PUBLIC MARKS from -Nicolas- with tags animation & blender

Turn a simple walk cycle into a stroll with style! Improve your character animation in 3D World’s Blender masterclass, which makes use of genuine rigs from the movie Elephants Dream

All the video tutorials use the XviD codec at 1024×768 resolution.

Animating one car on a straight road is easy, but if you want to animate one or several cars following a curve, with speed variations, and other refinements, you will need a method allowing automatic steering and proportionnal speed for the wheels rotation. This tutorial will show up how to make automated animations for cars.

I intend to make a tutorial here about some tricks which can be done after the usual process of rigging a mesh to an armature. I assume you have experience with the process of skinning and assigning and editing deform weights, maybe you already have a full model, but are unhappy with some unwanted artifacts. This tutorial will not cover inverse kinematics, but the principles shown here are not incompatible or interfere with IK.

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.

Making realistic water in blender

This tutorial is the result of about a month of intense work as part of the Blender Summer of Documentation. I created it with the hope of introducing many new users to Blender, as well as providing a resource for experienced Blender users.

Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license. The short film was created by the Orange Open Movie Project studio in Amsterdam during 2005/2006, bringing together a diverse team of artists and developers from all over the world.