Last week I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part five: Enrico Valenza, Lead Artist.

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Last week I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part four: Sacha Goedegebure, Peach Director.

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Last week I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part three: William Reynish, Peach Lead Artist.

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Last week I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part two: Nathan Vegdahl, Peach Lead Artist.

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Last week I visited the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, where I had a chance to talk to the members of the Peach team (and a member of Apricot as well!). I taped my conversations with them and for the next week, we'll publish one interview each day. Today part one: Ton Roosendaal, Producer for the Blender Institute.

Update: video replaced by Bmud's subtitled version (click the 'up' button in the lower right corner to activate the subtitles)

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It looks like I'll be spending next Friday at the Blender Institute in Amsterdam! I'll have time to see how everyone is doing, taste the atmosphere in the team and see the current state of the project. I'm also going to do short interviews with the team members and YOU can tell me what to ask them!

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On the Peach blog, Brecht introduced a new method of Ambient Occlusion called Approximate Ambient Occlusion. At the time of the post it was not available in the SVN, so in turn not available for use by the masses. But that has changed you can now find builds on graphicall.

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Sacha recently wrote an amusing post on the Peach blog. Written as a 'letter' for his mother, its a great read. Sacha even introduces a new and amusing Peach character.

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Discovered by Len at Blenderartists. See post here. It seems some new things have been periodically posted in the Peach Media Gallery.

Update??: I don't recall seeing these. Little .ogg videos of some animation tests. Its possible these aren't new, but even if there aren't, someone could have missed them.

Please keep in mind Sago has clarified that this test is an early try and doesn't represent the current state.

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The most recent Peach blog post brings some great news to the Peach team. The team has been staring with wide eyes at the approaching headlights of the deadline. Many things have slowed the progress of animating. So the dream team comes in. Peach has hired some old faces to help out.

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Dahna McConnachie of Computerworld Australia interviewed artist (and developer) Matt Ebb about Elephants Dream the and process of creating an open movie.

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Get an "outsider's" perspective on a week in the life of the Peach project.

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Fluff up your desktop image with these super "bunny-sized" renders of the completed Peach characters!

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Some great work by Andy is now visible on the Peach blog. The focus of the post there is on the strand renderer and particle system. The article goes into a good amount of detail describing the process of setting things up. An enjoyable read.

Note: Do to site outages and a few individuals having problems with the .ogg file format I've mirrored smaller videos on google video for those interested.
Find them here:
Fur in OpenGL.
Fur in Final Render.

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