What About Blender? It’s Free, But Powerful Enough To Let You Work On Your Very Own Premium 3D Animation Projects!

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I know this is old news, but I like to rant on anyway!  With Blender, you don’t really have to pay for super, super expensive 3D animation software to be able to create great 3D animated art works and films.  If you don’t believe me, all you have to do is just take a glimpse at various snapshots of famous works by various companies in the short film clip right after the break.  The snapshots of various beautifully crafted 3D artworks and films were essentially, carefully pieced together in a short film clip to show how far a free but powerful 3D animation software known as Blender has progressed.  Watching the film clip, one would have thought that the works within might have been created by some super expensive 3D animation software.  You can check out this very film clip right after the break.

Convinced?  If so, you might have wondering why on earth people are still paying for super expensive 3D animation software, right?  Well, I think it’s depending on how one perceives his or her favorite brand.  Actually, not to put it so blandly, it’s probably more about how one would be able to use a specific 3D animation software in the most effective and efficient manner.  One example among many would be to create a short 3D animation work for an advertisement film clip in a very short period of timeframe but yet the quality of the work must not feel rush.

So, perhaps we cannot really compare one superb 3D animation software against another just as superb.  Nonetheless, we can always look at what available special features that are uniquely belong to a specific 3D animation software and make a determination on why one should go learn, buy, and use such a specific 3D animation software.  Luckily, Blender provides enough amazing features that are capable in allowing so many people to take up Blender and create great 3D artworks and animated films.  Best of all, Blender is free of charge.  What do you think of Blender?

Personal note:  I too might have to take up Blender when I have more spare time.  By saying this, I mean I want to learn how to use Blender soon enough.  Obviously, the video above has stimulated my ambition in exaggerating my imagination in 3D.

What About VirtualBSD 9?

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Just recently, I’ve been playing with a new Unix distribution known as VirtualBSD.  Apparently, I like it!  VirtualBSD isn’t the same as other BSD distributions such as FreeBSD.  How come?  Well, let say you cannot directly install VirtualBSD onto a machine/computer, but you have to use virtualization for it.  So, VirtualBSD is meant to be used with VMware.  Don’t sweat VirtualBox users, because the developers of VirtualBSD also have you guys in their mind, and so they had created a script which will help you convert VirtualBSD for VMware into VirtualBSD for VirtualBox.

People might wonder why the developers force users to use virtualization for VirtualBSD.  Well, I think the developers want to encourage more users to use BSD/Unix type of operating systems; by not making users to go through the long process of installing a BSD/Unix type of operating systems, instead users can just add VirtualBSD virtual hard disk onto a new virtual machine, launch it, and have a BSD/Unix type of operating systems to play, learn, and experiment with.  Nonetheless, adding VirtualBSD 9, the latest VirtualBSD version at we speak, onto VirtualBox would not be totally hassle free, but it’s still a lot faster than having to install an operating system.

I’ve created a video on VirtualBSD 9 which you can watch right after the break.  The video will guide you through the process of adding VirtualBSD 9 onto VirtualBox virtual machine.  For the bonus, the video will show you how to use portsnap to fetch and update ports tree collection so you can install Linux applications/software onto VirtualBSD (a Unix type), and how to add and remove users on VirtualBSD 9.  So, if you really want to learn how to use BSD but do not really want to go through the trouble of installing it, then I suggest you check out my video right after the break so you know how to get VirtualBSD 9 up and running quickly.  Enjoy!

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