Last month we completed a 4-second animation of a wizard casting a spell for the header of a new gaming website to be launched called The Gamers Universe (click if you want to cheat and see the final product first). Though I had a very limited timetable with which to complete it (about 20 […]
Due to the high demand for the compositing tutorial I announced a few days ago, I’m releasing the .blend file that was used to create that tutorial. When the tutorial was announced here as well as the forums at blenderartists.org and then on Blender Nation, the Blender community swamped the on-demand video player at […]
For those of you who don’t read the News page on handturkeystudios.com, I’d like to announce that I have a new video tutorial with the HD On-Demand training hosted by cmiVFX. The really cool thing about it this time is that because of a partnership between CG Channel and cmiVFX, this 38-minute tutorial on […]
And one to go! This Saturday’s Blender Basics workshop that we announced on the Hand Turkey website went swimmingly. And now, the Basics II workshop is on this coming Saturday, the 16th of June. We’ll be covering some more advanced modeling techniques as well as muscling our way through Blender’s materials settings. […]
As per a recent post on Spread Firefox, all of the Firefox Flicks have been moved to Magnify.net. This will allow more in-depth commenting and rating, as well as allow more Firefox videos to be uploaded.
Of course, on the flip side of this, all of the ratings for each piece have been reset. […]
So a lot of little things have happened in the Blender world… and even a few of them are involving Hand Turkey (a-mazing!). Let’s do a run-down in list format!
I, along with Bassam Kurdali, Bob Holcomb, and David Millet, submitted a proposal to the Courses committee for this year’s SIGGRAPH conference. The proposal […]
In case you haven’t seen it on Blender Nation or the actual Blender website, the latest version of Blender has been released for public consumption. Go and check it out. There are all kinds of awesome new goodies in it (that I’ve been playing with in the development version for a little while […]
Well, we had our first Blender Workshop on Friday and all indications point to to a success. We had nine attendees, with some coming in from as far away as South Carolina! And it seems like there is enough interest to warrant more workshops in the future (both on Basics, like this workshop, […]
Well, we’ve announced it everywhere else… might as well make mention of it here.
For the last couple of months, I’ve been working with the folks at cmiVFX on a tutorial DVD for Blender’s integrated fluid simulator. Well, today that DVD has been finalized and released. It’s about 3 hours of instruction, with project […]
For anyone who might be interested, Hand Turkey Studios will be holding a Training Workshop in Blender next month, on the 12th of January. Blender is the 3D modeling and animation suite that we use for most of our animation work in the studio. It’s very powerful and it’s open source, so you […]
