Darren’s Corner

Darren’s Blog on Technology and Other Stuff

Jan

26

Big Buck Bunny explains the Creative Commons License

By dpearson

Jan

23

New Blender Review Sheets

By dpearson

Just added some handy “Cheat Sheets” for common Blender functions as well as a guide to applying textures to Blender objects to the Tutorial section.

Jan

19

Minnesota Blenders Users Group

By dpearson

Looks like MinnBUG (The Minnesota Blenders Users Group) is having it’s inaugural meeting on Feb 5th at 1:00 at the University of Minnesota. Thinking I might attend. The meeting ends at 4:00 and kick-off for the Super Bowl doesn’t start until 5:30. Looks like fun.

Jan

19

Blogging Exercise for Spring 2012

By dpearson

The semester, I’m teaching a class at Saint Paul College called Blogging Applications. I’m pretty excited about it. For one of the first assignments, students will be required to look through the list of the top blogs found on Technorati and identify various feature of one of the specific blogs. They will also be required to leave feedback on this specific post about which blog they found interesting.

Jan

11

SPC Visualization Page on Facebook

By dpearson

SPC Visualization

Promote Your Page Too

Just added a Facebook page for Saint Paul College Visualization students to show off some of the great final projects students have done over the years.

Dec

23

Animation Final Projects – Fall 2011

By dpearson

Check out some of the amazing work my students did for DGIM 2572 at Saint Paul College.

Dec

21

The 3D Web is Here

By dpearson

Just added a new tutorial showing how to embed Blender 3D models into HTML. Pretty neat stuff!

Here’s the page without all the other blog info. Use the middle mouse button to zoom, pan and rotate.

Note: Your browser needs to support HTML5 and Java in order to see and manipulate the image above.

Dec

7

Rush and the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame

By dpearson

Article about Rush (the Canadian band, not Limbaugh) on NPR

Nov

15

Blender Target Camera Tutorial

By dpearson

Just created a quick tutorial video on setting up a target camera in Blender 2.5.

Oct

25

Added Another Blender Exercise

By dpearson

Check out the Blender 2.5 Shapekey exercise posted in the Tutorials section.