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My tutorial for AETuts+ is finally out !!
It covers Time Remapping, Waveform to keyframe conversion, expression, … I got really inspired by watching all those reels from motion designer or filmmaker with music most of the time from Hecq. I was wondering how they did their editing and cuts, so I came up with this idea. I don’t know if it’s the way they did it, but this is my approach.

Hope you like it !!!

Link : Audio Reactant Time Remapping Tutorial at AETuts+

You can now find 3 new videos on blenderlabrat’s blog about his Blender 2.5 Tour.

There as been a lot of changes since his first tour of 2.5 and I think it’s worth taking a look at this new tour now because the new version of Blender is getting closer and closer to its final look and I think that’s a good starting point for people to have a real and nice sneak peak of what it’s going to be.

The 1rst part covers (user interface) :

• Context! what it is and how to understand it
• UI manipulation, split, join, rip, swap areas
• 3dview tools pane and repeat last operator
• threading, constant responsive UI
• new button types
• misc stuff, like quickly themes colors and such

http://blenderlabrat.blogspot.com/2009/10/25-tour-9-part-1.html

The 2nd part covers (animation) :

• Basic Keyframing
• Keying sets
• F-curve basics
• Modifiers
• Drivers ( didn’t want to work but i showed the procedure)
• Quat V Eulars
• Non-Linear Animation Editor

http://blenderlabrat.blogspot.com/2009/10/25-tour-9-part-2.html

The 3rd part covers (materials/shading) :

• Tour of new buttons layout and how to use it
• Multiple material
• Textures
• New bump mapping and colour managment
• Volumetrics
• Volumetric Textures

http://blenderlabrat.blogspot.com/2009/10/25-tour-9-part-3-materialsshading.html

The 4th part covers (particles & simulations) :

• where things are now
• new cache system
• effectors
• Smoke
• point density texture

http://blenderlabrat.blogspot.com/2009/10/25-tour-9-part-4-particles-and.html

The 5th part covers (Cache Editing) :

• how does simulations are cached on Harddrive for realtime playback

http://blenderlabrat.blogspot.com/2009/10/25-tour-9-part5-cache-editing.html

The first release of the 2.5x series is expected to be available in october 2009

This is what you can see at the bottom of the Blender Siggraph 2009 Flyer which you can download on Blender.org here : http://download.blender.org/institute/25_flyer5.pdf

So now we get official annoucement for the following features :

• Still free (no kidding :p)
• New Animation system
• New interface
• Macros, History and Search feature
• New Python Scripting API
• Custom Key Binding (let you make your own shortcut … swweeeeeeeetttt)

The entire Blender Siggraph Press Kit can be found here

I just discovered the work of Patrick Boivin who’s doing several Stop Motion with Toys. I love it ! Check out his youtube channel here : http://www.youtube.com/PatrickBoivin

So you got this strange feeling of “déjà vue” each time you are watching a disney cartoon ?

Watch the following video…