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  • Realistic rain with dynamic paint
    MiikaHweb blog feed - 2010-09-17 20:20:59

    I got inspired by my previous paint video, so I decided to try Dynamic Paint with a bit heavier scene.

    Result, Realistic Rain:


    It features total 500.000 rain particles. Cool thing is that the ground visual is all material+texturing, generated with Dynamic Paint. Every single wet spot and splash is real interaction with those 500.000 particles!

    Making of is quite simple: paint texture affects ground darkness and specular, plus a fast drying wetmap is used as bump texture and to add those white splashes.

    This scene also helped Blender become more stable. I found a quite nasty particle system bug while trying to render this. After reporting it to jahka it got fixed. :)
  • Renderfarm.fi enters the finals of MindTrek 2010!
    Renderfarm.fi - 2010-09-17 14:10:04

    The week ends on a very high note. I'm more than excited to announce that we've been chosen as one of the six finalists for this year's MindTrek Launchpad competition. This is a huge thing for us as the event is probably the most well-known IT/multimedia competition in Finland. The MindTrek webpages say:

    Have you invented the next big thing? Do you have a transforming media service or technology innovation that can change the way we live? Or just a too good digital content business concept?

    The MindTrek LaunchPad competition awards innovative new Finnish digital media products or demos – and the people behind it, who have the urge to make it big.

    Competition Prizes and a Big Promise

    The total prize sum in the competition is 20 000 €. The main jury of industry experts will award the most promising business case (15 000 €), the press jury is going to emphasize the innovativeness of the product (4 000 €), and also the audience will choose its own favorite (1 000 €). Apart from the sizable prize money, Mindtrek is probably the best venue in Finland for promoting the service and the open values it advocates.

    So what is our business case? I can tell you what it is not - we will never sell your volunteer computing time for cash. Renderfarm.fi is and always will be free and open for everybody to use. We'll reveal the plan once we work out the details and you'll be among the first to know about it. Meanwhile, I hope you all wish us the best of luck - we're going to need it! This money would go a long way in helping us in making Renderfarm.fi the most accessible free renderfarm of all time. As always: thank you all for your continued support. :)

  • Looking for Character “polisher”
    Materia - The Awakening - 2010-09-17 14:03:50

    Okay so this is the deal. We got 3 faces and one body ready for on Mesh level. Now they need texturing and finishing touches to be render and Rigging ready. Turns out however that we are low on people who can deliver this task with proper skills needed. So here is request for you all…

    Cany ou or do you know anyone who can texture characters and finalize these meshes?

    Help would be much appreaciated. If you are interested and think you can pull this task off, contact us via

    IRC #materia @ irc.freenode.net

    email: samuli.jomppanen gmail com

    This is one of the most important chars that needs finishing.

  • Bullet SoC - Still researching the "brick wall" scenario + Potential Solutions
    Aligorith's Lair - 2010-09-17 12:57:00

  • Rendering Elephants Dream in Stereoscopic 3D
    BlenderNation - 2010-09-17 11:00:00

    Wolfgang Draxinger tells us he’s going to re-render Elephants Dream in stereoscopic 3D. To do this he patched Blender 2.41 since it’s the only version that will render Elephants Dream so...

    [read the full article on blendernation.com]
  • Blender classes in National School of Architecture in Grenoble, France
    BlenderNation - 2010-09-17 05:39:37

    Matthieu Dupont de Dinechin tells us about his 3rd Blender training for the students of National School of Architecture of Grenoble in France. His course is about free form conceptional buildings....

    [read the full article on blendernation.com]
  • Series: Modeling a Shipping Container part 02
    Blender Cookie - 2010-09-17 01:18:04

    In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial we model a shipping container as a hard-surface modeling exercise. This second section covers the initial creation of the door panels, hinges, and some tweaking around the model. Support the site – Download includes: High resolution .mov Video .blend file at the state of the tutorial

    http://blendercookie.com
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