Like all open projects by the Blender Foundation, project Durian will be partially financed pre-selling the movie, it’s assets and extensive documentation and (video-) training material on DVD. If you pre-order before september 15th your name will also appear in the movie’s credits!
The Durian blog now has a cool live sales-thermometer to see how they’re doing. Did you order a copy yet?
Links
We’ve mentioned this before, but I think it’s important enough to mention it again: the Blender 2.5 overview page contains everything you need to know about 2.5 except the release date. It is regularly updated so it’s a great source of information.
Avery Lanier reports on a training in Maryland for kids of 7-16 years old.
RenderPal V2 is a professional Render Management System, dedicated to distributed rendering across large render farms. From the artist’s workstation to the rendering machines, RenderPal V2 takes care of the entire rendering pipeline. It supports more than 25 renderers and compositing applications, including Maya, Mental Ray, XSI, 3D Studio MAX, Nuke, Cinema 4D, Shake, After Effects, Realflow, Lightwave and of course Blender.
The macfanboy universe is buzzing with rumours of a new tablet pc. Take a look at this video and pay attention to the last scene!
Christiaan Bakker [AniCator] presents a clever script to size and orient a 3D skybox around your game engine scene.
What turned out to be a faulty power cable caused a bit of a panic yesterday as it brought down Proog, the server that hosts the Blender e-shop, SVN and maillists. With our regular sysadmin on vacation and Ton working against Siggraph, Durian and 2.5 development deadlines, the timing was just great! We all feared that the disks had crashed but Justa, sysadmin at our host XS4ALL, noticed the loose wiring. Hurrah!
Google O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. Gerhard Völkl has created a script to export Blender content directly to it.
Matica.com created a simple air race game and used Blender for the game art.
Benoît Saint-Moulin is a teacher of interactive 3D technologies at the Belgian school Jacquard Infographie. He and a team of four students developed a game using a combination of tools including Blender, 3DS Max and the Gimp. They actually built an arcade machine around it with an innovative interface.
