The Finnish architects K2S recently won a big architecture competition for the design of a new hospital. The main visualisations were done in Blender. Abel Groenewolt tells about the adoption of Blender in his office. Abel wrote: The architects office where I work (K2S Architects, Helsinki) has just won a big architecture competition for the design of [...]

Woah! Three years have already passed since I began a small experiment in blogging :). Time for a birthday present! Maybe you remember our previous fundraiser where we donated 1 classroom, 4000 hot meals, 2 goats, 1 alpaca and 3 animal care kits to a Third World country? That was great, but when tax time came [...]

The Linux Foundation is hosting a contest to create an "I'm Linux" commercial. Grand prize: a trip to Tokyo! Deadline is March 15, 2009. From the announcement: If you've been alive and aware of mass media over the last twelve months, you've probably seen television commercials from Apple and Microsoft touting their operating system. From Apple's ubiquitous [...]

From the entire team: the best wishes for 2009! What are your hopes for Blender this year? Leonarda Sala (see also his 'Mikrobitus') sent in a nice New Years e-card. Enjoy! Leonardo wrote: Hi, I've just finished a short greetings e-card to promote my services, as usual totally made in Blender 2.48. It features very simple but funny [...]

Here's a *really* nice form of interactive 3D advertising, and it looks like they did the 3D design in Blender. What appears to be little more than a black and white advertisement in three recent German automotive magazines becomes a 3D holographic model of the Mini Cabrio through a webcam and the Mini website. The ad works [...]

As much as this sounds like another open source project, it's not.  Rather, The Emily Project is a very impressive life-like human representation by Image Metrics. With no further ado, meet Emily: Thanks to Michael Cuffe for the article suggestion!

Green Button has just announced their rendering services for Blender. Using the python script that they provide, you will have a rendering consul  inside Blender which you use to upload your file to their servers. They currently have access to over 2000 processors in New Zealand and an additional 1000+ in Australia and they are [...]

Oscar Alvarado (of Gothique Studios) has released a teaser trailer of his new animated short, "Le Monsieur, Le Vampire et Renee Marcelle", animated by Oscar Alvarado and Martha Vaquera.  The video looks quite promising! Oscar writes: Info about my new animated short! I hope you like it ;) Atte Oscar Alvarado The short will premiere at the Blender Conference 2009. Make sure [...]

Blender Art Magazine (BAM) are adjusting their release schedule. Sandra Gilbert wrote: As Blender art magazine enters its 4th year of publication, (yes it really has been that long), the time has come to adjust our release schedule. While the staff as well as the contributing artists and authors make every attempt to hit our release schedule, [...]

The planetarium of the Weber State University uses Blender to create content for their full-dome digital projector. Rendering for this screen requires a Fisheye camera, for which they have created and released a camera rig. Ron Proctor wrote: The Ott Planetarium is pleased to announce revision 9a of our Blender Fisheye Camera Rig. Previous revisions have been [...]