Soenke Maeter takes us through the process of creating his mystical city for the Blender World Conference.

Continue Reading 'Making of Reaching Out' »

A beautiful animation by Alex Glawion. Download the Quicktime version (recommended; playable in VLC) or watch in low-res on Vimeo. His demoreel is also worth watching, although I'm not too crazy about the robot.

"Help the Boros reclaim their precious artefact and solve the mystery of the Starlight Isles. You will face unique and challenging puzzles that will require all your logic and reasoning skills; often there is not just one solution to the problem you face."

Here's the introduction of one of the most original Blender games I've seen so far. It was created by a team of only five people during the high-profile British 'Dare to be Digital' contest.

We talked to Graham Ranson to find out how he and his team used Blender.

Continue Reading 'Boro-Toro: Blender game a winner in British 'Dare to be Digital' contest' »

"Video game enthusiasts from the Midlands have taken part in a project to create their own video game from scratch in Birmingham."

Continue Reading 'Gamers get creative - Blender on the BBC, again!' »

A team of Czech game developers have created WILL, a game to support the Czech athletes in the Paralympics games in Beijing 2008.

Continue Reading 'Paralympics Beijing: WILL the game' »

ProMotion studios (of Lighthouse and Slimers fame) have started an ambitious project: a 26 part animated TV series. Check out some early artwork!

Continue Reading 'Kajimba - a 26 part 3d animated series, made in Blender' »

Remember the 'Slimers' commercial by Promotion Studios? James Neale talks about the project's pipeline and Blender's role in it, how they rebuilt Blender to run on their 64 bit quad-cores machines with 8 gig ram (closed source apps, eat your heart out! ;-) and about trademarked Nickelodeon slime properties. A very cool read.

STUDIO XX, Feminist art centre for technological exploration, creation, and critique, is hosting their own Open Game project from October 2008 to June 2009 in Montréal, Canada. The program is built entirely around Blender. They're still looking for participants!

Continue Reading 'Open Game project in Montréal, Canada' »

Awesome artwork by Soenke Maeter from Germany. Soenke writes:

I created this one for the BWC2008. The composition is something i payed special attention to. It's rendered with Blender2.47 internal render and some postpro with Photoshop.

(Click on the thumbnail to enlarge). Original threads on CGSociety and BlenderArtists.

The new book 'Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish' by Roland Hess will start shipping on September 26. He just released the accompanying animation titled 'The Beast'.

Continue Reading 'Animating with Blender: How to Create Short Animations from Start to Finish' »

This animation by Oscar Paz made me smile. I hope you'll enjoy it!

Continue Reading 'Animation: Ketzalkoatl' »

Promotion Studios have finished a new commercial which include some cool Blender fluids.

Continue Reading 'Blender fluids used in TV commercial' »

Until recently the Blender art gallery has not been updated. So, I decided to do a bit of investigating, and find out what is going on with the minor update.

Continue Reading 'Blender Art Gallery' »

Peddie has recently finished a music video for the song 'Hopelessly In Love' by Guana. Blender was used to produce some of the effects seen in the video.

Continue Reading 'Music Video - Hopelessly In Love' »

Itsartmag has posted a nice making of interview on Promotion Studio's Lighthouse film. The article is a nice look behind the scenes and into the thought process of the short.

Continue Reading 'Itsartmag - Making of Lighthouse short' »

After last week's call for a new header we received almost 30 submissions! I've picked the 10 best and added them to the site.

All of them? Yes! Several people have suggested rotating through the header images automatically, so I've added this function to the site. Instead of displaying a new image with each pageview though, I've chosen to display a new image every day. That should make browsing faster and I think it's a bit easier on the eyes.

To see the 'winners', see below! (Oh, and adding new images is a breeze, so keep 'em coming!)

Continue Reading 'New Headers Selected, Header Rotator Added' »

What is a Wixel?

Continue Reading 'Wixel clouds' »

James duGard of Dragons Tale Films series of "virals" videos using Blender to promote  the "Go Elephants" artist series.

"We have 52 elephants, some vandals started kicking them in. I was asked to viral together to promote the elephants."

Continue Reading 'Elephants of Norwich, UK' »