Anyone who works with Flash should find this interesting. Blender user Dennis Ippel has created a script which can convert Blender objects in Flash ActionScript 3.0 objects. This allows the creation of realtime-3D rendering within Flash (which is more typically used to render two-dimensional vector imagery). For more information, visit the exporter’s official page, or its wiki entry.

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DeeVad at Blenderartists recently posted a screen recording of a Speed Painting experimentation in Blender’s UV/Image Editor.

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Hamed Zaghaghi has been developing these features and they’re currently being reviewed by Ton. The results look very promising.

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Blender Underground has been posting their experiences working through Tony Mullen’s “Introducing Character Animation with Blender”. Its an excellent read that starts here. In addition, recently a detailed Spring Rig tutorial has been posted there that came about while answering a question from the forums. Find it here.

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Discovered by Len at Blenderartists. See post here. It seems some new things have been periodically posted in the Peach Media Gallery.

Update??: I don’t recall seeing these. Little .ogg videos of some animation tests. Its possible these aren’t new, but even if there aren’t, someone could have missed them.

Please keep in mind Sago has clarified that this test is an early try and doesn’t represent the current state.

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The most recent Peach blog post brings some great news to the Peach team. The team has been staring with wide eyes at the approaching headlights of the deadline. Many things have slowed the progress of animating. So the dream team comes in. Peach has hired some old faces to help out.

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Development continues full speed ahead on 2.5. Thankfully keeping us informed some developers have been posting youtube videos of new additions/works in progress as they happen. We thank you for this.

*Note: These are early interface development videos. Consider them as such.*

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Have you just pressed “Ctrl W” to save the final version of that cool new animation of yours? Ready to render?

But, wait, maybe you happen to have some computers over a network. If this is your case, it’s a good idea to think about Yadra.

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There is a great review on the Apricot blog of a recent workshop that took place discussing the status and plans for the production. Continue Reading 'Apricot Pre-production review workshop' »