Have you ever manage to simulate human skin, only with Blender materials? An artist from the Blenderartists forums, called Pixelvore, has made some incredible experiments with SSS and Nodes to...

For those who have been hoping for a conference here in the USA, I am excited to announce that the Kingsport Art Guild will be hosting a 2nd day Blender Conference here in scenic Kingsport, Tennessee...

With Bart on his much needed sabbatical, I will be stepping in to help keep BlenderNation running. However, I do not have the time to write articles everyday and would like your assistance. It was...

Some people are curious how everything works, so I’d like to explain how we combining every piece together and putting life into it. What is the biggest obstacle in the typical development process ? Well - let’s divide that process to 3 stages: planning, implementing, watching results. 1) Planning: It’s a very cool stage, you can sit [...]

Blender is proudly independent and designed to run cross platform with features equally supported...

After reconsidering the level design we settled on the more practical and beneficial approach to split up that massive terrain into a set of 5 ‘islands’, each of them themed, and, perhaps one for the community. Here are some basic level shots of the first island in blender. We’ll have some in-game screenshots posted soon. [...]

The dvd gold masters were sent in time to the printer, with as aim the may 15 release. Of course the day after we sent the discs some errors were detected…  like stereo sound in the ntsc movie, where 5.1 was more appropriate! New gold masters were sent, but it means that the printer needs [...]

What can you do to make Happy Blender Institute much more happier ? You would order a cake for us ! An Apricot cake. Today one person from Blender’s community surprised us with apricot and rise cakes ! Thanks a lot ! Really appreciate What community can do for us except coffee machine [...]

We’re doing the last bits on the dvd set… encoding and authoring a video DVD and collecting and testing all files for the DVD-ROM is just a bit too much work to be really fun… especially for people suffering post-BBB fatigue! :) Even after about 6-8 manweeks of work on this DVD we could easily [...]

Currently we're testing the final builds for 2.46. Some bugfixing is in progress but we're close...

The day after the BBB premiere Ton was a member of a panel at a conference called ‘Economies of the Commons’, where topics as ‘financing open source and open content projects’ were discussed. Before the panel started Ton gave a presentation during which he also showed material from BBB. During the panel discussion there was [...]

Today the 2nd Blender open movie project premieres in Amsterdam.