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vSwarm - RenderFarm online gratuita!
4RTE DIGIT4L - 2009-10-03 19:14:00

vSwarm é uma RenderFarm online com base no cálculo distribuído para renderização em 3D, que tem suporte ao Blender e LuxRender até agora...

O vSwarm é separado em dois processos: Compartilhar CPU e Renderizar Trabalhos. Você pode optar em escolher apenas renderizar. Só que a prioridade de renderizar trabalhos será maior para quem escolher Compartilhar CPU e quanto mais compartilhar menor será o tempo, para poder renderizar os seus trabalhos e o melhor que o computador não fica lento!

Eu já estou lá compartilhando e renderizando! E você?

Germs and a Telegraphics free plugin for Photoshop
Starbright Illustrations (blog) - 2009-10-03 18:41:28

 

This week’s word on Illustration Friday is Germs. It’s great to have a nice rancid word like this so I can just let rip with my illustration.

Again after sketching my germ and adding colour with Photoshop I’m doing my 2D/3D illustration thing, but I’m having a problem with an unwanted white outline appearing in the resulting transparent pngs. I’m using transparent pngs as the raw material to load into Blender and turn into 2.5D to create the Germ images. I found some interesting advice on this Adobe forum though, including…

Re: Faint image border when saving JPG/PNG

Why not create your styled text on a transparent layer, then save as a PNG24?
No filled rectangle to deal with just your text and fully alpha-channeled transparency. It’ll work over any background color you choose for your webpage.

OK so I had been using PNG8, perhaps that was the problem. I resaved my ugly green germ illustration as a PNG24 and it was much better – yet still not perfect. The idea of Illustration Friday is to come up with an image however, not mess about with PNG settings, so I restarted Blender and started to warp the surface supporting my germ illustration, to make it look 3D. I think it works nicely, except for the eye getting a bit distorted.

P.S. Of course my favicon didn’t work because Microsoft needs some strange format called ico. There is a solution though, an ico plugin for Photoshop > Telegraphics – Free plugins for Photoshop & Illustrator…and other software, thank goodness for open source.

Arriving in Amsterdam
Sintel, the Durian Open Movie Project - 2009-10-03 17:21:44

Quick update: last thursday - October 1 - Lee and Soenke arrived in Amsterdam. Today Angela and Nathan dropped in. So I’ve been busy with getting them installed in their appartments and in Amsterdam a bit.
All of last week, Andy Goralczyk and Colin (and David monday) gave a week of Advanced Blender course here. David then went home for a week to his gf. This monday Campbell arrives, tuesday David comes back, and then we’re complete again… and will post regularly here!

On the picture: Lee and Soenke enjoying Colin’s storyboard talk.

-Ton-

II Libre Graphics Meeting - Brasil
4RTE DIGIT4L - 2009-10-03 16:32:00


O II Libre Graphics Meeting - Brasil é um evento comunitário que acontecerá durante o Latinoware 2009, organizado por representantes das comunidades brasileiras de GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Scribus e Estudio Livre, com o objetivo de divulgar estes grupos, divulgar a arte gráfica digital livre e promover a trocar conhecimentos com o público da Conferência Latino Americana de Software Livre.

O Latinoware 2009 acontecerá nos dias 22 a 24 de outubro, e será novamente realizada no Parque Tecnológico Itaipu, localizado dentro da área da usina hidrelétrica Itaipu Binacional. Veja o que vai acontecer no II LGM-BR!

Uma pena ser tão longe e não ter como eu ir, mas quem tiver condições de ir não perca a oportunidade!

Alpha problem with transparent gif texture – and answer from Blender Artists Forums
Starbright Illustrations (blog) - 2009-10-03 16:28:35

I’ve had another idea for an animation – yes I know I’m not finished with my first cute cat animation, but this idea is a really good one and can’t wait. It’ll be a kind of 2D version of a 3D animation.

My idea is that instead of creating characters and scenery from 3D primitives and other meshes in Blender, I’ll just draw them freehand with a pencil and scan them in as gifs instead, or maybe pings I haven’t decided yet.

You see, no matter what I try some of the feedback I’ve been getting about my 3D works is that it looks too glossy and smooth, too much like Pokemon.

So in response to this feedback I have been trying to directly turn my 2D sketches into a 3D animation, but came across some problems. I want to simply sketch my characters and then model them in 2.5D in Blender. I thought that would be easy if I just added a transparent gif with nontransparent outlines of my character created in Photoshop or Gimp, and then filled in the outlines with 3D shapes.

But when I added a gif it had a grey border (where the original plane holding the gif peeked out, not the transparent border I expected, what on earth was I to do. I started Googling to see if anyone else had had this problem, and lo and behold, [beginner] Alpha texture problem (colored edge around a transparant gif texture) – Blender Artists Forums, everything spelled out in small words, just the way I like it.

A Conversation with Steve Ogden 10-09
processdiary.com - 2009-10-03 15:00:00

From Public Album

Steve Ogden is a professional 2d and 3d artist. He currently works at Firaxis games, but in his spare time he works on personal projects, such as Moon Town. It was originally planned as an animated web series, but Steve decided to switch mediums in order to get the story out in a much more effective and immediate way.

Steve happily discusses his inspirations, past work, and thoughts on storytelling.

Steve's personal blog can be found at www.steveogden.com
Moon Town is available at www.moon-town.com

In other news: my personal dot-com is now live! Head on over to paulcaggegi.com now and check it out. I'll still be keeping this blog up because it drives the podcast, but I shall be using the dot-com to host various files and extra content.


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Couple basic tutorials about modelling fingers and hands
Tube - Epic Production Notes - 2009-10-03 05:29:25

Hi

I made couple tutorials covering  the basic points about hands and fingers in general, and how to model a basic finger in Blender. I will also make a tutorial about modeling a full hand when I have some time next week

You can watch them here

http://www.vimeo.com/freeartsculture/videos

Hopefully this should be helpful to some people.

2.5 tour #9 part 3 : materials/shading
Blender Labrat - 2009-10-03 04:11:00

here is part 3 of 2.5 tour #9 : materials and shading

- tour of new buttons layout and how to use it
- multiple material
- Textures
- New bumpmapping and colour managment
- Volumetrics
-Volumetric Textures

http://mfoxdogg.com/2_5_tour_shading.ogg

Hope you all enjoy it :)