This is a 5 part tutorial from Jimmyon with total length of 60 minutes teaching low polygon modeling for game meshes. He is using GIMP and Blender 2.49. From the introduction of the video: This...

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Miika Hämäläinen has been developing a very interesting system to achieve a higher level of simulation realism. By allowing either meshes or simulations to affect textures’ value of nearby...

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I sat down for a one on one conversation with Bobby Beck CEO and President of Animation Mentor at this years SIGGRAPH conference. Prior to starting Animation Mentor Bobby had worked at Pixar...

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Remember Jesús A Olmos (Jaol) whose Butcher ranked the 2nd place from the Blending Life 2 contest, who also made this sci-fi woman on the right with Blender and ZBrush?  He told us he has been...

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This week’s meeting.  As usual a few subjects were discussed. This includes word wrapping, sequencer, new splash and etc. Ton Roosendaal writes: Hi all, Here are notes from today’s IRC...

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Eris Pakyayo writes: I have come across this post on BlenderArtists.org about a blender school in india. A truly inspiring story that deserves mention on BlenderNation! Uriel Deveaud posted this...

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Suzanne Awards and Blender Conference animation festival for 2010 were annouced. They are inviting film makers, artists, animators, designers or scientists to submit their works to be awarded in 3...

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nawabz wrote us about a nice video tutorial by David Ward from BlenderCookie.com. The video started by adding the default human meta-rig template then adding basic IKs for the arm and leg and a fews...

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Doug Hammond, the author of LuxBlend25 has compiled a screencast showing some of its core features and how well it integrates LuxRender into Blender 2.5. Thanks Doug! Here’s the video,

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Lukas Tönne is bringing the node system to the next level, by representing almost everything as nodes. From his previous work, his goal seems to be the improvement of the particle system but this new...

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Here are 2 games with different styles, Monster Truck Hero (PC/Mac) and No, Human (iPhone). Both games are Unity based. The first video, “No, Human” game play trailer: Monster Truck Hero,...

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An enjoyable little time-waster: test your Blender 2.5 knowledge with a Blender quizz. Right now there are four quizzes to take, and more will appear in the future. Demohero writes: Hi everybody. I...

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Reynante Martinez has published 4 very impressive detailed particle tutorials that cover if not everything you need to know about particle system. From getting start with basic parameters for both...

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Many readers sent leading stories of this use of Sintel trailer in a demonstration of a mind reading hardware. EEG (Electroencephalography) is the process of recording brain activity. From the video,...

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Blendm3 is a Blender plugin to work with StarCraft 2′s m3 files being developed by Alexander Stante. While animation and exporting aren’t yet supported, they are already in their...

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The developers’ meeting notes this week, only one main topic was discussed, “Blender 2.5x todos and beta release” Ton Roosendaal writes: Hi all, Only one main topic was discussed:...

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Last night our baby girl Floortje Nina was born! We’re all insanely proud and happy :) Bart

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Paul Caggegi released 2 video tutorials of his character modeling using Blender 2.49b this month. The first one released on August 10th is about the boot tongue and laces, adding more details with...

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While “RenderMan” could refer to many things, it  is also a standard protocol for rendering in many renderers, for instance, 3Delight, Air, Aqsis, Pixie, PRMan and many others not listed...

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In the same week as our 60,000th comment, we reach another milestone: our 3,000th article (this one). In just a little over 5 years, this site has grown from a hobby experiment to a regular part of...

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