NovaTux is the first open source video game to be released by Cuba’s vibrant free software community. The work was done by students of UCI, one of the most important computer science universities in Cuba, which also launched Nova, the first GNU/Linux distribution from the country.
Read more »Cuba releases free video game that teaches Unix to kids, built with Blender and GIMP
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Free Online Book On Blender: Solid 3D Rendering/Animation Lessons
One of the great things about open source platforms and applications is that skilled authors often put free books online as guides.
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Free Software for Movie industry workshop at IFFK
The Free Software for Movie industry workshop was conducted this morning as the part of 13th International Film Festival of Kerala IIFFK) 2008. Delegates, film Makers, editors, sound engineers, graphic designers and students attended this event.
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Free Software for Movie industry workshop
The Free Software for Movie industry workshop is scheduled for 10:30 am on 18th December 2008 at Hotel Horizon, Thiruvananthapurum (India). This event is organized during the 13th International Film Festival of Kerala by free software community.
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Big Buck Bunny, We Want More!
Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation, made another animated open content film entitled Big Buck Bunny. The short movie is created using only free and open source software.
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Now Playing: Big Buck Bunny
"...Big Buck Bunny is a free short movie created by the Peach open movie project.The animated movie is freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means, according to their 'about' page: 'you can freely reuse and distribute this content, also commercially, for as long you provide a proper attribution.' Big Buck Bunny was made primarily with the awesome free Blender 3D
Read more »Blender 2.46 released
The work of the past half year - also thanks to the open movie project "Big Buck Bunny" - has resulted in a greatly improved feature set, now released as Blender 2.46, the "Bunny release"!
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Microsoft to FOSS Poster Child: Come And Join Hands with Us
Remember ThinkFree? There are many situations where Microsoft approaches or acquires projects to ensure it can successfully exclude competitors and make third-party software developers (including their end users) more Microsoft-dependent. Watch what Microsoft is up to with Bldender at the moment. Blender is a FOSS poster child.
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[Libre Graphics Meeting 2008] Please donate!
"...The Libre Graphics Meeting brings together developers and users of free software graphics applications, such as GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita, the Open Clipart Library and more: http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008 [...] To make a donation, please follow this link: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/613 ..."
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Free/Open-source 3D Graphics Software
3D computer graphics software refers to programs used to create 3D computer-generated imagery. There are typically many stages in the "pipeline" that studios use to create 3D objects for film and games, and this article only covers some of the software used. Note that most of the 3D packages have a very plugin-oriented architecture, and high-end plugins costing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars are often used by studios. Larger studios usually create enormous amounts of proprietary software to run alongside these programs. But thankfully, there are always free/open-source software alternatives that can help produce highly commendable 3D animations like it did in the short film entitled “Elephants Dream”.
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Peach an open 3D animation movie project
As a follow-up to the successful project Orange’s “Elephants Dream”, the Blender Foundation will initiate another open movie project. Again a small team of the best 3D artists and developers in the Blender community will be invited to come together to work in Amsterdam from October 2007 until April 2008 on completing a short 3D animation movie. The team members will get a great studio facility and housing in Amsterdam, all travel costs reimbursed, and a fee sufficient to cover all expenses during the period.
The creative concept of “Peach” will be completely different as for “Orange”. This time it’ll be funny and furry!
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When open-source GUIs attack: The Blender example
TDT 3D has put together a comparison of six 3D modeling tools. I am not going to get too deeply into the finer points of the products and what the TDT 3D reviewer thought of them, but many readers got quite worked up about one of the tools, Blender 3D 2.45.
Read more »Open source software for architects
When I began my career as an assistant architect 12 years ago, I used AutoCAD R12, 3D Studio, CorelDraw 6.0, and Photoshop 4.0 for architectural drawing and 3-D modeling. Today, many architects still use their later versions, but those bulky packages provide many functions an architect will never use.
Read more »Just peachy: free software, free movies
Apparently I’ve been living under a rock, because I only recently found out about the Blender project’s free and open source short movie, Elephants Dream, when I happened across Terry Hancock’s review of it last year on this web site.
Read more »Blender animations help prevent crime in Britain
The Avon and Somerset Constabulary in Great Britain uses animations created with the open source tool Blender to help citizens understand how to protect their vehicles and possessions from theft.
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