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Blender 2.41 Released
Blender 2.41 is out! And if you thought that this was 'just' a bugfix release…
Yafray hack: Accelerated Photon Map Rendering
RCRuiz has posted a hack that speeds up Photon Map rendering in Yafray a great…
Ton Comments on Orange Progress
Ton has posted some comments on the progress of the Orange movie project on the…
Sunflow Global Illumination Rendering System
Sunflow is an Open Source Global Illumination rendering system written in Java. A new version…
Tutorial: Animating Realistic Water Surfaces
This has nothing to do with yesterday's article about the new fluid system in Blender.…
Fluid Simulation in Blender
As of version 2.40, Blender has an integrated Fluid simulator. It is the result of…
The Butterfly Effect
I don't know where he gets both the energy and the inspiration, but after working…
Creating Normal Maps
If you're working with the game engine or you have another reason to use low…
Orange in the Press
The Orange site features an article on their recent media coverage. Considering the fact that…
Blenderart #2 Released
Blenderart Magazine #2 is out and once again it is packed with Blender goodness. It…
CGTalk Lighting Challenge
If you would like to work on your lighting and texturing skills then check out…
Blender Quickstart Guide
The Docboard team have published a very useful 'Blender Quickstart Guide': everything you need to…
Tutorial: Cloud Creation
Colin Litster has posted a tutorial on faking really nice looking volumetric clouds on his…
Blender.org Gallery Updated: December 2005
It was long overdue, but I have finally managed to put the December 2005 gallery…
Blender Render Engine Rewrite for Orange
Ton is planning a rather large code rewrite of Blender's render engine. Apart from cleaning…
Blender, Orange branch
Zupermonkey posted a Blender testbuild of the Orange development branch of Blender. While the Orange…
Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Alias
Autodesk, creator of 3ds Max, has acquired Alias, the creator of Maya: On January 10,…
Tutorial: Linear Workflow with YafRay
One of the things Ton has been trying to explain to me time and time…
OS X 10.4.4 update
A few days ago I reported that using Blender 2.40 was problematic on Macs with…
Orange Production Diaries in 3D World Magazine
The February 2006 edition of 3D World features an article about Open Source graphics and…