Planet Blender

New More Ambitious 3D Blender Animation
Starbright Illustrations (blog) - 2009-09-03 19:29:57

I am itching to take my Blender animation skills to the next step, and as you can see from the illustration above I’m going to do it properly this time, with a storyboard and everything.

There are a bunch of things I want to better in this animation, compared with the first 3D animation I did with Blender. The first animation is set in a sort of virtual studio made up from a few rudimentary mesh planes as walls, but this time I want to create a groovy looking 3D environment with convincing looking grass.

The text on the first animation was a bit rough and ready too, so this time I want to create an animation with some graphically pleasing text and perhaps even a logo. I also want to have two animated mesh characters, so that there’s some interaction in the movie.

And there are a million niggling little other improvements I’ve suddenly decided not to bore all the readers of this blog with. Poor dedicated fools, they deserve some consideration.

In my last post I mentioned a book about animation that I planned to download from this page of cool Blender links, but the link didn’t work. I did however track the book down on Scribd, I wonder how legal the copy there is, but it turned out to be old school Disney animation. I thought it was going to be all shiny modern digital Pixar type Disney animation, oops. Needless to say I’ve kind of lost interest in it and I’m on to the next thing.

I mentioned before that I want grass in my next animation and one link on the resources page leads to some presets for Blender particles and it includes grass. Cool!

Blender - Blender 2.49b lançado!
4RTE DIGIT4L - 2009-09-03 18:11:00

Essa nova versão tem uma série de bugs corrigidos e contém algumas novas funcionalidades. O release log pode ser visto AQUI.

Blender 2.49b com Correções de Bugs
Blender Total - 2009-09-03 17:28:43

Foi liberada hoje durante a manhã uma atualização do Blender 2.49. Um tempo depois do lançamento da versão 2.49 foi lançada uma atualização (2.49a) com correções de erros, e agora a 2.49b vem, também, para corrigir bugs. Então nenhuma grande novidade neste lançamento, mas muitos erros corrigidos como lista essa página. O download pode ser [...]

Studio Lighting for YafaRay in Blender 3D
BlenderNation - 2009-09-03 17:00:11

Blender 3D Architect (Allan Brito) pointed me to an interesting tutorial on Yafaray.org on a generic Blender scene which creates great looking studio lighting with Yafaray. Blender 3D Architect writes: One of the most common environments to present 3d models is the so called studio setup, where we can find a 3d scene specially prepared like a [...]

Call for Content Blenderart #24
BlenderArt Magazine - 2009-09-03 16:59:59

It’s time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 24 of Blenderart Magazine.

The theme for this issue is “From Out of the Deep…”.

Part of the fun of being a 3d artist is getting to create things out of your imagination. And since little is actually know about the deeps of the oceans and seas, it provides a great environment for creative endeavors. It is also provides a challenging environment to light properly and apply believable underwater caustics.

So let’s fire up our imaginations and blender and create some amazing “From Out of the Deep…” projects. And don’t forget to share what you have created with us.

We are looking for:

Images, Animations & Games that contain or feature:

• Sea creatures
  • scary/dangerous
  • cute, exotic
  • fictional, realistic
• Underwater Scenes/Environments
  • caves, coral reefs, plant life
  • Underwater cities / sunken ships

Also wanted, great shaders, materials and node setups for great looking materials and effects.

Articles

Send in your articles to sandra
Subject: “Article submission Issue # 24 [your article name]”

Author guidelines are available here.

Gallery Images

As usual you can also submit your best renders based on the theme of the issue. As the theme of this issue is “From Out of the Deep…”, we are looking for underwater type images that show creatures, plant life and other oddities often found in the deep. Please note if the entry does not match with the theme it will not be published.

Send in your entries for gallery to gaurav
Subject: “Gallery submission Issue # 24″

Note: Image size should be of 1024x (width) at max.

Last date of submissions October 5, 2009.

Good luck!
Blenderart Team

Call for Content Blenderart #24
ThruDreamsgate's Blog - 2009-09-03 16:57:00

It’s time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 24 of Blenderart Magazine. The theme for this issue is “From Out of the Deep…”. Part of the fun of being a 3d artist is getting to create things out of your imagination. And since little is actually know about the deeps [...]

Running Shot
KICHAVADI - 2009-09-03 16:31:00

Anil is attacked by a deamon called "Kai devva"..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1IA1XT-VkI

Video Tutorial: Enhanced Reflections with HDR Images
Blender Newbies 3D Video Tutorials (Learn to Create 3D Graphics with Blender!) - 2009-09-03 15:16:00

Hello, in this Blender tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to enhance your reflections by using High Dynamic Range Images.



You'll learn how to

• map an image to your material's reflection channel to serve as a faked reflection
• map an HDR image to the World's texture space to simulate an environment for your reflective materials
• control the visibility, in the render, of the texture that's mapped to the World's texture space
• and more...

Check out the tutorial, hosted by BlenderCookie.com.

technorati tags: Blender3D, 3D, graphics, Blender tutorials

News: Blender 2.49b Released
Blender Newbies 3D Video Tutorials (Learn to Create 3D Graphics with Blender!) - 2009-09-03 14:06:00

Blender 2.49b is the latest stable release from the Blender Foundation. It contains lots of bug fixes and some new features!

You can get it, here.

And, you can check out the release log, here.

technorati tags: Blender3D, 3D, graphics, Blender tutorials

Blender 2.49b - Update!
- 2009-09-03 13:56:06

A bugfix-release of Blender 2.49 has just been released. It contains a lot of bug-fixes and a few new features like for example EDL-import.Just check the release-logs for details. I expect this to be the last version of Blender before the long anticipated 2.5. But then again, 2.48 was supposed to be the very last [...]

Blender 2.49b Released
BlenderNation - 2009-09-03 13:21:43

Blender 2.49b was released earlier today. 2.49b is a bugfix release and but also contains some new functionality. Ton Roosendaal writes: Even while a lot of energy and time goes to the 2.5 project, there is still love and care for the current stable version. In the past months a very impressive list of fixes has been [...]

Kajimba snippets
Kajimba - 2009-09-03 12:28:53

Kajimba is an ancient waterhole where, for thousands of years the animals of the Australian outback have gathered to seek shelter from the searing heat, and to drink.

So drink they did.

hi-res version

Blender 2.49b update release
Blender - 2009-09-03 11:07:00

Even while most time goes to the 2.5 project, we still keep the main sources stable. An impressive...

Blender World Cup 2009: 'The Other World'
BlenderNation - 2009-09-03 09:41:43

The Blender World Cup 2009 design contest has begun. This year's competition ends on the 1st Nov at 00:00 GMT. From the contest website: "I couldn't explain how, but I knew I was needed. I felt my mind being twisted and stretched as it was dragged into another world. For what… I don't know!" This year's topic is [...]

Links for 2009-09-02 [del.icio.us]
Matt Ebb - 2009-09-03 07:00:00

• The Cove (2009)

Tech Preview: Mechanical Sketch Drawing
BlenderNation - 2009-09-03 05:34:17

Mauge writes: As Blender itself is not good for Mechanical CAD, we are developing some CAD features over a 2.48a Blender Realease. Here's our first test. There is lot of work missing, you can see what it is done in info.txt project file. [Edit Bart: no idea where that file would be. Anyone?] Website: https://projects.blender.org/projects/mechanicblender

New tutorial about studio lighting for YafaRay in Blender 3D
Blender 3D Architect - 2009-09-03 02:03:53

One of the most common environments to present 3d models is the so called studio setup, where we can find a 3d scene specially prepared like a real photography studio. The advantage of this type of scene is that it is a way to show a 3d model in an abstract environment, just to present [...] Related posts:

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