Blender Demo Reel Released

James Cho writes "The Blender demo reel has been released, showcasing some of the best artwork made with what has become the most powerful open source 3d content creation software. It will be later shown at SIGGRAPH 2004, the premier international computer graphics exhibiton and conference."

Comments

Interface

[Television Set]

Blender is one tough program to master. I've meddled with it a bit, but I found the interface cumbersome.

Re:Interface

[Deusy]

Blender is one tough program to master. I've meddled with it a bit, but I found the interface cumbersome.

Ergo, a large focus of the development since becoming open source has been to make the UI more intuitive and consistent.

The Blender UI is no longer that difficult, just different to 3DS or your other favourite 3D editor. I'd be surprised if your comment applies to the most recent version unless by "a bit" you mean 5 minutes.

If you go through the the blender3d.org tutorials then get back on the "cumbersome" UI.

Re:Interface

[FunkyChild]

But I think the main Blender developers are too attached to the whole RMB for cursor positioning/LMB for selection thing to ever change that.

Blender 2.34, due to be released in the next week or so, contains a user preference to choose between LMB or RMB for selection.

--> http://mke3.net/blender/interface/interaction/mous esel_pref.png

Re:Interface

[Mr.Zong]

For 3d modeling (not animating mind you), might i recommend http://www.wings3d.com/. Wings 3d has pretty much the best GUI i've ever had the pleasure of using. It's learning curve is really only about a half hour, and you can do some amazing modeling with it. Also open source.

Re:mirror

[caino59]

siggraph_movie.avi

someone want to set it up as a torrent?

direct link and mirror

[yruf]

use the direct link which is mentioned on the blender.org page.

if this doesn't work, try my very own mirror (which hopefully doesn't die within the next seconds...)

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