I'll be visiting the Blender Institute later today and I hope I'll have a chance to talk to some of the people in the Apricot team. As they're in the last days of the project I'm sure they'll be busy enough, but I might just be able to squeeze a few minutes of attention out of them. What are your burning questions for them?

Update: thanks for all your input! I'll try to get the video up later today.

There's only 20 days left of the Apricot project (Yo Frankie!). Venomgfx (Pablo) has posted a new blog on the Apricot site regarding the plans for the final few weeks.

There's also a call for documentation/tutorial ideas to be included on the DVD, along with a list of ideas already thought up by the team for us to get excited about, so get on over to the blog and let them know what you'd like to see!

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After a lot of votes from the Blender community the Apricot team has decided on a final name for the Apricot game.

Its official title is 'Yo Frankie!' and the game episode is entitled 'A Furry Vendetta'

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Pablo (venomgfx) has made an interesting 10 minute video demonstrating a few different ways of using nodes and some GLSL features for real time game effects.

Continue Reading 'Apricot GLSL Shading Node Demonstration' »

The Apricot team needs your help choosing a name, and Margreet has posted two new video showing off some new features! Continue Reading 'Apricot: Title and New Videos' »

The first playable demo from the Apricot Project is available to download. Now you can try out a test level of the game, and play around with Frank.

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Frank, a main character in the upcoming Apricot game, has been finalized. He's rigged, textured and ready for some much needed animations. So the Apricot team have released him to the community and are looking to see what crazy animations everyone can come up with.

Continue Reading 'Apricot Animation – Community Input' »

Well, venomgfx said it would be done and so it was. Blenders' all-star coder Brecht has done it in record time! Blender now has real-time shadows in the editor and the Game Engine. Continue Reading 'Aproicot Update Follow-Up' »

The new update includes GLSL, and Shape Keys working in the Blender Game Engine. This update also includes various speedups of the BGE. You can get the latest build from graphicall.org.

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Do you know how to use the new features in the recently released apricot branch? If you want to know, just take a look at this great video tutorial, showing some great new tools for snapping, library browsing and baking.

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I know you are probably waiting for your Big Buck Bunny DVD or the internet release, but don't forget about the Apricot project, which is still running. If you want to take a look at some of the new tools, developed for Apricot, a few test builds are starting to appear!

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Pablo Vazquez [VenomGFX] will be joining the Apricot team next week as their new Lead artist. Former lead artist Qareeb left the project for personal reasons. Adding Pablo to the team should definitely increase the project's wackiness! With some luck, he'll be in Amsterdam just in time to be at the Peach Premiere. Looking forward to meet you there, Pablo!!

The Apricot team have posted some SWEET new screenshots on their blog.

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Did you check out the Apricot Blog lately? If you didn`t, you should take a look at a small massive list of features, requested for the project.

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The Apricot project has started! The Blender Institute's second Open Content project, a game collaboration with the Crystal Space game engine, was started last week. The team, with members from Poland, Canada, Spain, Australia, USA and Germany gathered for their first workshops.

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Apricot is edging towards the start of the project sometime next week. They are pushing towards a goal of 1000 DVD's sold. They are at 500+ now. And come next week your name will not be credited on the DVD. Don't miss the chance to be eternally famous! Or even better, don't miss the chance to support Blender development. Want faster realtime previews? Improved export? An external plugin interface? Help support the project because those are some of the things being looked at for improvement by the Apricot team.

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There is a great review on the Apricot blog of a recent workshop that took place discussing the status and plans for the production. Continue Reading 'Apricot Pre-production review workshop' »