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This video titled "Journey to the Center of a Tube" is about vacuum tubes that are used in guitar amps. It was created for The Tube Depot and the demonstration animation in this video was done by Jay Phillips using Blender. For you aspiring Blues guitarist, the 6L6 tube gives a nice warm tone and [...]

Sterling Roth was recently hired by Colt to create demonstration video for Colt show booth this past January. " All of the models were provided by colt in Pro Engineer format. I animated and textured the weapons and added in other effects. They were rendered in Blender internal with AAO. Total time spent animating [...]

Yep! You?re reading right! During May I?ll be at the Blender Institute Amsterdam, working on what?s going to be the 4th Training DVD by the Blender Foundation, and the very first one made in native Spanish!, of course with full subtitles/navigation ... [More] in english as well.The main topic for the DVD will be?.. venomgfx! I?ve been always in love with cartoon, since I started with 3D I?ve been creating characters and scenes just for fun, and specially to learn. But that was 7 years ago.. so nowadays, with all this little ?Zoo? I have, I would like to take advantage of it and re-make some of my most beloved characters, using the huge army of new tools that now Blender has.Anyways, why would I make a whole new character for the DVD, when I already have quite a few characters gathering dust on my HD, that could use a re-make to be up-to-date with new Blender stuff, let?s release them! freedom! The DVD will cover topics such as:Modeling.Shading - Materials, Textures Maps, Nodes (both Material and Texture Nodes).Something I?ve been asked for: ?Good Cartoony eyes!?.Texture baking.Sculpt Mode.Particles (hair, grass, etc).Lighting. (Ambient Occlusion, Lamps, etc..)Compositing!, Nodes, RenderLayers, Passes. Effects.well..all that you see in my works..For example, all the wrinkles on Zanno could be sculpted, and I bet that Antonio?s and Fraka?s hair would look LOT better with the new particles system. This DVD, like any other Training DVD from the Blender Foundation, will be released as Open Content, under the Creative Commons (Attribution) license, which basically means you can do whatever you want with the files, as long as you give proper credit to the original author.So, not only the documentation about how the characters and scenes were made is going to be free (as in freedom), but also the characters and scenes will be free as well! Worth to say that all the sales from this and other DVDs, go directly to the Blender Foundation, to support projects like this, and Open Movies, Open Games, and so on, as well as supporting Blender?s constant development itself.Will update soon with more info!, as soon as I have a name for it and when the pre-sale begins! Cheeeers!PS: by the way.. about the DVD?s name.. still can?t decide, any idea? drop a comment! [Less]

Easter short for our new company Expresso expresso.com.plFrom concept to final movie: 3 days :)Credits:concept: Piotrek Kosmaladirection: Piotrek Kosmala, Micha? Krupa, Maciek Szczyg?owskianimation: Micha? Krupa, Maciek Szczyg?owskimodelling: Maciek ... [More] Szczyg?owski, Micha? Krupacompositing,lighting&shaders: Piotrek Kosmalatextures: Piotrek Kosmala, Maciek Szczyg?owskiCast: postpunk [Less]

Social Networking or Notworking? No idea, let's find out! We're on Twitter now.

Onnittelut oberstleutnantille skabavoitosta! Samalta suunnalta myuli uusi skaba-aihe, joka on siis: ?A cosmonaut riding a possessed hoverboard?. Kaikki mukaan seikkailuun, sill?yt on yli viikko aikaa puuhata kyseiseen skabaan upea teos.Deadline: ... [More] Sunnuntai 19.4.2009 klo 2400.Linkki skabathreadiin-Congratulations go to oberstleutnant for winning compo #19! Oberstleutnant got to dictate the next topic, which is: ?A cosmonaut riding a possessed hoverboard?.Deadline: Sunday 19.4.2009 @ 2400hrs.Link to the compothread [Less]

From Tony Mullen:Hi Everybody,I wanted to let people know that the next Japanese Blender Party is coming up in Tokyo this month! If you're planning to be in Japan on the 25th of April, be sure not to miss it!As always, there will be a showing of Blender-made videos (including some new stuff), mini-tutorials, food, [...]

Yeah, we once tried to have our own TV channel here at BlenderNation and failed. Still, it was nice while it lasted. Ian Elsner has now launched the Blender show - let's hope he'll keep it up! Oh and Ian, if you're reading this - check out this post! ;-)Ian Elsner wrote:Many people have [...]

Jonathan Williamson (Mr. Bomb) will be teaching a live class on Edgeloop Methodology at Blenducation this coming Saturday.See what Jonathan has to say about this upcoming class:Edgeloops are one of those things in modeling that thoroughly confound ... [More] many new modelers and even some more experienced artists. Essential to animation, edgeloops also help keep a mesh [...] [Less]