Modeling a Porsche 911 GT3 RS
Montage Studio - 2009-12-05 18:56:32

Hello all!

I have not done a very good job of updating this blog recently, but I did want to point you all towards part 01 of my latest tutorial Blender Cookie on modeling a Porsche 911 GT3 RS!

This multi-part tutorial I take a close look at how to model a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Due to the nature of the car the tutorial encompasses a lot of techniques from both organic modeling and hard-body modeling styles. A particular emphasis is placed on creating good topology that will enable you to easily modify the shape but also to accurately create the details.

Part 01 of the this tutorial details how to create the base of the front end.

I hope you like it and as always I love hearing your feedback!

http://www.blendercookie.com/2009/12/05/modeling-a-porsche-911-gt3-rs-part-01/

The Producer’s Report #95 - Holiday Progress
Phil McCoy's Posts - Project London - 2009-12-05 18:00:00

It's been two weeks since our last report. We celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday, ate lots of turkey and stuffing. And through it all we kept our shoulder to the stone, nudging it forward to make more progress on the film and related items.

Charla Grenz-Solheim has been working with us to write up "our story" and it's coming together wonderfully.

We'd like to thank Jim Thacker at Jawbone.tv for writing a great interview with Ian about Project London. He characterized our project as the most ambitious no-budget effects film ever. Pretty cool.

Ian turned in some more amazing visuals. One of the shots during the epic final battle is so vertigo inducing that we wonder how strongly it's going to affect the audience. Ian, a film goer of strong stomache said, "I don't usually get sick watching crazy sick action sequences, but when I was working on this shot and trying to watch and track all the spinning around, I almost had to get up and leave the room to vomit." I replied, "Sir, you are a great filmmaker. I applaud you."

So today, Nate, Ian and me are heading to Bellingham to meet with Branson Anderson and discuss progress on the graphic novel. We are incredibly excited about this and will bring you more news soon. Stay tuned!

BTW, if you are free on December 11, you should come hang out with us at the Half Acre Day show (details here).

Here are the stats (based on two weeks of work).

Status of Visual Effects (VFX) Shots:
Number remaining: 46.5 (LESS THAN 50 Woot!)
Number in progress: 6
Number completed: 570
Percentage remaining: 7.9%% (LESS THAN 10% WOW!!)

Doom: "Dinosaurs" (calculated by Ian)

Projected date for completion of all VFX:
30 January 2010 (based on projected time estimates of all tasks)
10 February 2010 (based on spreadsheet items completed per week)

This week’s recommendations:
Ian: "Dinosaurs"
Jen: "David Weber's Honor Harrington novel series." I never thought I could fall in love with books. Honor Harrington is my new hero, she's changed my life!
Nate: "Bachelorette" by Bjork. Intense.
Phil: "A Love Story in Stop Motion" by Carlos Lascano. Watch it.

Cheers,

Phil McCoy, Executive Producer
on behalf of Nathan McCoy (left), Producer and Phil McCoy (right)

BTW, she’s here !
malefico's spot - 2009-12-05 17:13:58

Suzanne arrived home while I was travelling, here we finally pose happily together

Once again, thanks everyone at B-Conf for this award !

Por cierto, está aqui !
malefico's spot - 2009-12-05 17:13:53

Suzanne llegó a casa estando yo de viaje, aquí posamos felices del encuentro Una vez más gracias a todos por este premio !

Modeling a Porsche 911 GT3 RS – part 01
Blender Cookie - 2009-12-05 17:00:15

In this multi-part tutorial we are going to be taking a close look at how to model a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Due to the nature of the car the tutorial encompasses a lot of techniques from both organic modeling and hard-body modeling styles. A particular emphasis is placed on creating good topology that will [...]

http://blendercookie.com

learning blender 2.5
digital janitor - 2009-12-05 14:24:00

I recommend everyone that is interested into learning blender 2.5 to download and watch the videos on this site.
Really informative.

http://blenderlabrat.blogspot.com/

Blender 2.5: Color Management
BlenderNation - 2009-12-05 07:36:33

A new feature in Blender 2.5 that’s hard to spot is color management. It ‘linearizes’ colors for internal processes such as rendering and compositing and applies the appropriate gamma corrections for your display device. From Blender.org: Blender 2.5 includes a first version of Color Management. Currently this is limited to ensuring Linear Workflow during the render pipeline [...]

Blender 2.5 Start your engines!!
Blenducation - 2009-12-05 03:02:53

From now until January 4th, you can get 3 of the recorded videos for a donation.That is right! You pick the price and get over 3 hours of videos covering Blender 2.5.

The cost of these videos will change after the first of the year so get these three now. Happy Holidays!

You get Sebastian’s smoke demo (under 45 minutes), Lees animation demo (almost 2 hours) and ZanQdo (spline rigging and more)

Tickets sales have ended but never fear! Blenducation will make the recordings available. Those that attended will get a link free.

(For a donation you can order all the videos in this series, that is right, you pick the price*!)

Growing as a Person
ArtofInterpretation.com: Recent Images RSS Feed - 2009-12-05 03:00:00

From my Surreal series. Technical note: Pure Blender internal render.

Blender 2.5 – r25133 – SSE optimisation for Renderer, Part II
Letwory Interactive - 2009-12-05 00:38:22

So, I thought I had done nice optimised builds, but it turned out that SIMD optimisation was missing. I’ve now committed some SCons support for this though. The optimisations can now be turned on by building with scons using WITH_BF_RAYOPTIMIZATION=True.

I have re-uploaded 32bit and 64bit builds to graphicall.org that now have SSE optimisation for the renderer enabled.  You should now be able to successfully use SIMD QBVH and SIMD SVBVH, which would print that SSE was disabled during compile time when using the previous builds I posted.

To use any of the optimisations, check the Performance panel in render settings. The Auto setting tries to select the best optimisation strategy, but you can choose any of the other ones too. Octree is what we know from the previous Blender series, all the new names are from the GSoC work done by André Susano Pinto (jaguarandi).

• win32 build
• win64 build