Blender Art Magazine

The magazine was started for the blender community, having the aim of publishing a bi-monthly PDF magazine; free for download. The goal of the magazine is to provide quality learning content for the blender community, from the efforts of the community itself. BlenderArt Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 license.

At http://blenderart.org.

Suzanne!… and other test models

Suzanne is Blender's alternative to more common test models such as the Utah Teapot and the Stanford Bunny. A low-polygon model with only 500 faces, Suzanne is often used as a quick and easy way to test material, animation, rigs, texture, and lighting setups, and is also frequently used in joke images. Suzanne is still included in Blender. The largest Blender contest gives out an award called the Suzanne Awards.

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_(3D_model)#Suzanne.
More on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Awards.

* Utah Teapot—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
* Stanford Bunny—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Bunny
* Stanford Dragon—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Dragon
* List of common test models—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_3D_test_models

Blender open movies

http://www.elephantsdream.org/

http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/

http://www.sintel.org

http://mango.blender.org

Students' blogs [ ! ]

All students must create a blog for publishing their projects developed within the scope of this class, and must communicate it's address to me by email until the deadline of the exercise 1. The following information is required:

• student number
• first and last name
• blog URL

All students may also share their blog's address with the rest of the class by writing it down in a comment to this post—which is listed at the 'links' section (to the right).

Blender 2.71

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animating, match moving, camera tracking, rendering, video editing and compositing. It also features a built-in game engine.

http://www.blender.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)