For those of you using Blender 2.41, Ton has started to post a list of changes that will be in the next version (which most of us are currently referring to as version 2.42).
Upcoming Blender Changes
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Monthly Archives: May 2006
SharpConstruct 0.12 RC 2 Polygon Painter Released
The latest SharpConstruct (a 3D modeling program that paint depths on to polygon models in real-time) was released on April 29th with several fixes. (Image by TorQ)
Blender.org Gallery Updated: March 2006
The March edition of the blender.org gallery is online. Lots of beautiful images, and a few crazy, funny and even scary ones.
Blender Library Script 1.2
Mariano has Bear Town – An Open Movie Using Blender
Look out Muppets, Andrew Young is about to bring classic puppetry and cg together into a feature length film.
Blender Battles May Challenge – ‘Then it Became Reality’
Blender Battles kicks each month off with a new Monthly Challenge topic… This Months challenge is centred around compositing, with the winner receiving a months free rendering at Respowers online renderfarm.
CAD Tool: Blender Caliper Script
Working with Render Reality, Macouno has published a helpful script designed to allow measurements in Blender. Especially useful for architects (see our previous post about CAD modeling), this script allows scalability, measurements in several units and even render time results.
Sunflow 0.06.1 Photo-Realistic Renderer Released
Chris Kulla has released his latest version of Sunflow, the open source, platform independent (thanks to Java), photo-realistic rendering system.
Blender Jobs
The professional 3D industry is slowly starting to discover Blender. Last month, two job opportunities have appeared on the BlenderArtist forum, and a new website has appeared that focuses solely on Blender jobs.
Tutorial: Cartoon Eyes and IpoDrivers
IpoDrivers are one of the less exploited feature of the new ones packed in the previous version of Blender (2.40) although it could be a powerful tool and a real time saver when it comes to complex animations, this is mainly due to the difficulty in understanding what they really are, how they can be used and in which scenarios they are more handy.
