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The Blender Show - 2010-02-09 22:58:52


Ian outlines information access from historical and technological contexts.

Walking Robot
Vimeo / Blender 3D - 2010-02-09 22:51:06

Just a test render from Blender (blender.org/​)

Cast: Nick Howes

Tags: blender, 3d and animation

Tip: Copying User Settings in Blender 2.5
Blender Cookie - 2010-02-09 22:45:48

This quick Blender 2.5 tip video demonstrates an easy way to copy over your settings from previous testing builds of Blender 2.5 to the latest build you have downloaded.

http://blendercookie.com

New BAM translated issues available #18 French, #24-25 Russian
BlenderArt Magazine - 2010-02-09 20:57:03

This week, we’re proud to announce several new translated issues of Blenderart Magazine. The French translation team has released issue #18 and the Russian translation team has released issues #24 & #25 now available for download on the issues page.

Special thanks to both groups for their dedication & translation skills, and for helping us reach out to more Blender users!

graphicall: J-key render switching back, now with 10 slots! by Brecht in [26747]
Twitter / graphicall - 2010-02-09 19:49:27

graphicall: J-key render switching back, now with 10 slots! by Brecht in [26747]

SIGGRAPH Selects Carnegie Mellon’s Don Marinelli as a Keynote Speaker
BlenderNation - 2010-02-09 19:10:04

(Chicago, IL) – ACM SIGGRAPH announces the selection of Don Marinelli, a leading Carnegie Mellon scholar and educator, to give one of its keynote presentations at SIGGRAPH, the 37th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Sunday 25 July – Thursday, 29 July 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los [...]

Fresh Batch of Cookies
Blender Cookie - 2010-02-09 13:18:37

Inspiration comes from everywhere and  with our Fresh Batch postings here on the CG Cookie network we are hoping to capture or find that bit of inspiration around the internet or in reality. If there is an interesting photograph, render, or painting we will work to share it out. Fresh Batch’s will come out of [...]

http://blendercookie.com

CGenie CG Survey 2010
BlenderNation - 2010-02-09 10:24:25

The CGenie CG Survey 2010 is now online. It previously gave Blender a lot of good PR, so please take a moment and fill it out. Be honest, and don’t just give ‘Blender Fanboy’ answers ;-)

“Gosh, that we can do this too!”
Big Buck Bunny - 2010-02-09 09:38:08

The Noordbrabants Museum, one of the main modern art museums in southern Netherlands, opened recently an exhibit “Fantasy Factory”, where BBB has a permanent display. This morning, the Dutch national news paper Volkskrant posted a positive review on this exhibit, ending with some words about BBB. Freely translated:

“From paper cutting to fast 3D-film”

“Radically different than for example the model-handicraft from van Kaayk, is Big Buck Bunny from the Netherlands computer graphics teacher Sacha Goedegebure, a comedy about a fat rabbit taking revenge on three irritating rodents. The film - in the fastest imaginable 3D computer animation - almost seems like being produced by Blue Sky studios, the producer of Ice Age 1-2-3, so natural and precise as the rabbit hairs wave in the wind.
Gosh, that we can do this too, you then think a while. And understandable that the eyes of the kids hanging in the beanbags of the theatre are glued on this Dutch rabbit humour.”

Ain’t this a fun review! :) Kudos to all who made BBB of course, it’s certainly not just a Dutch film… but we knew that!

-Ton-

Weekly update February 1-7
Freestyle integration into Blender - 2010-02-09 00:32:45

Now that the instability issues listed in the new to-do list have been mostly addressed, the next target is to recover missing features enumerated in the to-do list.  To begin with, the dev team was working on transparent stroke colors during the last week. In Freestyle, strokes to be rendered are represented with triangle strips.  Stroke colors [...]