Improved Drag and Drop in Blender 2.5
Recently a lot of work has gone into making drag and drop more stable and
far more usful which means being able to drag items from outside
blender.
Blender Developer Meeting Minutes May 9, 2010
Last week the meeting made a decision on switching the default for .blend file reading to always accept Python scripts .
Blender Benchmark: 2.49 vs 2.50 alpha 2
Elephantatech has pitted blender 2.49 and 2.52 alpha 2.50 alpha 2 in a benchmark test. Both render speeds and render quality have significantly improved.
Blender Benchmark: 2.49 vs 2.52a
Elephantatech has pitted blender 2.49 and 2.52 alpha in a benchmark test. Both render speeds and render quality have significantly improved.
LuxRender 0.7RC2 Released
The LuxRender team are getting closer to the 0.7 release. Here's an overview of the changes since their last 'stable' release, 0.6.1.
Sintel: logo chosen
From a huge stream of community-proposed logos, the Sintel team have chosen Nick Bueltge's version.
Dragon
Ekakiya writes:
Hi!I made a short animation for SICF11(Japanese art event at Omotesando Tokyo).
Here is my post on Blender forum.
I made this animation with Blender2.5A2, used procedural-base rock.
G-Blender Spanish Blender 3D community online again
After six months of being offline, G-Blender, the Blender 3D spanish community, is back online again. Thanks to our generous sponsors for hosting and bandwidth : Sandino Networks.
Fracture script + tutorial
There is a great script for fracturing meshes,
you can paint the cracks for the mesh.
Froggy is back! Italian Blender Short
"Froggy is back" by Reibe Studios will have its premiere on May 20 in Catania, Italy
Blenders Best Balls?
A fun little competition (for status) to design the best renders of a sphere. What can you do with a sphere?
The Promise
Luca Pinciani wrote:
The Promise is a 6 minutes long short-film developed in 3D animation by Luca Pinciani. It was developed with the productive support of Melazeta s.r.l.
Ten 2010 Google Summer Of Code Projects for Blender!
Google is generously sponsoring 10 students to work on Blender this summer, here are the accepted students and proposals and their mentors.
Timing and Spacing in Animation Explained! Webinar
Though Animation Mentor has sold out its webinar Give Meaning to Movement: Timing and Spacing in Animation Explained!
Blend Magz Issue .04 is Available!
Hiza Ro and the Blender Indonesia Army have done it again! Check out the latest issue of Blend Magz, Issue .04!.
Inside Pixars Leadership
A very frank and mature discussion about creative leadership with Ed Catmull (president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios).
Inside Pixar's Leadership
Probe visual effects breakdown shot #25
Joel Gerlach wrote:
Work continues on the film, using Blender for our VFX shots as I explained in my last message.
Speed modelling Marathon
"On Saturday the 1st of may, over on #smc in freenode, there is going to be an epic 24 hour speed modelling contest marathon."
Water dynamic surface in the Game Engine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSpDTVWVg-4
Bit Films Summer Internships
Bit Films (of Tube fame) have 6 new positions available for a summer internship from June 1 September 3 in Hampshire. Three of them are Blender specific.
Colorado User Meeting May 20th
Our second Colorado Blender User Group meeting is scheduled! Even with only 4 days notice (and only a day on BlenderNation) we had 7 Blenderheads at our first meeting!
Call for Content Blenderart #28
It's time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 28 of Blenderart Magazine.
The theme for this issue is Up to Speed with Blender 2.5+
Blending Life 2 Voting Open
All of you who entered made it really difficult for us judges this year! Well done and keep it up! Of 49 total entries we settled on five.
BLENDING LIFE 2 VOTING OPEN!
All of you who entered made it really difficult for us judges this year! Well done and keep it up! Of 49 total entries we settled on five.
City Zoning modification for Blended Cities script
Hi, my name is James Lethem and for the last year I have been working on my dissertation:
Call for Content Blenderart #28
It's time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 28 of Blenderart Magazine.
The theme for this issue is Up to Speed with Blender 2.5+
The Blender 2.
Durian: render farm arrived, logo design, Comicon
The Durian team is doing a GREAT job at keeping everyone informed through their blog!
Taste Lab
Hi, Chris Burton here back with another little movie. This one's about a little girl who has to test out soft drinks made by two rival chemists. All done in 2.5 Alpha 0.
Shoot holes in Big Buck Bunny
The HTML5 specification offers some nifty new possibilities for video manipulation.
Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 is close, dont miss it
The annual Libre Graphics Meeting conference is getting really close now. The event is taking place May 27-30 In Brussels, in De Pianofabriek.
