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The popular Blender clipping/.blend file storage service PasteAll.org now supports picture uploads!
Blender-aid helps manage Blender productions
30 Comments Published by Bart on October 28th, 2009 in Toolbox
Is your Blender production turning into a spiderweb of linked libraries? Blender-aid can help.
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LuxRender have released their new 0.6 version. Congratulations to everyone involved!
Aqsis team release Aqsis renderer 1.6.0
10 Comments Published by Bart on October 13th, 2009 in Toolbox
Aqsis, the 'Open source 3D rendering solution adhering to the RenderMan standard', have just released version 1.6.0.
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Blender++ is 'yet another batch renderer', but with one important difference: it's cross-platform and Windows, Linux and OSX builds are available.
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YafaRay 0.1.2 Development branch (experimental)
7 Comments Published by Bart on September 24th, 2009 in Toolbox
The first development version of YaraRay 0.1.2 has been published, with some new features and fixes.
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RC6 of the upcoming LuxRender version has been released.
MakeHuman new features: Auto Modeling, Hair
8 Comments Published by Bart on September 14th, 2009 in Toolbox
The latest version of MakeHuman, 1.0 alpha 3b, has two new interesting features: auto modeling (which can create derived or repaired faces from an original) and hair.
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Yafaray 0.1.1 Documentation Completed
4 Comments Published by Bart on September 13th, 2009 in Toolbox
The Yafaray community have completed the 0.1.1 documentation. This is not really news (they published it last July), but I want to mention it here for reference.
Blender+Ardour: A truly powerful combination
28 Comments Published by Bart on September 9th, 2009 in Toolbox
Ardour is an 'Open Source Digital Audio Workstation'. Juan Pablo Bouza explains how to hook it up to Blender.
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LoveTextures.com: Creative Commons Textures
10 Comments Published by Bart on September 2nd, 2009 in Toolbox
I ran into this texture site the other day. They currently have 205 textures, neatly categorized and all licensed under a CC-BY license. Maybe you'll find it useful. Enjoy!
The GIMP team have just released version 2.7. This version is a 'development' version, or a snapshot of the current version in their development tree. While it's not stable or final, it contains a lot of new goodness that may be useful to you.
Indigo (which recently went commercial) have released version 2.0 of their renderer.
RC5 of the upcoming LuxRender version has been released.
Did the latest releases make Blender any faster? It's time for an update – participate in the Blender Render Benchmark and find out!
RenderPal render management system updated, discount
12 Comments Published by Bart on July 29th, 2009 in Toolbox
RenderPal V2 is a professional Render Management System, dedicated to distributed rendering across large render farms. From the artist's workstation to the rendering machines, RenderPal V2 takes care of the entire rendering pipeline. It supports more than 25 renderers and compositing applications, including Maya, Mental Ray, XSI, 3D Studio MAX, Nuke, Cinema 4D, Shake, After Effects, Realflow, Lightwave and of course Blender.
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New Linux distro for artists: openArtist
92 Comments Published by Bart on June 22nd, 2009 in 3D News, Toolbox
OpenArtist is a new Linux distribution. It's based on Ubuntu but completely tricked out on graphics – and Blender software.
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Fast F12 by super3boy is a batch renderer for Blender jobs, which can come in handy if you have to render a set of files while away from your computer. It's Windows only, but I imagine the concept is easy enough to be implemented on other platforms as well.
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