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Creating an Eyeball
Landscape
by Michael W
This week’s artwork features one landscape, from a set of three, that Michael has produced for a commercial project; Michael writes:
Due to a non disclosure agreement there’s not much I can say about the project itself, but I can say that this was an unusual brief:
I had two weeks, I had to have a [...]
Guardians – Community Help
NOTE: Forgot to mention we all use latest SVN builds, so anything above revision 26680 to 90 or so should work fine.
Hello awesome Blender Community!
Thanks for the comments on the Guardians in the previous post, I agree with most of them.
For those who mentioned the time frame and scale of the project – that is [...]

Posted on February 7th 2010 at
DurianNew Developer Q & A Session
Blender developers are hosting an on-line Q&A session TODAY (Sunday the 7th) at 15:00 CET (click here to see what time this is for you).
Campbell Barton writes:
Excuse the late post but the 7th of Feb beings us to next new developer Q&A.
How about we focus on something a bit different this time? Off hand possible [...]
Community Contributions #2
After Effects Exporter for Blender
Paolo Ciccone writes:
For years the integration of 3D in the post-processing pipeline has been dominated by commercials applications. Today there is an alternative that I think can compete with the “big guys”. I just released the After Effects Exporter for Blender.
[...]
The exporter, nicknamed AEE, is released as Open Source Software and I hope to have it [...]
Citizen Exclusive: Mechanic Part 5
Guardians
Always room to improve (with the exception of time), but at this point here are the Guardians.
–Ben.

Posted on February 4th 2010 at
Durian‘The Secret of Kells’ nominated for an Oscar!
Tomm Moore’s ‘The Secret of Kells’, which has been partly produced in Blender by the Belgian studio Digital Graphics, has been nominated for an Oscar in the category ‘Animated Feature Film’!
From the announcement:
THE SECRET OF KELLS – OSCAR NOM!!!
Hey everybody! The amazing and beautiful film THE SECRET OF KELLS has just been nominated for an [...]
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