So with the new year started it might be worth looking into some patterns different from the ones we are usually dealing with. So how about a bit of 3D graphics, shaders and modelling?! Get your gear: Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, […]
There you are – you’ve spent hundreds of hours, maybe together with friends, in a game called Minecraft. You mined and you crafted. And you built yourself your own world. Out of blocks. “Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the […]
As tools get better artists really polish out what technology enables them to do with computers nowadays. This eye above made me awww. It’s from a user “ChrisJones” in the Blender Forum who posted his progress on modelling a human head in upmost detail. Go there and be awwd as well. And while you’re there […]
After the last Open Movie Project “Bug Buck Bunny” – Sintel is the next short movie available for free download. Get it here. “Sintel” is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender. With initial funding provided by […]
Steffi and I made our own version of earth some years ago using 3D Studio and NASA Images – we even made an animation. But this guy does a way better job – creating a photorealistic earth: “For some time now, I’ve been studying how to build Earth in Blender. I’ve read quite a few […]
It’s made entirely with free software and released under the creative commons license: Big Buck Bunny is the name of the brand new short movie made with blender, inkscape, gimp and more. “The Amsterdam based ‘Blender Institute’ announced today the premiere of the short 3D animation movie ‘Big Buck Bunny’. After a production period of […]