Vector-Blurred Fluid Simulation and Other Goodies
2006-07-16
[Note: some of the Blender links are very busy today]
Blender 2.4.2 is out. What's that? Blender is an open-source 3D modeling, animation, and rendering package. It's multi-platform and it's free. And slowly but surely it's changing the 3D animation world by lowering the cost of entry and raising the payoff.
The learning curve is pretty steep because it doesn't do things the way you think it should. Figure on a couple of weeks of frustration as your wrestle through. But once you know it, it's very powerful, and being continually improved.
There is even an open movie made entirely with Blender, including the compositing and editing, Elephant's Dream. By open I don't just mean that the movie can be duplicated, but everything used to make the movie is open too: the models, scenes, animation, sound track, everything is licensed under a Creative Commons license so that only proper credit is needed for reuse. You can remix this movie.
See the milk flow on this 250k H.264 Quicktime.
Blender 2.4.2 is out. What's that? Blender is an open-source 3D modeling, animation, and rendering package. It's multi-platform and it's free. And slowly but surely it's changing the 3D animation world by lowering the cost of entry and raising the payoff.
The learning curve is pretty steep because it doesn't do things the way you think it should. Figure on a couple of weeks of frustration as your wrestle through. But once you know it, it's very powerful, and being continually improved.
There is even an open movie made entirely with Blender, including the compositing and editing, Elephant's Dream. By open I don't just mean that the movie can be duplicated, but everything used to make the movie is open too: the models, scenes, animation, sound track, everything is licensed under a Creative Commons license so that only proper credit is needed for reuse. You can remix this movie.
See the milk flow on this 250k H.264 Quicktime.
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