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Woah! Three years have already passed since I began a small experiment in blogging :). Time for a birthday present!
Maybe you remember our previous fundraiser where we donated 1 classroom, 4000 hot meals, 2 goats, 1 alpaca and 3 animal care kits to a Third World country? That was great, but when tax time came it became hell for me because I had to sort out all the donations with my bookkeeper ;-)
Still, I want to do something similar again - use the size and enthusiasm of this community to do good for others. Just with less tax headache.
Continue Reading 'BlenderNation now three years old! Help us make a difference' »
The Linux Foundation is hosting a contest to create an "I'm Linux" commercial. Grand prize: a trip to Tokyo! Deadline is March 15, 2009.
Continue Reading '"I'm Linux" Video Contest, win a trip to Tokyo!' »
From the entire team: the best wishes for 2009! What are your hopes for Blender this year?
Leonarda Sala (see also his 'Mikrobitus') sent in a nice New Years e-card. Enjoy!
Here's a *really* nice form of interactive 3D advertising, and it looks like they did the 3D design in Blender.
Continue Reading 'Ad Displays 3D Car in Augmented Reality' »
As much as this sounds like another open source project, it's not. Rather, The Emily Project is a very impressive life-like human representation by Image Metrics.
Green Button has just announced their rendering services for Blender. Using the python script that they provide, you will have a rendering consul inside Blender which you use to upload your file to their servers. They currently have access to over 2000 processors in New Zealand and an additional 1000+ in Australia and they are currently working with some very large data center providers in the US to add more thus giving you major studio sized rendering support.
Continue Reading 'Green Button Announces Render Support for Blender!' »
Oscar Alvarado (of Gothique Studios) has released a teaser trailer of his new animated short, "Le Monsieur, Le Vampire et Renee Marcelle", animated by Oscar Alvarado and Martha Vaquera. The video looks quite promising!
Continue Reading 'Teaser for "Le Monsieur, Le Vampire et Renee Marcelle"' »
The planetarium of the Weber State University uses Blender to create content for their full-dome digital projector. Rendering for this screen requires a Fisheye camera, for which they have created and released a camera rig.
Continue Reading 'Ott Planetarium Releases New Fisheye Camera Rig' »
The Nurbana NURBS code is being integrated into Blender and the developers could use a hand!
Great news! Ton posted an update about Blender 2.5 and it's sounding great! (Thanks to Tim Suess for the head's up!) Here's a little snippet of the report:
Christmas Eve is about to begin here, so let's dress up BlenderNation with some great Holiday Seasons headers! I picked 27 designs from this weeks contest and put them on the site - almost everyone's a winner this time! A new one will be shown each hour, so keep reloading to see if you're in it ;-)
Merry Christmas!
Blender and Big Buck Bunny have made the 12th place of the annual CG Retrospective! Their description is touching:
Here is a wonderful example of technical and artistic selflessness that in fact built this industry. Well done guys, thank you.
A heartwarming, well-deserved praise for everyone involved! Check it out here.
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