LONG awaited update

I haven't actually posted on this blog since my computing class at school ended last semester (so around SIX MONTHS). I didn't even realize until a friend of mine pointed it out. So... here I go:

Sintel

PROJECT DURIAN finally has a name!!!

If you even have Blender downloaded, I suggest you go there and download the files they recently put up.

If you DON'T have Blender (how couldn't you!?), GO THERE ANYWAY!
It rocks!

I absolutely CANNOT wait until it's finished.


I can't say too much more about it, but if you go to their blog, they can tell you EVERYTHING.

Tenna' lye omentuva

REVIEW (& tutorial)

Well, I tried the new release of Blender (2.48) today (and very briefly, I must say, it kept crashing due to me not having a solid OS (Ubuntu sucks sometimes), and I was forced to use my "virtual box" virtual machine), and I thought it was definitely an improvement on 2.45, but I didn't get to try everything that I wanted. One thing I did try, however, was the new softbody technique where you can have softbodies in game mode (which means, when I get it, awesomeness will ensue). Anyway, I didn't have much to say.

One thing that I just remembered, you should all check out the new open movie project Durian. It should be awesome (and better than Big Buck Bunny, and Elephants dream (which I didn't get, by the way. If anyone could explain it to me, that would be great)).

And, a new Tutorial is up!

Tutorials

Now I know that I said a while back that I would post some tutorials here, but that made me start to think...
Do I really want to go back and forth between posts about Blender news and the tutorials?
Not at all. So, I made a new blog and put a link to it at the top of this page. This is going to be my Blender news page, and the other will be for tutorials.

Particles

Just a fast demostration of the Blender particle system.

Without particles

With particles

Another demo.

Del.icio.us

So if any of you people don't know what Del.icio.us is,

Delicious is a social bookmarking site that lets you tag your bookmarks so that you can find other websites with related content. You can also find other users with similar interests to you, who can also refer you to sites that they like.

Delicious may be useful for school (to help you to find sites with information that you need (for projects)), your club (to find related clubs to exchange info or ideas with), sports team (to find competition), or other group.

Survey

Hey people! I added a survey that I would like you to answer for me. The results will help me to know weather to post more news about Blender, or more tutorials for all you new users. The more veteran users I have, the less tutorials I will feel like I need to post.

Guns

This is a blog about sport shooting in Australia, and its got some nice info about gun laws, events and other good stuff so, check it out!

New Release

Blender 2.48a was released in October last year. They finally added soft body dynamics to the bullet physics library (for those of you who don't use Blender, thats pretty big. or maybe its just me who thinks so.) and a whole bunch of other cool stuff so, check it out! (if you haven't already.)

Intro

Hey! In this blog i will be talking about some of the features of Blender 3D, and sometimes give some helpful information on certain aspects of it (due to its insane learning curve). I have been using Blender for about two and a half years now, and I'm still learning new things about it all the time. So i hope this can be helpful to some people, and maybe even get some more people into it.