Guys, I'm sorry for any inconvenience for these two three days my site went offilne. There was fire in the datacenter that hosts my website, and it seems it was pretty big.

Also this weekend there was fire at Universal Studios. There wasn't human victims, but maybe some movie rarities were lost.

Blender 2.46 was relesead just a few days ago, but there are already cool new features that will be on the next release. =)

Matt Ebb, a.k.a Broken on user forums, keeps bringing cool new additions to Blender. Some days ago we got the news that he programmed image based lighting into the renderer, and we all can use his famous blurry reflections/refractions with Blender 2.46. Now he had just added to the internal renderer the ability to reproduce  cromatic dispersion.

Besides that, he told us that Blender soon will also have an ocean simulator. The studio where he works needed this feature for a short film, so a programmer was paid to create this simulator. This code will be donated to the main Blender code and, hopefully, will be in the next version.

Cool, huh? =)

Big Buck Bunny, the second open movie from Blender Foundation is now officially online. =)

I say officially because the movie has been on YouTube and Vimeo for a while, since some people who bought the DVD uploaded it. This is totally normal and legal, since the movie is licensed by Creative Commons.

But only now you can download it in full HD and also all production files.

Just a quick post for today... =)

There is a cool interview with ilustrator and character designer Peter De Sève.

What did he do so special? Well... a lot of things. Really. ;)

I think one can never recommend enough to everyone stop by John Kricfalusi's blog. Maybe he is a little too radical sometimes, but there is no doubt he knows what he is talking about.

This time there is a post (long as usual) about scene composition, backgrounds and visual hierarchy.

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As a side note, I'll be at Universidade Salgado de Oliveira giving a lecture on Blender tonight. If you happen to be there, go there and say hi. =)

And it is totally confirmed the short Blender course on Friday at Free Software Forum. I'm glad to say that all positions were filled some days ago. =)