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Blender and Stephen Hawking
Although the final CGI for the new Discovery Series: Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking, was created with Maya, Blender was used for pre-vis and concept tests. Nathan Williams (www.nwilliams.co.uk), one of the directors, found Blender a valuable tool in creating this ambitious series.
Blending Life 2 — And the winners are!
Thanks to everyone who entered! Unfortunately we can only have three winners, plus the lucky…
Free ebook: Fundamentals of Paper Model Design
Angel David Guzmán [PixelOz] has published a 227 page(!!) free e-book on the creation of…
Demoreel dono & sozap 2010
Demoreel dono & sozap 2010
Blender course in Jerez, Spain
The Jerez Culture and Young Affairs Department has offer a course about "Introduction to 3D: modelling and animation with Blender".
Trub Animated Cartoon / Shaman Rig by Dimetrii
Trub animated cartoon from Dimetrii on Vimeo.
Improved Drag and Drop in Blender 2.5
Recently a lot of work has gone into making drag and drop more stable and
far more usful which means being able to drag items from outside
blender.
Blender Developer Meeting Minutes May 9, 2010
Last week the meeting made a decision on switching the default for .blend file reading…
Blender Benchmark: 2.49 vs 2.50 alpha 2
Elephantatech has pitted blender 2.49 and 2.52 alpha 2.50 alpha 2 in a benchmark test. Both…
LuxRender 0.7RC2 Released
The LuxRender team are getting closer to the 0.7 release. Here's an overview of the…
Sintel: logo chosen
From a huge stream of community-proposed logos, the Sintel team have chosen Nick Bueltge's version.…
G-Blender - Spanish Blender 3D community online again
After six months of being offline, G-Blender, the Blender 3D spanish community, is back online again. Thanks to our generous sponsors for hosting and bandwidth : Sandino Networks.
Fracture script + tutorial
There is a great script for fracturing meshes,
you can paint the cracks for the mesh.
"Froggy is back!" Italian Blender Short
"Froggy is back" by Reibe Studios will have its premiere on May 20 in Catania, Italy
Blender's Best Balls?
A fun little competition (for status) to design the best renders of a sphere. What can you do with a sphere?
The Promise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rxItinSTe0
Ten 2010 Google Summer Of Code Projects for Blender!
Google is generously sponsoring 10 students to work on Blender this summer, here are the…
Timing and Spacing in Animation Explained! - Webinar
Though Animation Mentor has sold out its webinar ‘Give Meaning to Movement: Timing and Spacing…
[dot]Blend Magz Issue .04 is Available!
Hiza Ro and the Blender Indonesia Army have done it again! Check out the latest…