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  • Teaser For ?Probe?, A Short Film Using Blender 2.5 For VFX
    Basically, I’m leading up a team of students at the Digital Media Center, a part of East Tennessee State University, for a short (around 10 minute) visual effects film called Probe. We’re using Blender 2.5 Alpha/Beta (coupled with After Effects CS4) for our Visual Effects.  And how exciting would it be to couple [...]

  • Creating Realistic Fire in Blender 2.5
    BlenderGuru.com’s Andrew Price has released a tutorial on realistic fire as an ebook. To get it your hands on it, you have to sign up for his maillist (which informs you of his new tutorials). I realise that this is a barrier for some, but I found the ebook to be very nicely made, and [...]

  • Happy Birthday Ton!
    Blender lead developer Ton Roosendaal turns 50 today! Even so, he’s one of the freshest and most inspiring minds that I know, and his passion for Blender, art and everything ‘Open’ never ceases to amaze me. He just has a little less hair. As a birthday gift, I’d like you to consider making a donation to [...]

  • Report: Blender at the TechOlympics, Cincinnati
    Our call for a volunteer to demo Blender at the Cincinnati TechOlympics was answered by Matt McComb. Ryan Fink reports on the event. Ryan Finke reports on Matt McComb’s presentation at the TechOlympic The INTERalliance’s first annual TechOlympics Expo successfully ran in the heart of Cincinnati, Ohio during the weekend of March 5th, 2010! A technology event [...]

  • The Process Diary: Character Head Modeling
    Paul Caggegi wrote: This month’s installment of the Process Diary is up – character head modeling (part 1). I cover basic head modeling for a cartoon style head, building the features and then stitching together. Cheers guys! Paul C Link Work In Progress March 2010

  • Beyond a dream
    “How does the awakening of a dream exceeds the imaginary world and get into the real world.Beyond a dream tells the story of a young creative mind that dissatisfied with the current issues toughest problems the world, dreams of their solution.On any given night in his room, dissatisfied with the conduct and breach of human [...]

  • New Sintel Renders Posted
    The Durian team have provided another peek at their work: Render gallery update. Verrry nice indeed!

  • Intro to Indirect Lighting
    Hello, everyone.  This is Benjamin Bailey (Banor,) coming to you with one of my first video tutorials, “Intro to Indirect Lighting”. Enjoy! Although not an expansive look into the new feature, this little tutorial will show you how to add mesh lights to your project in Blender 2.5 Alpha 2.

  • Do-it-yourself 3D Scanning
    Sebastian Korczak built his own 3D scanner with Blender, a line laser and an old recordplayer. I love these kind of projects! Sebastian writes: I decided to execute my old idea of 3D scanner. I was surprised when I realized that digital camera, linear laser and Blender are enough for fast scanning of large objects with good [...]

  • Blender on the BBC
    Producer/Director Nathan Williams informs us that his latest BBC documentary, Battle for North America, used Blender for all it’s graphics! Nathan writes: I’m a producer director who also uses Blender. I’ve recently made a history documentary about the Battle of Quebec [...]; all of the graphics in the programme were created with Blender – half by me and half by [...]


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