Support the future of Blender https://fund.blender.org #b3d * Music by @Thaehan -- BLENDER TODAY #198 COMMUNITY * Blender Conference ticket sale! https://conference.blender.org/2022/ * Blender 3.2.1 release this week, for real WHAT'S NEW GEOMETRY NODES * Geometry Nodes: Add Mesh To Volume Node https://developer.blender.org/rB1516f7 * Geometry Nodes: UV Unwrap and Pack Islands Nodes https://developer.blender.org/rB4593fb * https://twitter.com/amalbubble/status/1543929220917006336 MODELING * UV: Improve UV Straighten operator https://developer.blender.org/rB9dd27a * Transform Snap: nearest face snap mode, snapping options, refactoring https://developer.blender.org/rB011327 GREASE PENCIL / LINE ART * LineArt: Shadow and related functionalities https://developer.blender.org/rB6dd8ce MOTION TRACKING * Tracking: Image from Plane Marker operators https://developer.blender.org/rBe4bf58 * Mask editor: Always use smooth drawing https://developer.blender.org/rBc1ffea CYCLES * Cycles: Add support for rendering on Intel GPUs using oneAPI https://developer.blender.org/rBa02992 * Cycles: enable Vega GPU/APU support https://developer.blender.org/rBabfa09 USER INTERFACE * UI: add Custom properties panel to collections https://developer.blender.org/rBb91011 * UI: add tooltips for nodes to the shader node add menu https://developer.blender.org/D15309 VSE * VSE: Improved Retiming system https://developer.blender.org/rB302b04 * FFmpeg: Add VFR media support https://developer.blender.org/rBf0a3d2 CURVES * Curves: New tools for curves sculpt mode https://developer.blender.org/rB416aef * Sculpt Curves: UI tweaks and shortcut https://developer.blender.org/rB3ffc55 I/O * COLLADA: Support for alpha color in vertex data https://developer.blender.org/rB106d93 * IO: print import & export times of Alembic & USD https://developer.blender.org/rBe7a212 POTPOURRI * Benchmark: Add EEVEE viewport playback tests https://developer.blender.org/rB66f826 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDI8fE2Keis

Help making an open animation movie! http://cloud.blender.org/gooseberry/ Writer Esther Wouda and director Mathieu Auvray meet in a Paris Laundromat to discuss the writing process of the Gooseberry ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E12U1GrngvM

"VFX Work for Award-Winning Movies" by Monica Galantucci, Nicolas D'Amore, Andrea Boccia, Andrea Battistoni Blender Conference 2023 2023-10-27 11:30 at the Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, studio. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIYTpqO-TUM

Elephants Dream premiered exactly 10 years ago, on March 24th 2006 in an Amsterdam cinema, with a memorable afterparty in the nightclub "Blender". Since then Blender Institute produced Big Buck Bunny, Yo Frankie, Sintel, Tears of Steel, Caminandes Gran Dillama, Cosmos Laundromat, Glass Half and Caminandes Llamigos. Each of these now is a landmark of Free Culture and each has helped to make Blender become the world's most popular free/open source 3D creation tool. This short clip is a remake of the "elevator platform scene". We used the original models and animation and combined it with the latest render options of Blender. Even though we admit it looks quite weird, we as the makers are still tremendously proud of the achievement! Watch the original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLkA0RELQ1g The Orange Open Movie team: Director: Bassam Kurdali Artists: Andy Goralczyk, Bastian Salmela, Lee Salvemini, Matt Ebb. TD: Toni Alatalo Music: Jan Morgenstern Voices: Tygo Gernandt, Cas Jansen Production: Ton Roosendaal Re-rendered version by Andy Goralczyk. Files and all the sources available on http://blender.cloud ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPdv44HtEoA