During their first week-long workshop, the Durian team have gone over the requirements for new/improved Blender functionality. Brecht did a write-up on the Durian blog.
Durian: Blender Development Targets
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Monthly Archives: August 2009
BlenderArt Magazine #23: ‘Epic Fantasy’
Sandra Gilbert writes: As excitement builds around the launch of the Durian Project, we decided to share in some of the fun and devote an issue to Epic Fantasy. This issue is filled with articles that are guaranteed to inspire you to start a few epics of your own. And speaking of the Durian Project, the team members have all arrived and are already starting to get things organized for their Epic Fantasy. Preliminary Blender Development Projects have already been established and discussions are already underway for developing the visual style of the movie.
So grab your copy today.
Blender Sightings
More Blender sightings and a vanity BlenderNation sighting!
Short Film Competition Finalist – Havoc
A group of young filmmakers have entered the ‘Meccano Mad Movie Challenge’ with their live action/3D movie ‘Havoc’.
Blender Developers Meeting Notes
Things were hectic at the Blender Foundation this week with the arrival of the Durian team. Still, Ton managed to list the most important issues for you.
New site feature: edit your comments
Ever had that D’oh! feeling after making a mistake in a comment? You can now make changes to your comments for up to 15 minutes after posting them. Enjoy, and please let me know if there are any problems with it.
If you want to try it out, please feel free to post some crazy comments in this post ;-)
BlenderArt Magazine #9 in Spanish
Another issue of BlenderArt Magazine has been translated into Spanish.
GIMP 2.7 Development Release
The GIMP team have just released version 2.7. This version is a ‘development’ version, or a snapshot of the current version in their development tree. While it’s not stable or final, it contains a lot of new goodness that may be useful to you.
Meet the Durian team!
Project Durian has kicked off this weekend with a week-long meeting of all the team members (except for Campbell Barton). Last night I met them all during dinner in Amsterdam and shot this short movie in which they all introduce themselves (more info on the team on the Durian blog). As a bonus, Ton will be giving away the first details of the plot! (In addition to few other, not-so-shocking details ;-)
PS: yes, I skipped someone – Angela’s husband. That was rather rude of me – terribly sorry!
Indigo 2.0 Released
Indigo (which recently went commercial) have released version 2.0 of their renderer.
