Many Blender users are experiencing problems with the interface speed when running Blender on Leopard. These issues seem to be related to an update in the OpenGL graphic system that Apple made in 10.5. After a bit of experimenting, a group of users found a solution.
If you don’t have plans for tonight yet and you’re lucky enough to live in Barcelona then maybe you can check out this masterclass. Sorry for the late post!
Here’s another timelapse video created by Jonathan Williamson. The original modeling time was about one hour and the timelapse video cones in at just under ten minutes.
Enjoy this long (101 minutes) and lively discussion between some the industry’s leading artists and directors.
Well well, 2008 is starting to look like the year that Blender Magazines started appearing everywhere around the world. After announcing the German Blenderzin only four days ago, the Italian community now also have their own magazine. The first issue (mirror 1, 2) is 55 pages long, contains tons of interesting material AND a picture of the illustrious Espresso-machine the Italian community sent to the Peach team :). Too bad I don’t speak Italian!
The user amorilia of the crymod.com forum has updated his FarCry export script
for Blender so that you can export objects to be used in the ego shooter game
“Crysis”
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Some exciting changes in Blender and the development is at BCON 3
“The work of the past half year – also thanks to the open movie project “Peach” – has resulted in a greatly improved feature set, worth releasing! We currently are scheduling a 2.46, to accompany the Peach movie release in april/may 2008.”
When I was at the Blender Institute a few weeks ago, we didn’t only talk about Peach, Apricot and Durian, but Ton and I also talked about the future of Blender. What are the major changes that are planned for Blender 2.50, and what will happen to Blender in the five years after that?
Blender Master Shigeto Maeda reports on the graduation project of one of his students: Northern Lights.
