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Waiting for it so long. Now it’s finally  finished. Can’t wait to get my DVD

Our short animation film now has been published online for everyone to watch and spread! It’s been an exciting moment for our team, and for everyone who as eagerly awaited this moment. We hope you enjoy it!

Visit the download page for Youtube link, file mirrors and torrents.

Next on our todo is wrapping up the 4-dvd box release, NTSC/PAL discs with extras and documentary, and 2 DVD-ROMs with tutorials, and all the data to reproduce the fim entirely.

-Ton-

Hi,

in the past days I came across a very nice tutorial from Jonathan Williamson, “Creating a Microscopic Virus Effect” (Blender Cookie):

In this Blender 2.5 video tutorial we take a look at how to create a microscopic virus effect in a few short steps. The tutorials covers modeling, materials, lighting, and some simple compositing.

You can create this nice image in only around 40 minutes.  Here Is my version as I followed the tutorial (could need some work, but works as a wallpaper):

(click on image  for larger version)

maces

Hi,

After trying  to render some fluid in blender, I think I need more RAM:

Linux vs Blender

The bottom shows the System a few seconds before Blender got killed. The RAM and Swap where both at 99% (hard to take the screenshot accurate enough with a laggy system ).

Info:

After baking some fluid simulation, I wanted to render the fluid with smooth shading and Subdivision Surface of two. The baked fluid had a resolution of 256.  My current System is a Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2,4Ghz with 4Gb of RAM and 2Gb of Swap. Enough for the mostly testing stuff I’m doing, until now .

Baking took a long time , 9 hours for >30 frames. That’s because Blenders volume/mesh based fluid simulation runs at only one core.

I used a pretty basic setup, see screenshot below:

Blender Fluids Screenshot

So let’s continue the funny stuff

maces

Hi,

there are some very interesting changes in Blender, related to Mesh Painting. Miika Hämäläinen aka MiikaH has written code for Mesh Painting. Just have a look at his videos:

wet maps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgP73qjDmJY

changing the colour:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM7NmN4e0k0

different colours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czYugUWVbEQ

wet mirror effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjl1I3y7uec

displacement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG0KyT9AOeI

He also has written a basic tutorial, you can find it here. If you want to test it, have a look here. He provides a patch and special builds on GraphicAll.

maces

Hi

I’m now using twitter, to publish interesting links I find in the Internet, you can follow me at http://twitter.com/macesnet

For that I’m using Twitterbar, a very useful Firefox addon in this case, simply click on the twitter icon in the adressbar and it tweets the current URL.

maces

Hi

Vergangenes Wochenende war ich in Sankt Augustin, auf der Froscon, insgesamt ein super Wochenende. Hier mal ein paar Highlights:

Lasse nie ein frisch installiertes an einem Stand einer anderen Distribution stehen, ansonsten wirst du nach dem Kaffee holen nach einem neuen Root Passwort gefragt

Man nehme einen Distributionsnamen und eine handvoll Ambassadors, und schon hat man eine wunderbare neue Distribution: Arschlinux

Der Social Event war auf jeden Fall super, wenn man sich einmal durch die Schlange gestanden hat, lies es sich sehr entspannt im Innenhof bei ein wenig Musik ganz gut aushalten. Besonders amüsant ist es wenn dann der obige Fall eintritt, und man nach auf der Suche nach Internet aus der Dose ist, um zu erkennen wie toll pacman ist, Stichwort IloveCandy.

Auch für LXDE haben wir uns wieder eingesetzt, so wurden Mario, Christoph und ich z.B. Interviewet, konnten den weiblichen Teil unseres Teams weiter aufstocken und haben am Fedora Stand LXDE spezifische Fragen beantwortet.

In dem Sinne danke ich allen die auf der Froscon waren , insbesondere den Fedora Ambassadoren, für ein Super Wochenende .

maces

BTW: Das sind zum Teil Insider, aber sie sind zu gut um sie nicht zu erwähnen.

Hi

I have made a new video on LXPanel. You can find it on Youtube, and on LXDEs blog:

maces

Hi

LXDE – LXDE core member Chris Wickert for Fedora Engeneering Steering Committee. If you like Fedora to be lightweight, please vote for him.

maces

Hi

blog.lxde.org:

LXDE was started already in 2005 in Taiwan and has spread all over the world. During the last year the project made big advances. New components have been added and older ones were updated. We have formed a viable translation project with people translating components from Peru to Egypt to Japan to Germany and all around the globe. LXDE is now included in many Linux distros, was ported to Google Android, has been shown to work on BSD, and was established as a Desktop Project for OpenSolaris.

So please vote for LXDE.

maces

Hi

I have added one of my older projekts to the project list. It’s called FastMountApp. FastMountApp is an application for minimalists. Combine it with a shortcut and you can easily mount and unmount your USB devices and cdrom’s/dvd’s with only one click. Here some screenshots:

Note: This is a very small tool with only a basic functionalities.

maces