3D Art was Re: Nodoka suggestions for Fedora 10

[Máirín Duffy]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 16:08 +0000, María Leandro wrote:
>> I would love to see some more eyecandy in this next release of Fedora,
>> something more graphicall. i think either on version 6 or 7 we had
>> something like that.
>>
>> What do you thing of something like this:
>>
>> http://www.3d-fantasyart.net/fantasy/secret_valley.jpg
>>
>>
> That picture would have been made with Bryce, 
> and possible Poser\Daz|studio for the "Horses". 
> Trees probably from Bryce tree lab or imported from X-Frog.
> 
> 
> Nice background material, and time consuming to create,
> using repo apps. But give me the time.
> 
> Using closed,  you could have it in an hour or two.
> But that is not the road to take.
> At the moment, have not come across any f\oss,
> quadrupeds. So modelling is required.
> Anatomically correct horse, would take time.
> Trees another problem.
> 
> But I do agree 3d is nice -eye-candy,
> maybe for an extras package.
> 
> And I will personally start using Blender to that aim.
> In the interim 3d should maybe be kept light (time-wise).

There are quite a few free models for Blender out there. Mancandy is one 
notable one: 
http://www.blendernation.com/2007/10/18/mancandy-officially-released/

More here:

http://e2-productions.com/repository/index.php

If you google around you will find lots.

~m