I recently saw a recommendation for some free backup tools for Windows, and I thought I’d pass them along. The following can be useful in different circumstances, over the regular Windows backup: For full drive backups: DriveImage XML Backup Software For backing up individual files to another drive:SyncToy from Microsoft When a hard drive fails, … Read more
These technologies are still in development, but here are some incredible developments that can convert a picture into a 3D image: http://www.photo-to-3d.com/ http://make3d.stanford.edu/ http://code.google.com/p/libmv/
Some links to free 3D models, that are compatible (.blend file, or can be imported) with Blender: The Official Blender Model Repositoryhttp://e2-productions.com/repository/index.php Blender Architecture related 3D models:http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Models http://resources.blogscopia.com/index_en.html Cars:http://dmi.chez-alice.fr/models1b.html Sci-Fi (starwars, star trek, etc):http://www.blenderwars.com/content.php?module=downloadhttp://www.blenderwho.co.uk/ General:http://free3dmodels.fleshsoft.eu/ 3D Models of Various Formats, some of which can be imported into Blenderhttp://telias.free.fr/Models_menu.html Motion Capturehttp://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/http://feeblemind.tuxfamily.org/dotclear/index.php/2007/08/17/94-around-600-mocapad-data-sets-on-mocapdatacom
I found another tutorial that shows you how to go from a 3D object in Blender, and export it as something that you can use with a Papervision or another Flash 3D engine. It exports to a Collada file, before you import into Papervision. This one is a bit longer way than the direct to … Read more
I came accross this open source 2D annimation tool called Synfig. It’s still in beta phase, but it looks to be pretty interesting. One of the things it’s supposed to be really good at is tweening. It’s intended more for Film and TV type annimations, rather than typical net stuff. I’m not sure if it’s … Read more
Great news everyone! Search Engines are now getting the technology to crawl through Adobe Flash content. The Flash SWFs files (even old ones) are now becoming searchable by search engines. 🙂 The improved SWF search even includes the capability to load and access remote data like XML calls and loaded SWFs. This means Flex applications … Read more
I came accross some more Blender 3D tutorials, that I thought were pretty good for beginners (they show pretty well how to use the interface): http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=blenderMoyesSeries001 Also, here are some more Blender video tutorial links: http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/ http://www.blender.org/education-help/video-tutorials/ And another good place to start: http://www.blender.org/education-help/manuals-books/ http://blendernewbies.blogspot.com/ http://blenderunderground.com/ (archived) http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro http://ocw.tufts.edu/Content/28/supp…aterial/366743 http://www.vimeo.com/user463660/videos