Friday, January 8, 2010

BlenderArt Magazine #25: Winter Wonderland

Issue Description: There is something mesmerizing about watching snow gently fall. The soft fluffy look as it piles up here and there. Then there are the lovely shades of blue that seem to paint winter landscapes in enchanting hues of winter chill. So while the weather outside is frightful, the articles and fun to be had inside are delightful. Check out our Winter Wonderland issue filled with heartwarming winter and holiday fun.

Issue Content:

  • Articles/Tutorials on a Christmas Ball
  • Tutorial on Making Santa
  • Making of a Cyclone
  • Making of a Winter Scene
  • Johnny Blender Training DVD
  • An interview with Jonathan Williamson
  • Book review of Incredible Machines
  • & a lot more…

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BlenderArt Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine released freely as a PDF document from blenderart.org. It is a community based effort and is released under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 license.

Parkour Paper Animation

According to Wikipedia:

Parkour (sometimes also abbreviated to PK) or l’art du déplacement (English: the art of moving) is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one’s path by adapting one’s movements to the environment. It’s a non-competitive, physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible, as if moving in an emergency situation. Skills such as jumping and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves are employed. The object of parkour is to get from one place to another using only the human body and the objects in the environment. The obstacles can be anything in one’s environment, but parkour is often seen practiced in urban areas because of the many suitable public structures available such as buildings and rails.

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