It just became a lot easier to play Yo Frankie for Ubuntu Linux users.

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We've bundled a few Durian updates for your reading pleasure today.

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Mancandy announces Durian from david bolton on Vimeo.

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In the past 6 weeks there have been an amazing 1700 preorders for the Durian project DVD, 300 short of the goal, but a record amount for any Blender Foundation project so far and a great effort by the community!

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Ton Roosendaal writes: Tomorrow, september 15th, the first phase of the Durian pre-order campaign will end. Everyone who orders and pays for the DVD on the 15th will still get a name credit in the official movie scroll.

Current total is 1550 already, which is totally awesome! :)

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On the Durian blog a humorous and insightful video has been posted about the preproduction week with the team. There's even a surprise appearance by someone here at Blendernation ;)
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As you may all remember, the newest Open Movie, Project Durian, is underway. These Open Movies are organized to improve Blender as much as possible. For Project Durian one of the goals is to make the next Blender series, Blender 2.5x, stable for production use.

It is possible for you to get your name in the end credits of the movie. How?

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The Durian team have been busy keeping their blog up to date! Among other things, they posted this hilarious video of their search for the Amsterdam 'Tropenmuseum':

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Blender.org does a good job in explaining how the GPL works for you as an artist. It answers questions like "Can I sell my Blender creations?" and "Can I license .blend files myself?". While this is not a new page, I found it very informative and as a Blender user I recommend you read it.

Link

• Blender.org: GPL For Artists

Ah, the joys of open content! Even three years after its release, people are still working with the Elephants Dream assets. Today, Dalai Felinto created a few full-dome stills of Elephants Dream, making the movie look even weirder. Pretty cool.

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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.

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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!

Despite just having become a father last week, JesterKing has already picked up coding again and has hacked together a real-time (well, updated every 5 minutes) graph of the Durian sales. The height of the graph represents 2000. Each dark gray horizontal line represents 500, where the lighter gray are 250. More info on his blog. Haven't ordered yet? Here's your chance!

The Durian marketing department (if they have one ;-) is slowly starting to wake up. Today, David Revoy revealed a preview of a concept art painting time-lapse video which will be included on the Durian DVD. He uses Mypaint / Alchemy and Gimp on Linux.

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The first completed book from Free Software Magazine Press, by longtime Free Software Magazine columnist Terry Hancock is now available. Terry explores the reality of these projects from an insider’s perspective and picks out a set of five easy to follow rules for keeping your own projects in tune with the rules of free culture and on the track to success.

Among other things, it zooms in on Blender's history and the Blender Foundation's successful philosophy of driving Blender development with community-supported open content projects. A good read for every Blender head!

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Ton Roosendaal writes:

Brad Peebler, President of Luxology, invited me to have a meeting at Siggraph to start a friendly relation and check on ways how we can make Modo and Blender work together smoothly for our users.

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The Blender Foundation issued a press release at SIGGRAPH yesterday with information on Blender 2.5 and its relation to Durian. For the first time ever, an expected release date was included!

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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

• Durian blog announcement
• Blender E-shop