Blender Creature Factory
Just bought my copy of Creature Factory from the Blender shop…
Creature Factory from Andy Goralczyk on Vimeo.
I’m such a sucker for training books and DVDs… Once upon a time I spent all of the money I should have spent on tuition on a copy of Lightwave and a bunch of training books and it seems to have gotten me somewhere. I guess that’s where the warm and fuzzies come from every time I crack open a copy of “Ajax Demystified” or “PHP Hacks.”
I’m guess I’m just a big fan of seeing how other people do things. Some of you may be saying “wait a second… Shaun always acts like he’s right, doesn’t he?” Well… that sense of arrogance has to come from somewhere 
But I digress…
Blender 3D - Open Source 3D Animation Software
- Blender 3D - Open source animation software
Blender has done some amazing things in the last few years. Producing an open source 3D animated movie (Elephant’s Dream) is such a great marketing idea and a solid learning tool for people looking to get into their product (or into 3D in general). And now that they’ve got an open source game (Apricot) and another movie (Big Buck Bunny) it seems to be a bit of a trend. What a great time to get into the world of 3D.
Seriously - why would you pay for a 3D application these days? Sure Maya has this or XSI has that but whatever happened to being creative with the tools at hand? And at it’s rapid development pace Blender is starting to seriously rival the big 4…
