Krita

Krita, an open-source “creative sketching and painting application, with graphics tablet support”.

Also worth a look, the similar open-source software MyPaint.

Videos of the Blender Conference 2010

Complete Blender Conference 2010, on Youtube.

Schedule includes stuff for Blender-heads (literally) such as “Sculpting human heads”, but also talks of more general interest to 3D animators:

How to raise your profile as an artist

How to successfully produce animation over the internet

Durian Animators: Bringing Sintel to life

Texuring and light design for Sintel and the Shaman hut

Lighting and Compositing for Sintel

Talk: making of Elephants Dream in stereo 3D

Place your BETTs

Reallusion will be here in the UK in a week or two, at the big London BETT 2011 Education Expo…

Lost in Shadow

Apparently only a so-so game when played by grown-ups, but the full-price new Wii videogame Lost in Shadow has a nice visual aesthetic going on…

Wizard of Oz character set

Listening to the recent Wolf & Dulci Shows, I heard that Dulci was looking for some Wizard of Oz characters for iClone:

Dorothy

The Tin Man

the Cowardly Lion

Scarecrow

Bigboss’s Toto