Media Production
For doing complex development with Flash, it can help to have a more powerful Actionscript editor than the built in Flash CS3 editor. I’ve been testing Flex Builder and FlashDevelop, both of which can export both Flash or Flex (Flex is Flash with a library of components built for making web applications). Both seem to … Read more
This is a nifty little application which is written in the Processing language, which allows you to draw stick figures and export them to Blender for animation. http://screamyguy.net/sketchBoard/index.htm If you haven’t heard of Processing, it’s an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. You can check … Read more
There is an interesting talk on Papervision at the Blender conference: http://river-valley.tv/conferences/blender_conference_2008/
Finally there is a way to get 3D into Flash, from Blender (or another program such as 3DsMax), with Animation! It’s a tool called Cast3D. Check out this: http://www.rustpunk.co.za/blog/?p=10 You can download the Papervision 3D component for Flash CS3 from here:http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/downloads/list
I thought this was a very cool demonstration of the fluid capabilities of Blender. It shows a "magician" character, who "magically" conjures the water into different shapes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WruTNnF6Ztg You can find more info here: http://www10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~sinithue/ani_mfc/ and here: Magic Fluid Control
Here are some more Blender and Flash tutorials that you can get for free: http://www.cartoonsmart.com/demo_index.html They’re actually demos for the full tutorial (you have to pay for the full version). If you like the demo versions, then you might want to pay for the full version. I’d definately recomend checking them out. One thing I … Read more
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