Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Have a great Christmas holiday season and be safe!

I have a tutorial for creating a nice 2d snowflake pattern that's in the works. It will be available soon after the holidays. Here's an example of the types of results you can achieve:






See you soon!

News: Search for Blender Materials from within the Blender Toolbar

Hey,

I just added a new search tool to the Blender Browser Toolbar that will allow you to easily search for Blender Materials found at the Blender Open Material Repository!





The Blender Open Material Repository* is a great site where Blender users share custom Blender Materials. It's also a good resource to save time and learn more about how to create your own materials.

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Learn more about Blender Materials and Textures.

*a link to the Blender Open Material Repository can be found in the Blender Toolbar under Extras -> Blender Materials.

technorati tags: Blender3D, 3D, graphics

News: Share Your Ideas and Opinions with the Blender Developers

There's a very cool website, called Blenderstorm, that allows you to share your ideas and participate in polls concerning Blender.

About Blenderstorm

Blenderstorm is a place where people can leave their feature requests. Blenderstorm is also for developers to check what users want.

The idea for Blenderstorm was conceived by Pildanovak. The site has been created and is maintained by jesterKing (Blender developer, Big Buck Bunny, Elephants Dream) and hosted by http://www.blender-fi.org.

Blenderstorm is based on Ubuntu Brainstorm, but has been adapted and modified in some places. We try to keep in sync with the project, but we also develop our own features.

Previously, the site was plagued by a very slow server making it difficult to really enjoy what the site offers. However, they've upgraded to a better server and interaction with the site is much better.

jesterKing writes:

I finally have the Blenderstorm database on a MUCH better server than it used to be. The service is again actually usable, and makes it for me also much easier to maintain...

It's a great site that's fun and easy to participate in helping the developers know what you think and need.

Check it out: Blenderstorm

You may also help keep Blenderstorm alive by making a small donation to help cover their increased server costs.

technorati tags: Blender 3D