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first blender Cycle rendering test
Oenvoyage's Blender Blog - 2011-12-01 21:42:13

So, in the recent weeks, we have been seeing a huge income of renders using Cycles, the new rendering engine of blender…. I finally got some time yesterday evening to try something. Being not very inspired creatively speaking, the result is just what it is : a christmas inspired scene. It might be used as [...]

Neat Camera Switching Trick
BlenderNation - 2011-12-01 17:00:13

SpiritCrisis demonstrates how you can use the ‘Bind Camera to Markers’ feature to switch cameras during your animation. Neato!

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Showreel 2011
Vimeo / Blender 3D - 2011-12-01 14:29:38

Réalisé avec Blender, rendu avec Cycles.
musique: Atmosphere par Celestial Aeon Project
Made with Blender, render with Cycles.
soundtrack: Atmosphere by Celestial Aeon Project

Cast: Fabien APFFEL

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Required Reading: Poles and Loops
BlenderNation - 2011-12-01 14:00:40

This post by Toontje is almost 4 years old, but it does a GREAT job at explaining some of the pitfalls and fixes of incorrect geometry. Some of the images have gone missing – you can also...

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Submission period closed!
Mango - Open Movie project - 2011-12-01 13:47:56

Hi all,

Thanks for all the great portfolios :) Haven’t counted them precisely yet – Sebastian will make a nice spreadsheet – but it’s over 110 submissions I think.

For everyone who sent in an application, you should have had an email from me to confirm it. If you didn’t, send me a reminder! We will try to get the final answers for candidates in a week… will be tough again!

Procedure: we will select people who get invited immediate, and people who will be put on a waiting list… we cannot fully predict yet how much time people are available, how much they’re needed, and how much work and time we are going to spend on Mango in general.

More news: Ian has been producing several crazy insane cool concepts (including robotic Anne Franks). His last proposal seems to have beaten all previous ones though… when I read it I felt like a rabbit caught in headlights. It’s tough stuff to picture yet, needs to be broken down and analyzed well. Now… should I tell more? Nah. ;)

-Ton-

Blender Conference 2011 Videos Online
BlenderNation - 2011-12-01 12:00:47

Videos of the Blender Conference 2011 are being uploaded now! Enjoy :)

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“Keyframe” at the “Fête des lumières”, Lyon
BlenderNation - 2011-12-01 09:00:49

Blender was used in the research phase of this art installation for the “Fête des lumières” (Festival of Lights) in Lyon, France. The festival is from December 8-11. skuax writes: Hello Blender world. It’s time for me to talk about … Continue reading →

10 Great Free Resources for Indie Game Developers
BlenderNation - 2011-12-01 08:33:50

Mixamo, provider of motion capture data for characters and clever automatic rigging, has published an overview of 10 free (some as in beer, some as in speech) tools and repositories for game developers (and for any other 3D designer, I’m … Continue reading →

The Producer's Report #149 - Thank's For Your Support!
Phil McCoy's Posts - Project London - 2011-12-01 06:55:20

To everyone who contributed to and supported our recent campaign:

On behalf of Nathan, Ian, the cast and crew, and myself, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support of Project London. We aren’t going to let the fact that we didn’t achieve our fundraising goal slow us down. We are going to press on and finish Project London as quickly as we can.

Have no fear, all the perks will be honored. Have no fear, we will find a way to finish the sound track and the color correction. People have come forward, and are coming forward with ideas and solutions to help us reach our goal.

You can count on us to continue to provide updates from www.projectlondonmovie.com and Facebook. We expect to provide you with some very good news in just a few weeks. Thank you so much for your faith and belief in our project, and your willingness to help us across the finish line. We look forward to sharing that great moment with you in the near future.

Sincerely,

Phil McCoy, Executive Producer
on behalf of Ian Hubert (left), Writer Director, and Nathan McCoy (far right), also Executive Producer and Phil McCoy (middle).

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PyGTK Documentation Rant
Aligorith's Lair - 2011-12-01 04:01:00

So, continuing on my series about PyGTK, today I'm going to be discussing one of those issues which every new users of some tool or toolset comes across (hopefully, if it even exists): documentation.

Fortunately, in this case, they DO have some documentation. Heck, they've got some tutorials and a reference manual. On the surface it's all well and good, until you start running into a few things which start to become gradually more annoying as time goes by.

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Process to Go – Episode 11
processdiary.com - 2011-12-01 03:54:35

NOT the final episode!

While work is moving from one client to another, I still have to get to my goal for this small series. So I’m going to get to finalizing the thumbnails for the 8 pages before signing off and moving onto the next phase.

In the meantime, I have a couple of “hero” sketches:

Next week, there will be a video tutorial showing my process using GIMP, Sketchbook Pro and Blender. The next “Process to Go” episode will be posted on Thursday.

Download audio file (TPD_P2G_ep11.mp3)