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'Do it all in Blender!' with Jason Van Gumster - Subsurface Talks podcast #10

dj — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:00:53 +0000

Subsurface Talks podcast's 10th guest is the legendary Jason van Gumster, author of Blender for Dummies and countless other Blender-related activities. As he describes himself - a member of the 'Blender old farts club'. Neither age nor impressive experience takes away any of Jason's contagious energy and enthusiasm. Whether it's writing crazy science fiction prose, [...]

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Blenderheads Episode 7: Project Gold Showcase

Bart — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:40:54 +0000

Enjoy the seventh episode of Blenderheads, a series about the people behind the Blender project. In this episode, we follow the process around Blender's showcase named Project Gold, by the Blender Studio. The editor and director –documentary maker Maaike Kleverlaan– works embedded in the Blender headquarters to cover the activities and conduct interviews.

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'Animating on Foo's' with Emlyn Davies - Subsurface Talks podcast #9

dj — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 13:53:22 +0000

Subsurface Talks Podcast presents an episode with Emlyn Davies a Welsh animator and founder of Bomper Studio in Caerphilly, Wales. Emlyn and his team have done some incredible work including two videos for the Foo Fighters. In the episode, DJ and Emlyn discuss the history of founding Bomper Studio, the ups and downs of the [...]

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Light Painter: How the Add-on Came to Be

Bart — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:13:00 +0000

Spencer Magnusson's popular Light Painter add-on is really quite amazing: it lets you interactively add lights and shadows to your scenes. Draw where you want the light to affect, and Light Painter adds and places the light for you. Given its popularity, Spencer decided to share a little history of the add-on, as well as [...]

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''VFX in Blender DECODED' with Rob Dickinson - Subsurface Talks podcast #8

dj — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:35:40 +0000

Subsurface Talks presents another Subsurface Talks Podcast episode with a Blender YouTube star: Rob Dickinson from DecodedVFX! Rob is mostly known for his amazing YouTube channel - DecodedVFX where he shares detailed breakdowns of his ambitious 3d projects, entire movie shot remakes, and other Blender-related content. However, this is not the only thing Rob does [...]

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Subsurface Talks podcast #7 with Midge Sinnaeve

dj — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 05:36:51 +0000

Subsurface Talks (the Blender-friendly podcast) is still alive in 2024. Their 7th episode's guest is Midge Sinnaeve - a visual artist from Antwerp in Belgium. Midge is a creative experimentator known well for his abstract computer-generated images. He creates music videos, motion graphics, VJ loops, and all kinds of visual creations with a special inclination [...]

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Top 30 Blender Committers 2023

Bart — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 08:35:20 +0000

Thomas Dinges has compiled a list of the 30 most active committers to the Blender code base. While the year runs on its last legs, it’s time to celebrate another fantastic Blender year – made possible by the community of contributors at blender.org. Below is the list of top committers to the Blender project in [...]

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Blender Guru: The Story Behind Blender's Donut Tutorial

Bart — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 16:55:47 +0000

Bad Decisions Studio talks to Andrew Price for almost TWO HOURS about his history with Blender. Also, they eat some donuts 😂. (Oh and I don't think I did the gingerbread man, but I appreciated getting my name mentioned!) Andrew Price, AKA Blender Guru, is a famous YouTuber who is particularly known for his Donut [...]

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'Free haven for everyone' with Greg Zaal - Subsurface Talks podcast #6

dj — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:45:26 +0000

dj writes: Hi there Blender folks ! After a short break due to the Blender Conference 'Subsurface Talks' podcast is back with another episode - this time featuring a Blender legend Greg Zaal - founder of Polyhaven (a site for CC0 licenced 3d assets, textures and HDRIs), Greg is a Blender 3d artist from South [...]

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Blenderheads Episode 4: Ton and Fiona

Bart — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:55:35 +0000

Blenderheads is a documentary by Maaike Kleverlaan, who works embedded in the Blender headquarters to cover the activities and conduct interviews. In this Episode we see Fiona Cohen's struggle with some internal communications and opportunities (spoiler: she passes with flying colours), and Ton talks very openly about his struggle with cancer and how it helped [...]

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