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AniSculp technique - using the sculpt tool for animation

13 hours 30 min ago
Daniel MArtinez Lara (psl/pepeland) has just uploaded a couple of videos showing how to use Blender's sculpt tool for animation using blend shapes.  The results look quite promising! Daniel...

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Mini Quiz

Wed, 11/19/2008 - 21:21
Spot anything slightly familiar on planet-positive.org ?

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Demo Reel : Oliver Perfumo

Wed, 11/19/2008 - 16:01
Oliver Perfumo has made a nice demo reel worth checking out. It features his work from the past 3 years, set to a pretty catchy song. The T-Rex sequences are particularly impressive. Oliver...

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Blender Party Nagoya Japan, Nov 29

Tue, 11/18/2008 - 18:00
The Japanese Blender community is planning a party on Saturday, November 29th. Tony Mullen writes: I wanted to let people know about an upcoming event in the Japan Blender community. On Saturday,...

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ResourceSpace: Open Source Asset Management for Blender

Tue, 11/18/2008 - 12:00
ResourceSpace is a web-based, open source digital asset management system, with a twist: it will dynamically render previews of Blender files, making it a great solution for Blender Asset Management....

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On-line Spanish Blender course

Tue, 11/18/2008 - 06:00
The Excellence Center in Free Software of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), has created an on-line course of 20 hours to teach the use Blender. The course starts at February 23rd, and costs €60 for...

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CGChallenge 23 - Steampunk Myths and Legends

Mon, 11/17/2008 - 19:55
CGChallenge have announced their 23rd challenge, themed 'Steampunk Myths and Legends'. Steampunk is the application of advanced steam age technology to a modern or science fiction...

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Blender to RenderMan: Aqsis/Air Depth-Mapped Occlusion using multiple light rigs

Mon, 11/17/2008 - 12:15
Here's something we don't *nearly* write enough about on BlenderNation: the Aqsis RenderMan compliant renderer, and the MOSAIC plugin that allows Blender and Aqsis to work together. Eric...

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NPR rendering with Blender/Freestyle

Sun, 11/16/2008 - 14:48
Tamito Kajimaya (T.K.) has created some test videos with Blender using the Freestyle renderer and he has come up with some great results! Tamito writes: As one of many people who grew up with the...

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Blender used in Australian 'Good Game Game'

Sat, 11/15/2008 - 08:55
Zac Duff won an internship at Good Game, a TV show in Australia, and Blender played a big part in his workflow. A prototype of the game will be released later this week. Zac reports. Zac wrote: On...

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Apricot DVDs Ready!

Fri, 11/14/2008 - 15:38
Yep, that's right. The shiny new Apricot DVDs are ready and are now at the Blender Institute, arriving today from the printing factory. Ton explains on the Apricot blog page that tomorrow the...

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Happy Birthday, Blenderzin!

Fri, 11/14/2008 - 07:24
Earlier this week the German Blender magazine 'Blenderzin' had his (her?) its first birthday. Congratulations! For German readers, it might be worth knowing that they also have a German...

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New Feature in development: texture nodes

Thu, 11/13/2008 - 19:59
The texture node system is a project to integrate a node-based texture generator into Blender. Rob wrote: Hi, your readers might be interested to know that texture nodes have been committed to SVN...

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