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Blender-aid is a tool that helps you manage Blender productions. Blender focuses on the creation of content. Blender-aid focuses on managing the content of a production. The new version adds support for fixing missing links, and offers a speed-up.

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The processors of modern videocards (GPU’s – Graphical Processing Units) are SO powerful, that they’re much faster at rendering than CPUs. Here are the first results of a test project that introduces GPU rendering in LuxRender. If they pull this off, it promises an incredible speedup!

The frames in the following sample only took seconds to render:

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Indigo Renderer 2.2 Released

Indigo (a commercial render with a Blender export script) has received an upgrade that claims to speed up renderings with 100%.

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LuxRender v0.6.1 is out

LuxRender v0.6.1 contains a handfull of fixes. The team have also committed to more frequent updates.

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squary-polygonSquare Polygon is a new question and answer site for 3d and visualisation professionals.

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Blender++ 1.2 released

screenshot-blender-1-216x300Blender++ is a cross-platform network render manager for Blender.

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Turn your webcam into a 3D scanner

web_cam_3d_scannerSeveral people reported this: Cambridge University Qi Pan is developing software that will reconstruct textured 3D models from webcam video. A Linux and later a Windows downloadable demo should be available in a couple of months. The results are already quite amazing – check out the video inside.

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Inkscape 0.47 Released

inkscape2.jpgInkscape 0.47 has been released, and it has an *insane* amount of new/improved features. Cool job, guys!

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blender-to-after-effectsHere’s a script that exports Blender animation information to Adobe After Effects. It comes with a videotutorial.

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Open Source Normal Map Generator

400_ssbump_CUDASSbump is an open source normal map generator.

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