3D

Here's an interesting look into both Blender's past and it's future: In an excerpt from a discussion on IRC, Ton Roosendaal explains about Blender's existing DNA and upcoming RNA structures. DNA powers an often overlooked Blender feature - it's amazing backward compatibility. Thanks to DNA you can read Blender files back to version 1.00! Ton writes: Q: [...]

We got many concerned reports about BlenderArtists.org being down. I just talked to Roel BlenderArtists.org and he's currently working on the issue. We'll keep you informed of his progress. Go Roel! Update: they're back!

Mustafa Hamurcu is a Blender animator from Turkey. He shows his latest work with a small peek behind the scenes. It's simple and effective work - nice! Mustafa Hamurcu wrote: Hi my name is Mustafa HAMURCU. I am a graphic designer at Kayseri / Turkey. I use blender 3d for modelling, animating and rendering for this Tv advertisement. Blender [...]

Here's an impressive list of 73(!) websites that offer free texture resources. More will be added in the future. Daniel wrote: I have created a blog with a list of websites that offer free textures. The list as of right now has 73 links. I will update the list whenever someone comments on the post. Hope this [...]

Elye wrote: Hi, I've recently completed a new music video for some local rappers I know. I did all the animation in Blender, even though it's 2D (or 2.5D). Thought you might like to check it out! I certainly do :) Very nice and professional work, thanks for sharing!

Ivan Hoffmann (digitalh) has made a case study on a great compositing technique for turning a day shot into a night shot - and he had to do the compositing work in a short amount of time.  For all you filmmakers out there, here's your chance to learn more about this very useful "Day to [...]

The Centre for Parallel Computing (CPC) at the University of Westminster, London are test-driving their 250-CPU Grid. It's built around Blender and they're inviting YOU to render your work there. Zsolt Lichtenberger wrote: We are the Centre for Parallel Computing (CPC) at the University of Westminster, London. As the name suggest, we are interested in parallel computing, [...]

Sebastian König has posted a very nice time-lapse video in which he models, a wasp. It touches many techniques including subsurfaces, IK and even a spot of grease pencil sketching.

In a life-changing opportunity for budding 3D artists, you could win a place on Futureworks' 32-week Foundation in Game Art course and kick-start your career when you enter our prize draw Have you ever seriously contemplated a career as a professional 3D...Read More

Francisco Ortiz sent in the following report: Brazilian institution SESC SP hosts a serie of events about Game Creation and Do It Yourself "D.I.Y". Events are free for all and includes workshops about open source and open hardware, performs, art exhibitions, games and much more: Blender 3D for example! :) We have workshops about the Game Engine [...]

An artist from Brazil called Leonardo Davi published on his blog, a great collection of tutorials about sculpting with Blender. The tutorial was meant to be his final project, for a degree in visual arts. In the tutorial he shows us how to model the head of a monster, in almost two hours of video. But, [...]

The naimation short No Quarter deals with the financial crisis of 1929, a subject that has become depressingly topical – but viewers using Mike Trent’s film as a historical and educational tool do so at their own risk. For his final project at the Vancouver...Read More

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In issue 112 of 3D World, Carles Piles shows you how to create a photoreal lizard skin texture in Photoshop. The tutorial explains the broad process, but you need the screen-capture videos linked below to see the full workflow. You can also download the scene...Read More

The news is spreading! Today, we received a message from Russia where Maksim Zinchenko translates all our news into Russian. Great job, Maksim! Maksim wrote: I'd like to inform BlenderNation that on my blog I translate all news of your site and some articles from English into Russian almost in real time (when I'm near my computer). [...]

Here is a report on Google Summer of Code Summit from Kent Mein.  Go ahead and read what he has to say Hello Fellow blender heads. It's been a couple of weeks now, but while the annual blender conference was going on, fellow Blender Developer Chris Want (Hos) and I were hanging out at Google with a [...]

Tony Mullen has posted a set of pictures from his latest workshop in Tokyo.

Here are two upcoming workshops at the end of this week and next week in Spain and Austria. Barcelona, Spain, December 1-3 & 9-10 Raimon Guarro wrote: Next week (1, 2, 3, 9, 10 december '08) Lab-Media will offer a Blender Introduction Workshop in his facilities. This workshop will cover basic issues about 3D and the translation of [...]

The Dark Scarab site has many tutorials for blender users, cover car modeling, cloth, etc. The tutorials are very detailed, one spanning 7 pages. There are also a few video tutorial on the site as well. Check out the tutorials in the link below. http://www.darkscarab.com/tutorials.html

The Chinese blog Crossmovie diligently translated our articles into Chinese. Hello unknown author - now YOU're on BlenderNation too! :) Would you care to introduce yourself to the community?