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graphicall: Blender Alpha 2 (2.52) has been announced, based on [27226], due to a bad bug introduced in 2.51 (textures get lost in some cases), update!
Twitter / graphicall - 2010-03-02 20:51:02

graphicall: Blender Alpha 2 (2.52) has been announced, based on [27226], due to a bad bug introduced in 2.51 (textures get lost in some cases), update!

Demo: Indirect Lighting in Blender 2.5 Alpha 1
BlenderNation - 2010-03-02 19:00:39

Here’s a short demonstration video of indirect lighting in Blender 2.5 Alpha 1. There are no lights in these scenes – all light is emitted by the geometry. jason7 wrote: I wanted to test the new indirect lighting feature in alpha 1 so i create some scenes and combined them in this video. No lights were used in [...]

WebCam Palette
Akta's Way - Blog - 2010-03-02 14:45:18

Hi folks!

This is the outcome of some experiments I’ve been doing lately using C++, Qt and OpenCV, the computer vision library. The goal of this software is rather simple, but handy!

When you launch the .exe a window is shown on your screen. Press start to open the connection to your webcam and start acquiring frames from it. Then drag selections over the webcam window to select the area, when you release the mouse button the software will calculate the selection’s average rgb pixel component and it will show it in the main small window in three separated text fields. So obviously watch out what you select to get right color there (btw the color is shown also on the top left corner of the webcam window)

Why use this small piece of software? Well personally sometimes I wanted to know: which color is my sweater? Or, whoa, I like the color on this book/flower/pen/muffin etc etc, but what could it be? Well now I can find my answer with this software just putting the object in front of the webcam and selecting the region of interest. As I said is a small piece of software, but handy for any kind of graphic app, Blender shaders and materials included!

You can download the software here, it’s in a zip file, unpack it wherever you wish and launch WebCamPalette.exe.

Yeah, before you start giving me the f%&#&ng MS supporter/developer, I can upload the sources and you can compile them yourselves on your favourite platform, however you need them to have also the OpenCV libraries compiled for the OS on which you are going to run WCP.

animation practice
digital janitor - 2010-03-02 09:50:00

"freeway" blocking from Stefan Andersson on Vimeo.

After I've put the kid to sleep each night I have about 1 hour before I pass out myself :) It will be a long process, but I'm gonna try and stick with it and do some animation practice (as I don't get to animate as much as I want to at work).

Nordic Game Jam
Elvis Alistar's Blog - 2010-03-02 08:51:07

It’s been one month since Nordic Game Jam ended, but it fells like it was only yesterday. Nordic Game Jam is part of the Global Game Jam, a competition where professional and indie developers spent 48 hours creating a game with a specific theme and requirements. Nordic Game Jam took place in Copenhagen, Denmark and [...]

graphicall: Interview to David "Dade" Bucciarelli from LuxRender dev team http://www.3d-test.com/interviews/opencl_1.htm
Twitter / graphicall - 2010-03-02 08:28:37

graphicall: Interview to David "Dade" Bucciarelli from LuxRender dev team http://www.3d-test.com/interviews/opencl_1.htm

In-Between Ends
Blender Art Gallery - 2010-03-02 07:17:02

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Student 3D Short Film. Enjoy

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In-Between Ends
BlenderNation - 2010-03-02 06:00:37

by Alex Glawion From the same person who brought us the beautiful Evolution and A Glimpse of Light comes another absolutely breathtaking piece: In-Between Ends. Alex writes: I have been working on a new 3D Short Film since my last Short Film “Evolution”. Its title is “In-Between Ends”. As always it has been created entirely in Blender (2.49b).

Tip: Creating Insets with Smooth and Extrude
Blender Cookie - 2010-03-02 04:02:45

In this quick Blender 2.5 tip video we show you how to easily create insets in your mesh. This technique uses the Extrude Individual Faces and Smooth tools.

http://blendercookie.com

Weekly update February 22-March 1
Freestyle integration into Blender - 2010-03-02 00:22:40

Since the last blog post, the dev team was digging into Blender’s render pipeline with the aim of addressing an instability issue regarding animation rendering.  The issue was that animation rendering was very instable when Freestyle was enabled. After lots of code reading and a number of attempts for resolving the problem, the cause of [...]

Create Realistic Cracks in 2 minutes
Blender Guru - 2010-03-02 00:00:12

A few months ago I was modeling the building for my earthquake animation, when I stumbled across any easy way to create realistic cracks without pesky scripts, or plug-ins. It’s simple, easy, and it uses a powerful tool built right into blender. Trust me, when you see it you’ll be kicking yourself!

It is perfect for rubble, ceramics or splitting any object in two.

I am a man of my word. This video will literally take less than two minutes to watch:

Did you catch all that? Hope it wasn’t too fast!