Omar Abo-Namous

Apparently some silly guy is trying to make fast money by selling the open source and free 3D-software package Blender. He’s using the name 3DMagix, which is a pretty dumb name. The site doesn’t look to reassuring to me, but there are lots of people (some i am ashamed to call ‘close relatives’) who would gladly fall for this kind of ‘best deal’ offers. So, be warned: If you want to check out some nice and really(!) free 3d modelling, animation, texturing and video editing software (and yet some), head over to Blender.org and download it for free without having to register or give out your credit card number.. Thanks to Blendernation for the heads-up.

Here are some screen captures of the site (perhaps the creator wants to sue me?

Yesterday i started with the rig animation for the blender animation challenge. Here is the result so far..

Mancandy with Ball from too much cookies on Vimeo.

I’m planning on having him stretch a little then try and grab the ball. Let’s see what happens then.. [via]

I’m thinking about entering the blender animation challenge. I’ve read about it some days back on blendernation and tried out the really well done rig “mancandy”. Here is my first render of the scene:

Man and a ball - blender animation challenge

And here is one of the first videos in the challenge with some nice camera perspective (by “rogper”):