of video instruction, you will learn how to sculpt a basic cube into a human head, create an exposed brain, and paint in tiny skin details onto the mesh with textured sculpting brushes. The entire series is online and available for free.
A group of Blender artists are working hard to prepare a stunning animated short for the Richmond 48 Hour Film Festival. The timer has already started and the team is super-excited as the project is gaining momentum!
A new issue of [dot]BlendMagz is out, issue 3! This is the e-magazine from Blender Indonesia. This issue comes with some impressive artwork, an article about the Indonesian open film Seruling Project, and more!
Paul Caggegi (creator of the Process Diary,) has been working on a series of video tutorials on poly-modeling a human figure. This month’s episode is the fourth video in the series, covering the boots and hands.
http://vimeo.com/9719919
David Ward has created a new website, Blender101.com, a central e-learning experience for all of his Blender tutorials, including the Johnny Blender series. Way to go, David!
Allan Brito has just finished a new book, called “Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines”, in which he takes us through the process of modeling, animating, and rendering 3 different mechanical objects, as well as showing us how to use YafaRay and LuxRender. Check it out!
Sebastian König has created a videtutorial for CGCookie about using curves in Blender, “Working with Curves in Blender”. It’s a good overview of using curves and I learned from it!
Have you ever wondered how to create alpha masks for compositing in Blender? Well, Philippe Roubal has written an explanation on how to do rotoscopoing and matte painting in Blender, so check it out now!
It’s finally here! The Blender Foundation’s next open movie, the Durian Project, has been announced and it’s looking awesome. Check out the Durian Project now!
“Drone” is an impressive experimental short by Andreas Fischer, made with Blender and After Effects.
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