Blender News

Interviews

André Holzmeister interview

CGArena has posted an interesting interview with Brazilian artist André Holzmeister, head of CG at Iceland 2nd Nation / CUBOCC. More at CGArena.

| Posted Fri May 4, 2012

Reels

Delicate Machines' reel 2012

An impressive reel by Delicate Machines, the studio co-founded by Joël LeLièvre and Jon Mitchell. Watch it on Vimeo.

| Posted Thu May 3, 2012

Software

GIMP 2.8 released

After 3.5 years of development a major new version of the open source graphics software has been released, with many new features. Highlights include: (more...)

| Posted Thu May 3, 2012

Interviews

BioWare character artists on Mass Effect 3

Pixologic has posted a great interview with BioWare character artists Rodrigue Pralier, Herbert Lowis, Rafael Grassetti and Rion Swanson on their work on Mass Effect 3, the final chapter in the Mass Effect trilogy of video games. Read it on Pixologic's website. (Disclaimer: expect direct questions aimed at highlighting ZBrush's capabilities)

| Posted Wed May 2, 2012

Reels

Jonatan Catalán's lighting & shading reel 2012

Talented Spanish artist and Keytoon co-founder Jonatan Catalán Navarrete has posted online his latest reel. Watch it on Vimeo.

| Posted Wed May 2, 2012 | source: Jonatan Catalán Navarrete

Reels

Jakub Goda's Showreel 2012

Slovak artist Jakub Goda has posted online his latest reel. Watch it on Vimeo.

| Posted Tue May 1, 2012

Software

Sweet Home 3D 3.5

New features in the latest version of ETek's open source interior design application include: additional options and behaviors to align furniture, new dialog box to edit virtual visitor coordinates, UI enhancements, etc. More at Sweet Home 3D's website.

| Posted Tue May 1, 2012

After Effects Plugins

ProEXR 1.7 Released

Fnord software makers of ProEXR, have released version 1.7 of their popular EXR reader plugin for Photoshop and After Effects. This new release includes support for EXRs in Adobe Premiere, speed improvements in After Effects, and newly added support for V-Ray's VRimg format. You can read the full details on the Fnord software blog.

Comments (1) | Posted Mon Apr 30, 2012

Software

Hiero for Windows beta now available

Any Windows users looking to try out Hiero from The Foundry can now do so with the beta release of Hiero for Windows 7. Hiero is a desktop application for collaborative VFX workflow developed by The Foundry, makers of both Nuke and Mari. You can download the beta from The Foundry's website.

| Posted Mon Apr 30, 2012

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