The Blender Foundation has published the initial outline of the Blender Network project in a discussion document. With the Blender community and it’s users maturing rapidly, there’s a huge demand for professional services like training, coding support and 3d design. The Blender Network aims to provide a marketplace for these activities.
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Blenderheads, rejoice! After a brief detour as a developer for Octane Renderer, Brecht van Lommel has decided to return to the Blender Foundation to work on Blender development.
He has already started working on a complete overhaul of Blender’s internal renderer. He comments:
There is also the problem that the internal render engine is showing its age. Before and during the Sintel project, I have worked on refactoring and improving it, but found it simply too hard to get it where I think a modern render engine should be.
The preliminary work is nothing short of amazing (did we expect otherwise from him?). Watch and drool:
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Sintel has been selected by the Seattle International Film Festival. If all goes well, it’ll be displayed in digital 4K. Congratulations, team!
Are you curious about the kind of traffic that the Blender.org website gets? The Blender Foundation have just published a summary of the last 12 months.
PowerDNS, the Domain Name Service that hosts the Blender.org domain, is currently under a DoS attack. As a result, all Blender Foundation domains are unreachable at the moment. For up to date information, see @PowerDNS_Bert.
Update: Blender.org is back again!
These DVDs are a great educational resource for all blender users wishing to advance in the industry or simply improve their skill-set. All purchasers will also be supporting the Blender Open Projects as DVD revenues are used to support current and future Open Blender projects.
Blender.org could do with a new fresh header graphic. Ton Roosendaal is calling all Blender artists to take a stab at it.
The Blender Foundation is going to be at FMX 2011 in Stuttgart from May 3rd to May 6th 2011. They’ll be showcasing blender 2.5 and the open movie projects to conference goers. Along with Ton, who will be there for the duration of the conference, various other blender users including Thomas Dinges, Sebastian Koenig, Gottfried Hofman and Tobias Kummer will be demoing blender.
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Durian team member Ben Dansie has published a reworked Sintel character that’s a *LOT* smaller (in filesize), and should be much easier to work with.
