Blender Nation has published an interesting interview with the director of Elephants Dream first open short movie. In this interview he explain his point of view about future of Blender and implementation of Open Source software in the proffesional production pipeline.
Full text here: http://www.blendernation.com
Finally the new official version of Blender was released. With tons of new features Blender development community proved the professional level of this software suite. Review of the new features and video demos can be found here.
Happy blending ….
Kitsu (also known as Kitsune) won the latest modeling challenge “Tentacles” on the well-known subdivisionmodeling.com forums. In his entry, he utilized Blender’s new sculpting feature very well, giving the finished model a great level of detail.
- Well done Kitsu!
Go to the Tentacles winner announcement thread to see Kitsu’s entry.
Additionally, take a look at Kitsu’s work in progress thread.
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supportsCreative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
Inkscape’s main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development
This release brings the exciting new features developed by the Google Summer of Code 2006 participants, as well as tons of other improvements across the board. Most notably is the new Gaussian Blur feature, which allow softly and naturally blurring Inkscape objects like path, shapes, groups, text, and images. Gaussian blur enables a wide range of photorealistic effects: arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop shadows, glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for other objects to achieve the “feathered mask” effect.
For more information, please see the Inkscape 0.45 Release Notes.
Inkscape 0.45 is now officially released and available for download.
