Have you ever wanted to custom design your own electric guitar? Well here is your chance. Design and model your very own custom parts to attach to a Zoybar electric guitar hardware kit.

Official Press release

We are very excited to launch a new collaborative contest with Zoybar and Shapeways. This contest represents the first hardware integration between a mass production product and mass customization of user made applications. Within ten working days you can hold your own custom guitar and hardware features that were originally designed from your home computer!

In order to promote Open Hardware/Software we have initiated a contest with the prize of two electric Zoybar guitars along with the fabrication of the winning hardware design by Shapeways. Musicians, designers, animators – professionals and amateurs, are all invited to design original hardware features that can be incorporated with the Zoybar instruments and enter a contest to win their creation. Read the rest of this entry »

Issue #28 had a few issues that needed to be corrected, one being that we printed the wrong bio information under the wrong writer. This and a few other things have now been corrected and a new version has been loaded to our site. The mirrors should be updated within a few days as well. Read the rest of this entry »

“The wait for a comprehensive book on Python scripting in Blender 2.49 is over”. I said this in my mind when I got to review the book titled “Blender 2.49 Scripting” by Michel Anders (and published by [PACKT] Publishing). I only hope this book had come out earlier, but I guess its better late then never. What follows is my review of the book, arranged into sections. Read the rest of this entry »

We are pleased to announce that Shlomi Israely (aka sijp) has translated issue #27 of Blenderart Magazine into Hebrew. The Blenderart staff appreciates his hard work.

You can find it on our Issues Page, along with all the other wonderful translated issues.

Press Release from the RayGun Shootout contest
Cassie Merrick
Marketing Support Representative
InterGrid Limited

By golly, by hokey, April! What a month it has been…
Dr. Grordbort has worn his brain thin trying to distinguish which of your feeble attempts is worthy of one of his glorious prizes
Greg Broadmore and Richard Taylor came to his aid and helped him make this tremendous decision!
A winner was reluctantly chosen for the April competition ‘the most futuristic Raygun’ Read the rest of this entry »