Planet Blender v2 beta4 - 'Turning Pages'

“5 Things Blender Should Do”
NewVision Animation Studios - 2010-02-27 23:52:29

Earlier today I came across a rather interesting post on BlenderArtists. It linked to a blog post that gave a rather detailed outline of what the author thought Blender should do to be more industry-acceptable. Personally, I can see both sides of the argument. Yes, it can be frustrating if Blender isn’t compatible with other [...]
Cool new GIMP tutorial on Starbright
Starbright Illustrations - 2010-02-27 21:56:52

I’ve been meaning to add tutorials to Starbright Illustrations for a long time. I’ve been putting a lot of effort into learning programs like GIMP and Photoshop and trying to get good results, and I thought it would be a good idea to share what I have learned. I wouldn’t say that I’m a power user or a professional or anything, but I have spent some time with these apps, and I have gotten some results that I’m quite happy with from time to time.

So here it is, my first GIMP illustration tutorial, and it is of course a science fiction image.

It took me about three days to create the image and I was exporting images from GIMP at every significant stage using the Save for Web extension.

The tutorial that has appeared on the Starbright site is based on a series of posts about a GIMP illustration project from this blog – that’s right you read it here first – and the blog version, which spans three posts, is still probably the more detailed version.

The image was made with my Wacom Bamboo graphics pad, but it’s a while since I used it. It isn’t supported in the Linux kernel yet and since my Windows machine died that means it just won’t work any more. But I’ve got my eye on the Mandriva forum, and a few other places – whatever Google throws up really – so I’m hopeful that there’ll be a solution, a kernel patch, a driver or something of the sort soon.

It’s the only thing missing from my artistic arsenal though, overall I’m very happy with Linux in general and Mandriva in specific, so expect more tutorials soon, just not for the graphics tablet.
The Producer’s Report #105 - Huzzah!
Phil McCoy's Posts - Project London - 2010-02-27 18:00:00

It's done! It's done! The VFX list is finally done. Now on to more fun. We still have a lot of work to do including picture lock and sound design. Really fun stuff. The photo above features Half Acre Day at the final review for the mix on Multiply, their sizzling new track that will be featured in Project London as well as the new teaser clip that will be released soon. (L to R) Matt, Matt, Brin (mixer), Dusty, Paul. Love you guys. (Missed you Marty.)

Status of Visual Effects (VFX) Shots:
- Done! We declare victory. And now we exit the battlefield looting dead bodies as we go.
What's next? Picture lock, polishing, sound design, Starbucks, a quick nap, mixing, masterting, marketing, premiere, distribution, world domination. We are targeting a justice department anti-trust investigation as a measure of the success we seek. Yeah babies.
This is the space where you will see the next bit of tracking data and it will be around Sound Design.

Doom: “Chips. All over the floor.” (calculated by Ian)

This week’s recommendations:
- Ian: "Valluzzi"
- Jen: "The Hurt Locker" Awesome directing.
- Nate: "Bad” by The U2. It's good.
- Phil: "Bounty Blue" by Balloon Shop. Hilarious.
Cheers,

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

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Croatian Users & TOSMI presenting Bassam Kurdali
BlenderNation - 2010-02-27 13:29:13

Bassam Kurdali will make an appearance tomorrow at the net.kulture club in Zagreb, Croatia. He will talk about Tube and Blender 2.5. Tomislav Corak writes: On Sunday, 28.2.2010 in the net.kulture club MaMa in Zagreb, Croatian Blender User Group ‘BlenderHR’ and TOSMI are presenting one of the best Blender 3D artist and director of the [...]
dadat sclupt model
inblender - 2010-02-27 13:24:00

test sclupt dan multires dengan blender 2.51,
jumlah vertex yang digunakan 19juta vertex lebih, dengan sembilan multires.

donwload blend file -- >> DadatSclupt.rar
ukuran file 138Mb dalam rar, 233MB dalam blend.
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graphicall: New Indirect Lighting teasers, looking cleeean! http://pasteall.org/pic/1635 http://pasteall.org/pic/1636 I tested my self and its amazing..
Twitter / graphicall - 2010-02-27 11:14:45

graphicall: New Indirect Lighting teasers, looking cleeean! http://pasteall.org/pic/1635 http://pasteall.org/pic/1636 I tested my self and its amazing..
Chrome and Windows 7 64-bit
Art + Logic - 2010-02-27 00:51:00

I've been a big fan of using Google Chrome on Windows. The Mac beta is also coming along nicely (with the exception of how it runs Flash slowly). I've had to switch back to Firefox after switching to a Windows 7 64-bit system. Using Chrome will freeze the entire system, requiring holding down the power button to restart. After Googling (how ironic) I found this is not a new issue. Shame on Google for taking so long to resolve such a nasty bug.
Tube – Behind the Chaos Video
tube - 2010-02-27 00:05:46

The Tube Project’s Team wants to share with the community an video that show how is the life at the Nerdodrome and at Northampton. We are very happy working here toghether and we’re sure that you will figured that out after seeing the video!
So, that’s it! Check the video and make a comment!

We had a issue with the soundtrack of the video, in the first version I put a song without taking care about the copyright and license of it. So Fateh advice me that I should try to look for copyleft music on the internet, and I must say that it’s wasn’t an easy task!, but in the way to find the song we found a lot of sites and resources related to free music or copyleft music.
Here’s a few links that we want share!:
Jamendo
musicleft.net
nomag
sounds, loops, effects and more:
freesound.org
And again, thanks to The Art Punk Band to share the song that we use in the video.

Also we must say that all the video was edited in the blender 2.5 sequence editor.

Seems to be problems with Live Streaming so, here’s the link to download the video in .ogg format (Ogg/Theora). Only 4.2mb.
behind_the_chaos