Saya may look like a young, beautiful schoolgirl, but she is actually just an ultra-realistic computer generated model created by Japanese duo Telyuka.
Source: Meet Saya, the Japanese Schoolgirl Who Doesn’t Exist | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities
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If you've ever wanted a peek inside the world of everyday Japan, Tokyo Cosmo, a new animated short, may be one of the most stunningly accurate looks you'll ever get.Rendered in a style very similar to the work of many Pixar classics, the four-and-a-half-minute clip, directed by Takahiro Miyauchi and Takuya Okada, takes us inside the home of a woman with a fantastic imagination. Her imagination is so powerful that a simple household nuisance soon becomes an epic struggle. Things get so crazy we even get to see a courageous flying pig, a city-destroying monster and a giant lightsaber.
Source: Pixar-style animated short from Japan delivers flying pigs and lightsabers
Source: Bet you can’t tell whether or not the girl in this picture is real
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The last time I mentioned Krum was over a year and a half ago. The game has progressed a lot since them!Hey guys, I've made a new trailer video for my game KRUM.It’s a cartoon-ish style, third-person, role-playing game. KRUM has medieval settings, with some fantasy elements…yeah well, actually it’s just a brutal melee game with advanced combat tactics.
And most important about it - the game it self is using Blender GE and Python 2.62. and all its assets and animations are made in Blender.
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Received this today:
The Gooseberry crowd-funding campaign is over!
Unfortunately we didn't get enough funding in to make a feature length movie. We do have a lot of support though - over 4500 people donated or subscribed. That's more than enough to start working on the Pilot of the film.
You can read a lot more about it here: http://gooseberry.blender.org/campaign-wrap-up-the-pilot/
In a later email you will be contacted about refunds, cancellations, or activations of pledges. We won't do anything without your explicit approval. Just give us a bit of time to handle it well.
Please read the following carefully, one of the cases applies yours.
1) PayPal and Bank pledges If you paid us already you will be contacted today or tomorrow. You then can decide whether you prefer a refund or if want to support the film project after all.
2) Credit card pledges If you have pledged using a Credit Card, no charges have happened yet. We will contact you early next week with an option to cancel the pledge, or to activate it. We will not charge any card without your permission.
3) Cloud pledges If you promised to join Blender Cloud if we made our target, you will get contacted next week too.
4) Active Cloud Subscriptions If you already joined Blender Cloud, you will get contacted next week with our plans for further development of Blender Cloud, and how the Pilot project will fit in. We hope you stay on board, but a subscription can be cancelled any time.
You can contact us any time with questions. We do our best to handle emails within a day!
Thanks,
The Blender Cloud team: - Ton Roosendaal - Francesco Siddi
The Blender Institute has stopped the Gooseberry campaign now that it’s clear that the updated target of 5,000 supporters cannot be met. Ton presents a slimmed down version of the project which will still lead to substantial improvements of Blender. Of course, each supporter gets the choice to keep his pledge in place or to withdraw it now.
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It looks like the message came through – as of 9am this morning (CET), Sintel is available on YouTube again. In case you missed it, there was an outcry on the internet this weekend as it was pulled by Sony after alleged copyright infringement.
To put things into perspective, these YouTube takedowns are massively automated. Software scans all the uploaded media and flags any material where they detect copyrighted material. Large corporations such as Sony have enough traction with YouTube that they can then also automatically take down these media (smaller companies have to manually submit a DMCA takedown notice).
So is there still a problem? You bet there is – we’re lucky to have a huge and vocal community behind us, that spread this story over the web in a couple of hours. The story was featured on Cartoon Brew, Boing Boing, Slashdot and Reddit (which nuked the BlenderNation server for a few hours). This helped revert the takedown. If you’re a small publisher however, you will find it nearly impossible to talk to anyone and get your video back up. These automated takedowns can destroy your project and leave you powerless.
Boing Boing hits the nail on the head with their comment:
While it’s probably a mistake, because this is so brain-meltingly obviously wrong, it’s also a very stark example of how sloppy, over-broad, and consequence-free enforcement of copyright can damage culture.
I don’t think there was any intent behind this particular takedown – just an unfair, unaccountable system. I’m glad we got Sintel back.
Wuaki is a streaming service like Netflix, Love Film and Amazon Prime. I found it when I was clicking through the apps on my Panasonic Viera TV, and found that the three Blender-made short films were all there. You can also access them on the web interface. Oh, and they’re free to rent and watch, so you can’t get better than that.
For once, I’m not talking about the weather. I’m talking about the movie with Kirsten Bell and Idina Menzel. The movie had a lot of hype in America and you know something’s big when you get this released by the studio themselves. It’s the song “Let It Go”, sung by Elsa (Idina Menzel), with lines swapped out for other languages – everything from English, German, Swedish, to the lesser known languages – Catalan, Castillo and even the Eastern languages got a look in – Korean, Japanese, Cantonese Chinese and Mandarin Chinese.
I watched the film yesterday and, although it was sterotypical Disney – good guy, bad guy, love triumphs over everything, etc, etc. There were a few things in there that were not typical Disney. Prejudice over Elsa’s powers, exploitation of Anna’s love for Hanz, my jaw dropped when I saw the sequence for Let It Go, and how Elsa formed the Ice Palace.
The songs were really catchy – unlike some musical films, where the songs are sung too quick, I could hear what the actors and actresses were saying, and I have to say, I suffered last night with Frozen earworms, and “Let It Go” ringing in my head all night.
What I do like about watching professional CG-made films like this, is that they do give you inspirations for your own work.
The line between fantasy and reality is getting ever more blurry. A CG girl manages to snare over 1000 paedophiles? Here’s another example of how close to realism CG has gone.
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There has been a lot of talk recently of improving the UI of Blender. Andrew Price of Blender Guru has put up a survey of the Blender user-base . You can find it at the link below.
Andrew Price writes about proposed changes to the Blender UI
