Terry Wallwork reviews 'Bounce, Tumble, and Splash!: Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D' Tony Mullen's been at it again releasing another Blender book this time on using...

Update: after trying this feature for only a couple of hours, it was already turning into a big mess. I found it impossible to follow the discussions or to easily see what the latest comment was, the...

Blender was awarded one of the "Best of open source productivity apps" by InfoWorld.com "Blender is a consummate example of the influence and opportunity for open...

As usual, we will thank the the early dvd-pre-sale sponsors with a prominent credit. There will be a special section on the DVD, but also in the game itself! On the link below you can find the dvd pre-sale sponsors, who have ordered and paid before we started in February (but we’ve been flexible a bit!). http://www.yofrankie.org/?page_id=316 Please [...]

As an bug-fix update for the 2.46 release, we've now released 2.47, which is the stable version for...

Siggraph is over again, and it was a memorable week! Read about our adventures in Los Angeles and...

Friday August 8th: Disney visit Thanks to our good friend & animation consultant & trainer Arno Kroner we had a great afternoon at the Disney Animation studios; the original place were animation got about invented (well, perfected :)! There was a screening arranged in the main viewing room, and quickly after 12 PM the room quickly filled [...]

One of our three servers was hanging a lot the past days. It appeared to be faulty memory, which...

Here are the latest environment shots from the island and the lava levels, with shadow maps(shadows+ao), and props all around like grass that’s the wrong color green, flowers, mushrooms, logs, etc.. There are things that still need to be finished, like fx(note the lava platforms are supported now!), water, lighting, sky, and animated WATER. Make [...]

So.. the project is coming to an end. Today is 10th, Chris’ flight is August 30th, and mine is 31th, that makes 20 days of work from now, we made a daily schedule till the very last day. With the time we have from now, we managed to split it in a way we could [...]

It’s SIGGRAPH week (10-15 august)! We’ve managed to get BBB screenings + peach team presentations in the theatres of three exciting Hollywood studios: Disney Feature Animation (friday) Dreamworks Animation (tuesday) Rhythm & Hues studios (wednesday) This on top of our schedule already: Sunday: Siggraph Sandbox demos, 6-8 PM Monday, three BOFs 2-6 PM Tuesday-Thursday: demos on HP booth Wednesday 8.30 PM: BBB screening and [...]

Our good friend from Torino, Gianluca “Kino3d” Faletti, has sent us a 250 GB disk, which we’ve copied our Peach studio backup on. Browse everything online here: http://blender-mirror.kino3d.org/peach/ Note that you can get here the original 4 x 16 bits OpenExr files too, straight from the renderfarm. Console-savy people will want to use wget -r (recursive) to [...]