Ton has published the development roadmap for Blender 2.44 and 2.50. 2.44 will be worked on during April. It will be a release with mainly bugfixes and minor improvements. This will be the last release before 2.50 which will consist of the long expected UI overhaul and other feature upgrades. The tentative releasedate for 2.50 is october/november 2007. Check out the report on Blender.org.
Dave Jarvis has released version 1.0.0 of his Audio Analysis script. This script will read a .wav file and map the amplitude to several types of IPO curves. It’s a great tool for synchronising certain effects (like thunder and lighting, explosions etc) in your animation with the audio.
Maybe you’ve seen the Téo & Téa Banner on the homepage of BlenderNation during the last week. This is off-topic, but I’d like to explain why it is there.
The deadline for the TD3D.com Realtime 3D Contest has been extended to March 31st.
Today is the submission deadline for Bob Holcomb’s compositing contest.
The Mancandy contest is over! About twenty people participated, fourteen people voted and I applied my advanced math this morning to figure out the winner. Who that is? Read on…
If you live in the Netherlands then you have another chance to see Elephants Dream on the big screen: the organisation of the 23rd Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival (AFFF) has accepted it for their programme.
Today is the deadline for the ‘What Did YOU Do to Poor Mancandy?’ contest (if you can call it a contest ;-). Read more.
One week ago a thread on BlenderArtists.org got me wondering how everyone was using the Mancandy rig. There were some very funny examples, not all of them very pleasant for poor little Mancandy. Little did he know that things were about to become a lot worse!
