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Blender 2.49 has just been released. This is a fully-loaded upgrade of Blender including many game engine improvements (video textures, real-time dome rendering, a Bullet physics upgrade, an improved Python API and a hand full of overall speedups), the long awaited texture nodes, direct painting of textures on your 3D objects, improved boolean operations, JPEG2000 support and Etch-a-ton, a sketching technique for rigging. Full details are in the *excellent* releaselogs. Many thanks to everyone who's involved in this release!
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Blender master Endi has published a real time animation of a horse statue with some amazing materials. Get it at BlenderArtists.
Maillists, forums and Twitter are buzzing about the imminent release of Blender 2.49! The new splash screen is by Clemens Granjon.
Curious about how the current builds of Blender 2.5 look? Mfoxdogg has published a number of video tours. Remember: 2.5 is still in early development – it's not even nearly finished or available for download yet, and many things can still change.
Bummer – we didn't bring enough potatoes. We'll keep you informed of our new plans.
BAM4 has begun over at BlenderArtists.org. Create an animation of at least 10 seconds using the supplied base .blend. You have four weeks after which the community will vote! Full details on BlenderArtists.
Scheduled downtime: Tonight 20:30-21:30 GMT+2
5 Comments Published by Bart on May 27th, 2009 in BlenderNation
We'll be moving BlenderNation to a more delicious server tonight. The plan is to bring the site down at 20:30 GMT+2 (Amsterdam time) and to spend about one hour to migrate and test everything.
Update: the timezone had me confused :)
Joseph Eagar has started a new weblog on the progress of the new BMesh implementation. BMesh aims to be a well-maintainable mesh implementation that allows for more powerful and stable mesh editing tools in Blender.
A new issue of the Russian Blender-Empire magazine has been released.
Blender Dev Talk: 2.5 and looks on the future
14 Comments Published by Bart on May 26th, 2009 in Development, People
Here's Martin 'theeth' Poirier's presentation on Blender 2.5 development during the Libre Graphics Meeting 2009. 35 minute video, well worth watching. Enjoy!
Creating a Teddy Bear by Jonathan Williamson
10 Comments Published by banor on May 25th, 2009 in Videotutorials
Jonathan Williamson has done it again! Check out this two-part tutorial on creating a teddy bear, complete with modeling and setting up a procedural burlap material.
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Sebastian König has created a videtutorial for CGCookie about using curves in Blender, "Working with Curves in Blender". It's a good overview of using curves and I learned from it!
Luca Pinciani wrote: Blender Magazine Italia 5 is been released! The latest issue of the italian magazine about Blender, can be downloaded from www.BlenderMagazineItalia.it. In this issue there are a lot of interesting topics: linear workflow, rendering algorithms, shape key curve, V-Ray, 3d compositing, and much more!
Rotoscoping and Matte Painting in Blender
22 Comments Published by banor on May 22nd, 2009 in Tutorials
Have you ever wondered how to create alpha masks for compositing in Blender? Well, Philippe Roubal has written an explanation on how to do rotoscopoing and matte painting in Blender, so check it out now!
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Microsoft took over Caligari TrueSpace earlier last year and later released the software as freeware. They have now decided to discontinue TrueSpace – the first services will be disabled by tomorrow. This is a truly sad day for their loyal user base.
BGE Updates + New YoFrankie Video!
23 Comments Published by Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) on May 21st, 2009 in Apricot, Games
If you can recall a previous article, the Blender Game Engine is currently undergoing huge developments led by Entertainment Arts Research. Here's a 'brief' update of some of the new things we're seeing appearing currently, plus a more recent demonstration video of Yo Frankie.
It is with great pride (and just a tiny bit of fear) that I announce BlenderNation Links! I'm hoping that it will solve the biggest challenge for Blender users: finding quality and up to date tutorials, downloadable models, textures, books.. BN Links is a community-driven website where authors can leave their links and tag them. Our link browser allows you to drill down to exactly the kind of content that you're looking for.
Melbourne Blender Society Meeting, 27th May
12 Comments Published by Bart on May 20th, 2009 in Usermeetings
Melbourne Blender Society have planned their next usermeeting for next week's Wednesday, the 27th of May.
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