Sorry for the long delay in posting. Been quite busy lately (real life and trying to make ends meet – poor developer here ). Anyways, there’s a new WIP render of the Sintel Open Movie by the Blender Foundation. Remember it’s a work in progress (some bugs in blender build causing some problems in the render).

Anyways, here’s a youtube video of the wip:

Also, two weeks ago, a trailer of the Sintel movie came out:

All in all, it’s an impressive feat for the Blender team considering they are both working on the movie, plus working on improving blender as well!

And here is what you windows guys are waiting for – an installer for the blender 2.5 alpha 2 svn build date 5-28-2010.

Get your windows blender installer build at the ostalks ibiblio mirror now.

Since I’m following Durian open movie project updates, I’m pretty excited what’s in store for 2.5, namely:

• Updated GUI – the significance of this is that it is completely customizeable, with Python scripting.  Also an overhaul of the GUI has made it better organized and easier to navigate.
• Custom Keyboard Shortcuts – I have to admit, using Blender in the past sometimes overwhelms me due to the number of keyboard shortcuts. At least with this, I can assign keys which would be easier to remember.
• A new Tool System and Data Access architecture.
• 64 Bit versions are now available for OSX
• Almost everything is now animateable.
• Nice additions to the physics engine such as smoke simulation and particle systems.
• Rendering Improvements and Additions

It is really catching up to commercial software, as it is, and it’s also a small package too (Just 18Mb)!

Look to the blender site for the release logs and the downloads.