‘Art of Community’ is a new book currently being written by Jono Bacon. Its a book detailing the many areas of communities which follow ‘Every software project, online site, or company’ and how to build a strong community. The book is relevant to Blender as Ton Roosendaal has recently contributed some interview content.
Until recently the Blender art gallery has not been updated. So, I decided to do a bit of investigating, and find out what is going on with the minor update.
I put together a video tour of the SIGGRAPH 2008 Expo and some of the electronic art to try a give those of you who have never experienced SIGGRAPH a taste of it. The Expo is like a one giant collage of colors and sounds of technology. A place where art and technology collide. The video opens with a walk through some of the vendor exhibits in the early morning before most of the people arrive. It later then comes alive with the buzz of the exhibitors and attendees followed with some of the art.
What is a Wixel?
Last week a very cool making-of, for a scene called Sci-fi City was published at itsartmag.com. The scene was made by Bertrand Benoit, who modeled the scene in Blender 3D and rendered it in Indigo.
Do you remember Project London? The independent feature film, which uses Blender for 3d animation and some effects, has a great clip with a sample animation. And again, the clip has some impressive animations!
Do you remember Hangar No.5? This short movie uses Blender for all 3d animation and effects. A few weeks ago Bart wrote an article about the trailer and release of the movie.
Just like the earth spins around the sun, the Blender World Cup comes around once each year. And just like Global Warming, each year the competition is fiercer than ever.
This year the topic is wide open, and the freedom belongs to you the artists…. There is just one catch.
Rocketman has been working lately on an impressive online comic using Blender and several other open source programs. The comics follow a small group of robots, throughout several humorously entertaining sketches.
A company from Brazil called Gamion, just used Blender to produce a virtual tour of a few blocks from Sao Paulo.
