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Twitter: 2010-01-12
mke3.net - Matt Ebb - lighting/shading/td/code - 2010-01-11 23:01:00

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Interview: Jean-Sèbastien Guillemette
Blender Tutorials Downloads Videos & Education - Blender Cookie - 2010-01-11 22:44:24

The majority of people in the Blender community know your name and the work is represents, but who do you see yourself as? Who is Jean-Sébastien? What makes him tick? Would it be sad if I answer that what makes me tick is 3D itself? Hehe! Actually, everything that my life consist of revolves around art.  In [...]

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Some of the ads I’ve been working on at DeShed
Montage Studio - 2010-01-11 21:16:57

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to share a few project with you guys. In the past few months I’ve been working at Deshed in Montréal. As a studio we mostly work on ads for different company. Some of them full CG, others with vfx work. I didn’t work on all of them. But I want to showcase the work of my collegues from DeShed. Truly great artists over there! Here’s a few of the projects:

Coca-Cola Olympic Polar bear:

• http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=41518

“Les obligations d’epargnes du canada” for the goverment of Canada:

• http://www.deshed.com/s/Geese/OiesFR_AvecLogo_17b.mov

And lastly, one I took major part in: “Le Rigodon” for IGA:

• http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=41517

They also made the front page of www.xsibase.com if you want to go take a look!

I hope you like them!

Next step: Amsterdam

Jean-Sébastien Guillemette

Octane Render: Fully GPU Unbiased render engine
Blender 3D Architect - 2010-01-11 20:41:14

It was made public yesterday the existence of a new renderer called Octane Render. This is new software that works with Unbiased render algorithms in a different way than we are used to interact. If you have already used LuxRender or Indigo Render, both using unbiased render methods, you know how realistic the rendered images [...] Related posts:

1. Arion: Another GPU based unbiased render engine A couple days ago I was talking about the announcement...
2. LuxRender may use GPU power in the future Since the announcement of Octane Render last monday a lot...
3. News about GPU rendering with LuxRender, YafaRay, iRay and Maya In the past few days a lot of interesting news...

Dragon Baby Model, 2nd Stage, progress
Durian Open Movie Project - 2010-01-11 19:24:28

Just a brief update on Dragon Baby Model: Stage 2 is in progress and nearly complete. This stage involves further topology refinement & finalizing the model for rigging/animation use.  Here are some quick screen captures of my work in progress…

Sculpting details to follow in Stage 3.

- Angela

ETA June 16th
digital janitor - 2010-01-11 18:17:00



boy? girl? fish? tiger? :)

cmiVFX-tutorial: V-Ray Introduction - The Blender Connection
- 2010-01-11 16:39:56

Hey! Remember my enthusiastic post about the VRay-export-script for Blender? http://3dzentrale.com/?p=399 Well, it seems my enthusiasm had a side-effect: I couldn’t help but produce a tutorial of how to get started with VRay and Blender. :-) So here it is: a V-Ray Introduction - The Blender Connection In over 2 hours i explain the basics, installation, render settings, materials [...]

Creating Procedural Noise Textures that are Stable During Animation
Vimeo / Blender3D [Tutorial] - 2010-01-11 09:23:08

In this quick tip, we'll take a look at how to easily create a procedural noise texture that's stable during animation, unlike the default "Noise" procedural texture that's available in Blender.

Cast: Wes Burke