I’ve managed to learn a bit of German since I’ve been living in Vienna, it was almost as hard as learning the Blender interface – but not quite – and so I got a lot out of reading the latest issue of Blenderzin. I sometimes had to look stuff up in my favourite online translator Leo, but mostly my German was up to the job of reading it.
It is absolutely worth a look though, even if you don’t know a word of German. It’s absolutely packed with 3D computer art from the German Blender community, including lots of screen grabs of the settings needed to produce them. It’s interesting for example to see (in a previous issue) a render of a WWII fighter plane, but instead of a Mustang streaking over a desert backdrop we have a very Germanic looking Junkers in a snowstorm on the Eastern Front. It’s Blender, but not as we know it.
In a cool, easy to read on the computer, landscape format Blenderzin is a nice little magazine to look at. It’s very professionally desk top published in a 41 page clean and clear pdf format.
There is a report about Blender at CeBIT, you really need German for that one, but the side by side review of Indigo and YafRay includes test renders that say everything that need to be said. Then it’s straight on to the WIP (works in progress) section to look at some nice renders. We start with a very accomplished looking little shop of horrors looking plant that actually looks finished to me.
The gallery is next, more inspirational renders, including a Mojito that makes me thirst just to look at it.
