A new modeling system is in development for Blender, called B-Mesh. If you are curious about the new capabilities of the B-Mesh, ZanQdo was kind enough to produce a great video showing a preview of the system.

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Now that the latest Mac OS X version is available, the question is if you should rush into upgrading or not. Will your system and applications continue to work? And, more importantly, will Blender continue to work?

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The first product of the Blender Institute is ready to be released. It`s a DVD series called Blender Open Movie Workshop.

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The Plumiferos team has made their version of Blender, called PlumiBlender, available to all.
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Tom Musgrove was interviewed by Computer World recently. Its an interesting read.

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Version 0.9 of Indigo is available for download. Indigo Renderer is a free physically-based ray tracer.

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Every so often someone will appear on BlenderArtists with a plan to make a great CG movie. All they need is lots of volunteers to do the work. We get quite a few requests for writing about these initiatives on this site, too. AndyD has published an article reviewing some of the problems of this approach, while giving a few helpful pointers to succeed.

On Sunday afternoon at 13.49, my son Mathias Jorrit was born. Mother and child are doing great. I never knew you could be this happy and proud (and tired ;-).

Here's another example of Blender being used to create a clean and professional product presentation video.

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You might know Mathias Pedersen from his "Starry Night" image that was used as the Blender 2.43 splash screen. He also is one of the authors of the "the Essential Blender" book recently out. It is quite an accomplishment for someone that is 16 years old. I see great promise in Mathias, as he comes off as being a very focused and determined person, who would be an asset on any creative team.

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After spotting Blender in the Microsoft.com Knowledgebase and finding Elephants Dream available for download from Microsoft.com, we have now received a Blender sighting in the 'Microsoft Expression Blend Bible' :)

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Blender was used at the funkfeuer artlab 2007 in Kunsthaus Graz to render the status of the event's wireless network.

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Ton Roosendaal has announced that the Blender Foundation is now recruiting for the Apricot Project. The deadline for submissions is midnight, November 25, 2007, Europe time.

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Did you know that you can set up animations without manually inserting keyframes? Eugene has published a good short videotutorial on this topic. It's good to see you back in Blenderland, Eugene!

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Tony Mullen submitted the following report of the Blender user meeting in the Pink Cow cafe bar in Tokyo in September.

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