Blender news from Twitter

A round-up of noteworthy Blender-related tweets.

Sad news

Matthieu Dupont informed us of sad news:

“Blenderheads from older times, I’m very sad to tell you that Jean-Luc Peurière, a.k.a. Lukep passed away. He took care of the Mac version of blender some years ago, and made several commits. We will miss this wonderful guy!”

Ton Roosendaal added that Jean-Luc also coded the first depsgraph, and helped lay out the foundation of Blender 2.5.

Render Burst

Gleb Alexandrov announced that the Render Burst add-on now supports Blender versions 2.81 and 2.82:

“Render Burst now supports 2.81 and 2.82. All bugs have been squashed. 🐞🐛💥
Feel free to download.

https://github.com/VertStretch/RenderBurst

p.s. New version with the multi-camera animation support is in works.”

Tissue tesselation speed boost

Alessandro Zomparelli, the developer of the powerful Tissue add-on, announced a publicly available improvement:

“Now Tessellation is much faster!
Still a work in progress, but you can test it:
https://github.com/alessandro-zomparelli/tissue/tree/b280-dev
Let me know how much faster it is for you!”