This is the 2.8 Splash Screen!

Bart · July 10, 2019

With the imminent release of the 'Release Candidate' of Blender 2.8 tomorrow, the Blender Foundation has already released a small teaser: the Splash!

You can download the .blend for this image from the Blender Cloud.

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

15 responses

Michael Birnbaum

10 July 2019 at 23:32

Cool Splash Screen! Thank you Bart Veldhuizen, for all of your hard work and dedication to Blender and BlenderNation! We Salute You!

Claudio Andres

11 July 2019 at 00:44

Fantastic

Gustavo Pabon

11 July 2019 at 05:33

looking forward to this. very excited. :)

Gustavo Pabon

11 July 2019 at 05:34

Yes! Thank goodness for blender3d!

Ian Cruickshank

11 July 2019 at 05:56

You have to subscribe to the cloud in order to get the scene, yes? I haven’t played with 2.8 yet but am really looking forward to when I have time to.

Bart
11 July 2019 at 07:44
No, this file is free. It would have taken you less time to just try the link ;-)
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1. Ian Cruickshank
  11 July 2019 at 17:02
  Good to know it’s not okay to ask questions here.
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stevfr

11 July 2019 at 11:41

Fantastic !

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11 July 2019 at 17:48

At the risk of being shot down, I think this is a poor choice of splash screen for this momentous new release of Blender. Yet again, it says all Blender is good for is making children’s cartoons, like nothing has changed since Big Buck Bunny. The splash screen should show aspects of 3D and 2D character animation, architecture, hard body modelling, physics, rigging, Eevee, product visualization… This splash screen is a complete turn-off for anyone coming to Blender who wants to use it for technical purposes.

butthead
11 July 2019 at 18:17
I feel like you are overthinking this…
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1. vollstock
  11 July 2019 at 18:43
  And yet, I kind of agree.
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  1. tynaud
    12 July 2019 at 14:18
    I don’t like it neither : the composition of the image seems off and the pose and silhouette of the girl too, and boring. Agent 327 splash was much better imo. I hope the splash will be changed for final version.
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Sam
25 July 2019 at 18:22
This is just for the RC.
Wait until we see the official release.
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1. Bart
  25 July 2019 at 20:21
  I believe this IS the final splash. The whole idea of a release candidate is that if no show stopping issues are found, the RC becomes the release. So that’s without making any changes to it and that includes another splash screen.
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