In nuce: The Blender Foundation has released the first episode of the Blenderheads documentary series. This is according to a message published by Francesco Siddi, Chief Executive Officer at Blender, on 24 January this year on blender.org . In terms of content, the documentary not only deals with the development process of the open-source 3D software Blender, but also takes a closer look at the people and the community behind the software. The other episodes in the series will be published quarterly.

In toto: In the first episode, with a total length of just under twenty-five minutes, filmmaker Maaike Kleverlaan explores the Blender headquarters – documenting the processes on site and talking to developers. Ton Roosendaal, chief developer of Blender and chairman of the Blender Foundation, is among those who have their say. The viewer is also up close and personal when the creative minds of the Blender Foundation throw themselves into the preparations for the Blender Conference 2022 (BCON 2022) – and then head to the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, the venue for BCON.

Click further: To the message on blender.org. Website of filmmaker Maaike Kleverlaan. As recently as 24 January this year , Digital Production reported on the upcoming release of Blender 3.5.

Sources: cgpress.org ( announcement by CGPress Staff), blender.org ( announcement by Francesco Siddi)

BLENDERHEADS – Ep. 1

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In nuce: The Blender Foundation has announced the Animation 2025 project. This is a three-year initiative (from January 2023 to the end of 2025) that will see a complete overhaul of character rigging and animation tools in Blender. This is according to the blog post The Future of Character Animation from 24 November by Sybren A. Stüvel (software developer at the Blender Institute).

In toto: The project was tackled as part of a three-day Blender developer workshop in October. The results of this workshop are presented for discussion in the fifty-minute video below. In addition to speculation about upcoming functions, some specific functions were mentioned that are likely to be tackled at the beginning of 2023. These include the development of new rig profiling tools, which will be called Rig Explainer, new rigging and constraint nodes, and a new three-dimensional skinning system.

Click further: Detailed insights into what the Animation 2025 project will entail can be found in the above blog post on blender.org. Digital Production last reported on the work of the Blender Foundation on 8 November this year – at that time it was applications tailored to specific areas – namely product presentation, education and VFX production – that were worth reporting on.

The Future of Character Animation & Rigging: a Q&A feeback session

Source: cgchannel.com ( report by Jim Thacker)

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In nuce: In this latest VFX breakdown from Rodeo FX, the VFXers show what they’ve done to get their pipelines smoking to bring the space saga Foundation to Apple TV screens. For many enthusiasts of the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov, Foundation is a definite series highlight. As Rodeo FX has informed us, VFX Supervisor Arnaud Brisebois and FX Supervisor Omar Meradi will be talking about their work on Foundation during a panel at this year’s FMX conference.

More about Foundation (at FMX 2022): Asimov fans will rejoice as the Apple series will be represented this FMX with another programme item, when Overall VFX Supervisor Chris MacLean (formerly of MR. X) will talk about how the series’ bombastic visual language was developed. For more information, click back to 17.12.2021 with a body part of your choice.

What can you expect at FMX 2022? If you want to find out early on what other event highlights await you at FMX, which takes place from 3 to 6 May, click back to 09.03.2022 , where we introduced you to further programme items (spoiler alert: lots of Marvel stuff!), or click back to 01.02.2022 to watch the eye-catching FMX trailer called “Burned”.

Foundation VFX Breakdown by Rodeo FX

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