An enjoyable little time-waster: test your Blender 2.5 knowledge with a Blender quizz. Right now there are four quizzes to take, and more will appear in the future. Demohero writes: Hi everybody. I...

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Many readers sent leading stories of this use of Sintel trailer in a demonstration of a mind reading hardware. EEG (Electroencephalography) is the process of recording brain activity. From the video,...

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Yes! How’s that for you, you ’1st post!’ shouting kiddies! Jamez here knows how to do it properly – he just posted the 60,000th comment on BlenderNation. Well done Jamez! As a...

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Michael wrote: “I saw a screenshot of Big Buck Bunny at the new Disney Research Institute in Zurich! The sighting is from Euronews”.

A group of Blender artists are working hard to prepare a stunning animated short for the Richmond 48 Hour Film Festival.  The timer has already started and the team is super-excited as the project is gaining momentum! Sam Brubaker writes: Jason van Gumster has assembled a team of Blender artists to to compete in the Richmond 48 [...]

Trub animated cartoon from Dimetrii on Vimeo.

Shaman Rig from Dimetrii on Vimeo. I did rigging for the character “Shaman”. In Blender 2.5. Added new elements to control the fingers, face and spine. Rigging for fingers can now be done very quickly. Controls for the face (eyebrows, Jaw, lips), ease of use. Do not make a lot of [...]

All of you who entered made it really difficult for us judges this year! Well done and keep it up! Of 49 total entries we settled on five. Before you vote PLEASE look at the FULL RESOLUTION DETAILS of each entry and the voting guidelines! It’s very important! Please be careful to not vote out [...]

The HTML5 specification offers some nifty new possibilities for video manipulation. This is probably amazingly boring for most people here, but here’s a cool example: Blow up Big Buck Bunny in your browser! (You’ll need a modern browser to be able to see this).

Several people have reported this: Big Buck Bunny made an appearance in BBC’s ‘Click’, as part of a demonstration of full-color e-paper.

Use BBB’s Butterfly and an on-line Blender service to create an image for Valentine’s day. It doesn’t render an animation or send e-cards, but it’s still a lot of fun to play around with. Paul Fitzpatrick wrote: You can use Blender online to put your beloved’s picture on the wings of a butterfly for Valentine’s day. If you [...]

“Big Buck Bunny (awesome CC movie!) sighting in a claw vending maching in a local shopping centre.” Tweeted by @thisismywww. Follow us on @BlenderNation.

Blending Life 1 showed us that Blender is on a solid path and competing very well with the broader CG world when it comes to creating realistic looking 3d human models.  This time we’re going to up the stakes a notch and prove our worth even more.  Our community has the talent, [...]

So little time, so many sightings!

Animation Gym is an on-line animation school from Uruguay. They also teach Blender. Arstechnica has mentioned about Blender 2.5 in a new series on “An introduction to 3D on the Mac”. See here and here. Elephants Dream in a demo video of Snapcut – about 15s into the video. Big Buck Bunny in [...]

Hi I've spent the past few months working with RPN interactive on an iPhone game, using Blender heavily in our pipeline for 3D assets and animations. All the 3D assets for the game and many animations for 2D elements were done with Blender, and other open source software (GIMP and Inkscape) were used for the [...]

Here's a nice little room escape game: 'Escape from Blender Art Gallery'. And a walk-through, just in case :)

Here's a nice and embarrassing story: German hacker Ray, who is well known for opening handcuffs, has photographed the official handcuff key of the Dutch police, modelled it in Blender and printed it on a Reprap 3D printer. And guess what? It works! From Blackbag.nl: He used a 3D printer to print handcuff keys. And not just [...]

Blender Sightings Here we go again! :) Keep 'em coming! But be sure to check our previous Sightings for duplicates. Nathan Han wrote: A screen capture of a scene in Elephant's Dream takes a prominent place as the only example of the bloom effect used being used in a virtual environment in the Wikipedia article on the bloom [...]

Yunow's sister, Maru, made him an awesome birthday cake for his 32nd birthday. Read on to see it!

Pretty cool huh? The Suzanne figure was added by Edu. Link

'Envy my cake …' forum post (translated by Google)

More Blender sightings and a vanity BlenderNation sighting!

Big Buck Bunny featured prominently at the SIGGRAPH Encore DVD-ROM Page. Chris Ward wrote: Big Buck Bunny spotting! :) See video, around 24-26 seconds. zsouthboy wrote: Go to Maxwellrender.com. Click gallery. Click images. Click 1.7 images. Click 08. Surprise! It's Suzanne! And maxwell render doesn't have a blender exporter :( Henrique Perigo wrote: I just downloaded [...]

Despite just having become a father last week, JesterKing has already picked up coding again and has hacked together a real-time (well, updated every 5 minutes) graph of the Durian sales. The height of the graph represents 2000. Each dark gray horizontal line represents 500, where the lighter gray are 250. More info on his [...]