In March, both Google and Dwango announced they would free software collections by the end of the month. These industry giants decided to make their software free to use for everyone. Dwango even went one step further and is offering their award-winning animation software as open source for anyone to develop! Nik Collection Acquired by Google in […]
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I decided to post August’s Adobe Offsetting a week early since I was able to take advantage of Blender’s special discount for the Cosmos Laundromat release on DVD. The Blender team has been working hard this month with a pre-screening of the film and pre-sale of the DVD. Perks As a perk to donating to
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Anime Studio always surprises users with fantastic new features. From their 3D approach to vector drafting and ground-breaking introduction of smart bones, Anime Studio has shown consistent strength with each new release. It gives me great pleasure to support them for this month’s Adobe Offsetting. A tool that supports its users I first started using Anime Studio
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For a little over a year, I’ve been learning how to create 3D models in Blender. One of the largest benefits of using Blender is their large and overwhelming supportive community. There are tons of online resources that I’ve used to help me understand the basic principle of modeling. Last month I discovered a great
A year ago I began my membership with Blender Cloud. In March 2014, Blender announced Project Gooseberry—a crowd source funding endeavor for a feature-length film. As one of the perks for donating, Blender created a monthly cloud membership, opening access to training content available previously only through their online store. Included with the tutorials is access to assets from animation projects,
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Yesterday I hopped out of bed with purpose. I was getting up early to test my new bike camera. In the past couple weeks, I’ve been learning to make and print in 3D using Blender and Blender Cloud. For my first project, I gave myself something easy to make so that I could focus on
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It was difficult to come up with what to support for this month. Do I find another software to support? Do I spend time looking for artist projects on Kickstarter to get behind? Or do I reinvest in software development that I’ve given to in the past? The problem with trying to figure this out
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What can I say other than that Blender is an amazing tool. As I’ve learned more and more about the software over the past 60 days, I’m impressed with how efficient the and straight-forward the experience is as a noobie has been. In the past I tried to learn 3D but I ultimately would become
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This will be a short and sweet post for this month’s Adobe Offsetting. For the second month in a row, I decided to back Project Gooseberry for Blender. Repeat performance There are many reasons why I decided to donate for a second month in a row. Over the past weeks, I’ve been spending any possible
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A couple of weeks ago I saw an advertisement for an event on Google Plus. It was for an animation workshop using open-source software presented by Ricardo Graça. The only problem is that the workshop will be held in Rio. They will be capturing the upcoming event on video but the lecture will be in Portuguese.
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