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LEARN 3D Modeling in 30minutes! Excellent wiki primer for any program

inspiremiss4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:33:42 +0000

If you want to learn 3D and don’t know what you’re doing, spend 30min. reading this wiki primer and you will have a great grasp on how modeling in 3d works. Universal tutorial that will help you out in almost any 3D application (blender/maya/lightwave etc..).

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Boeing 747 Makes Mincemeat Out of a Couple of Cars

inspiremiss4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:33:29 +0000

Next time you decide to take a little joyride behind a Boeing 747 with its engines at full throttle cranking out 58,000 lb. of thrust each, think of this video from the Brit car series Top Gear. Forget how small electronics fare in a blender. We want to see how large machinery stands up to a 747!

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Elephants Dream, the “Open” 3D Animated Movie Released On-line

inspiremiss4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:32:57 +0000

Elephants Dream is the world
?s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.

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Blender 2.42 Released

inspiremiss4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:32:41 +0000

Mainly thanks to the realization of the Elephants Dream open movie, the open source 3D application Blender 2.42 has been released. It’s overflowing with new features aimed for CG movie production such as a rewritten render pipeline, node based compositing, motion blur and materials, upgraded video editor, and much more.

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The 50 Worst Artists in Music History

inspiremiss4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:32:29 +0000

Extended drum solos. Prog-rock concept albums. Kenny G. We endured all these ? and much worse! ? to bring you Blender?s list of the 50 most talentless music acts of all time. Just please don?t ask us to do it again. Ever?

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“Elephants Dream” film is an open source success story

inspiremiss4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:32:17 +0000

DVD sales seem to have generated enough funds to pay the bills, and the Blender Foundation is already talking about other projects.

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Forget Maya, 3D Studio Max and Light wave! Its all about Blender 3D.

inspiremiss4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:31:55 +0000

Blender 3D is a popular alternative to those other expensive 3D creation tools. Its open source, works on all platforms (win,lin,mac) and its free of coarse. If your interested in making your own 3D models, animations and game development – this 18MB File is something you gotta check out! Plus there’s plenty of documentation to teach you! Look.

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Blender 2.44 released with subsurface scattering effects

inspiremiss4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:31:23 +0000

A new version of Blender has been released with improved sculpt tools and gorgeous subsurface scattering rendering plus a number of other great updates.

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Blender Animation Festival 2005 (Open Source 3d modeling)

inspiremiss4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:30:49 +0000

These are the nominations and winners of the third annual Suzanne awards, this year entirely devoted to animations created in Blender. I like the one with snoopy.

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Blender 2.40 Released!

inspiremiss4 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:30:35 +0000

Anyway, after about 7 months of development, Blender 3D is out. It’s a free, open source, cross-platform 3d suite. Lots of neat new features (see the page for details).

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