Planet Blender

The Ian Report #485 - Hurrah!
Ian Hubert's Posts - Project London - 2010-02-25 18:32:01

Occasionally I feel like a broken record, but Nate Taylor has yet again delivered a pretty mind-boggling animation. I wish you could see it—so that you could understand I'm not just always saying this—I really do. The physics and kinetic energy are just fantastic. Also, it's rendering out really well! Did I mention that this is the last shot? Or possibly last shot? That is on our list? Exciting!

We're doing tons of emails getting ready to start the big marketing campaign—seeing everything that's going on is crazy exciting. Press releases, publicity photos, album discussions, scheduling tour buses and dirigibles, 2billion-lumen moon projectors, everything good indy-film-marketing needs!

Hurrah!

Ian Hubert
Writer Director

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Topology Review: Hand
Blender Tutorials Downloads Videos & Education - Blender Cookie - 2010-02-25 18:23:40

In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial we give you a demonstration and overview of clean hand topology. The tutorial provides tips on how to structure your mesh, including clean topology, mesh flow and edgeloop density. Support the site – Download includes: High resolution .mov Video .blend file at the state of the tutorial

http://blendercookie.com

Thespian - O Robô Ator
4RTE DIGIT4L - 2010-02-25 18:11:00

O robô Thespian foi projetado pela empresa Engineered Arts como um meio de comunicação flexível. Com uma interface baseada na web, arquivos de controle de movimento, som e vídeo podem ser simplesmente carregados.

O vídeo abaixo, aborda esses principais aspectos, demonstrando como rotinas de seus movimentos podem ser criados usando o Blender 3D, dando movimento ao robô real! Impressionante, não?

Switching to Kubuntu
harkyman.com - 2010-02-25 16:14:14

So I’ve been pretty happily using Ubuntu for over a year now — currently 9.04 on my laptop and 9.10 on my desktop. I got to looking at some of the great desktop setups that you can do with the Plasma (KDE 4.0) desktop, and wondered how hard it would be to switch to using KDE on my machines. As my desktop is my test bed, I went for it on there. It turns out that it’s ridiculously easy to switch. Just enter “sudo apt-get intall kubuntu-desktop” from a console. 480MB of download later and it’s done. I just love how easy it is to do things like this with Debian/Ubuntu.

Thus far, I’m very happy with it. I like the options and such way better than the Gnome ones presented with the default Ubuntu install. Look and feel fits the way I like to work better, too. In fact, after several days of using Kubuntu on my desktop, I’ve also switched over with my laptop. This isn’t to bust on the Gnome desktop or anything. It was fine for a long time for me. After a suitable acclimation period (like, a day) though, I have KDE working in a way that really suits me.

Having to deal at home with supporting Windows XP, Windows 7 (which ain’t bad) and a Mac makes me appreciate the ease and elegance with which I can administer my two Linux computers. The Mac’s not bad, but trying to get those Windows machines to place nice is really taxing me.

A bug solved!
Tinker Code - 2010-02-25 14:26:12

Thanks to the community feedback I fixed yesterday an initialization bug in my patch that was causing blender crashing on new particle systems when the emitters haven’t had previously assigned materials. I also changed a few things a bit to be more consistent with future changes here’s the corrected patch: http://www.pasteall.org/11270/diff ..and also a new [...]

Blender added to Ubuntu’s ‘Featured Apps’
BlenderNation - 2010-02-25 12:22:46

Blender has reportedly been added to the list of ‘Featured Apps’ in Ubuntu 10.04’s Software Center. I’m not an Ubuntu user so I can’t confirm this – anyone? (via Kasper Holst)

RoboThespian
BlenderNation - 2010-02-25 06:00:33

Will Jackson, Director at Engineered Arts Limited writes: Background RoboThespian started life in 2005 as a rudimentary ‘robotic puppet’, and over years of intensive experimentation has developed into a sophisticated and complex creation, drawing on the talents of dedicated engineers, designers and organisers working to continually improve software, electronics, mechanical design and conceptual development. It is at [...]

Anime Boston 2010
Morevna Project - 2010-02-25 01:20:50

The Ubuntu Massachusets Local Community Team is making an ambitious effort to bring anime fans to the world of Open Source at the  Anime Boston 2010 convention. At their booth in the dealers’ room they plan to hand out Ubuntu LiveCDs and copies of the Ubunchu Manga, do some cool demonstrations, perform live installations and… whoa! They’re going to promote the Morevna Project and its production tools!

From my personal experience (as part of both Linux and anime communities) I can tell that for some strange reason anime fans have a natural aptitude towards Open Source and vice versa. It’s a good step to make them closer and this event may have a great impact on projects like Morevna, because the more anime fans will use Open Source tools – the more prospective contributors we have around. ^__^

The event is entirely community funded and they need your support. Please visit the event homepage for details.