I would like to present the experience and work of International Team working together, all 19 members for the first time on creating a short film which will be sent out to different festivals around the globe. Project Luke's Escape has Members from different countries, time-zone, cultures and languages. Along the way some of the prominent Blender artists have worked in the film, creating assets, free tutorials and upcoming Exclusive Luke's Escape Tutorial Series (Paid) by Oliver Villar Diz from Blendtuts.com. Main aim of this film is to make this short film using Blender 3D mostly, send it to various festivals and have something great to present to Blender Community in general. About Waqas Abdul Majeed Waqas is originally from Pakistan but born and raised in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Animation from SAE Dubai. He worked with 3D's Max during university and for a few more years until he came across Blender. He is on his way to open up his own animation studio in Dubai. At the moment Directing Luke's escape: a short film with an International Blender Team. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKYTL4g7R5E

Support the future of Blender https://fund.blender.org #b3d * Music by @Thaehan -- UI * show gizmo while transforming https://developer.blender.org/rB648350 * Support for showing candidates for string properties https://developer.blender.org/rB3f3d82 * Add file browser operator to edit directory field https://developer.blender.org/rB209bf7 * Add tooltips for the shader item https://developer.blender.org/D14878 * Use "bl_order" for UI child panels https://developer.blender.org/D15174 * Add initial "grid view" https://developer.blender.org/rB23d2e7 * NLA strip names overflow strip https://developer.blender.org/D14742 * Fix numbers jumping in edit voxel size widget https://developer.blender.org/rBf69c56 * Adds operator to duplicate the active color attribute layer https://developer.blender.org/rB9c28f0 * BLF: Fallback Font Stack https://developer.blender.org/D12622 * Keymap: use both left/right modifier keys https://developer.blender.org/rB3a8a44 CYCLES * Cycles: Add half precision float support for volumes with NanoVDB https://developer.blender.org/rBa8c81f * Cycles: Fix rendering of packed UDIM tiles with different sizes https://developer.blender.org/rB284a34 * Cycles/EEVEE: load 8 bit image textures as half float for some color spaces https://developer.blender.org/rB33f5e8 * Sculpt: PBVH Draw Support for EEVEE https://developer.blender.org/rB285a68 GEO NODES * new Volume Cube node https://developer.blender.org/D15198 * Instance Rotation Node https://developer.blender.org/D15131 * Add Instance Scale Input Node https://developer.blender.org/rB14fc89 * add 'Intersecting Edges' output for boolean node https://developer.blender.org/D15151 * speedup Separate XYZ node https://developer.blender.org/rBb8bd30 * Show supported types in geo socket tooltip https://developer.blender.org/D14802 * tweak Volume to Mesh threshold declaration https://developer.blender.org/rB75489b * Nodes: Show node description in Node add menu https://developer.blender.org/D14963 * Functions: speedup multi-function procedure executor https://developer.blender.org/rBd48735 * Asset Browser: Show "Current File" icon in sidebar source field https://developer.blender.org/rB9039fb GPENCIL * GPencil: Add support to name new layer when moving to layer https://developer.blender.org/D15092 * LineArt: Speedup construction of quad trees. https://developer.blender.org/rB432c4c LIB OVERRIDES * Add full support for camera's background images https://developer.blender.org/rB3437cf * Make 'image/movieclip user properties editable https://developer.blender.org/rBa3e728 * 3DView: simplification and improvements of override creation https://developer.blender.org/rBdce03e * VSE preview transform autokeying improvements https://developer.blender.org/rB9ccc21 * VSE: Make time operations self-contained https://developer.blender.org/D14990 * Color Management: add Filmic sRGB as an image colorspace https://developer.blender.org/rB2b80bf * Clip editor: Default to average error sort in dopesheet https://developer.blender.org/D15194 XR * XR: Fix controller flicker when switching action sets https://developer.blender.org/rB314e5c * CMake: optionally disable OBJ, STL & GPencil SVG support https://developer.blender.org/rB8edd1d * Py Docs: Update Sphinx and dependencies https://developer.blender.org/rB3cd283 PYTHON * Compositor: add pre/post/cancel handlers and background job info https://developer.blender.org/rB16d329 I/O * STL: Add new C++ based STL importer https://developer.blender.org/rB7c511f * OBJ: vertex colors support in importer and exporter https://developer.blender.org/rB1b4f35 * OBJ: Enable undo for experimental OBJ importer https://developer.blender.org/rBa30e67 * OBJ: Use filename as the default object name https://developer.blender.org/rB99847c * USD: Enable operator presets when exporting https://developer.blender.org/rB9bb7de * USD import: Handle material name collisions https://developer.blender.org/rBf6268f * USD: speed up large USD imports by not rebuilding material name map for each object https://developer.blender.org/rB5b5811 * IO: speed up large Alembic & USD imports by doing fewer collection syncs https://developer.blender.org/rB230f72 ADD-ONS * AE: export object hide_render as AE opacity https://developer.blender.org/rBAC3580 * AE: export multiple cameras when using markers https://developer.blender.org/rBAC61ef * AE: group images and solids into a folder https://developer.blender.org/rBAC97ff * glTF: use color attribute API instead of vertex color https://developer.blender.org/rBA485b4 FIXES * Outliner performance: Only expand sub-trees if needed https://developer.blender.org/rBafde12 CURVES * Add soft selection in sculpt mode https://developer.blender.org/rBa18308 * use uv coordinates to attach curves to mesh https://developer.blender.org/rB899ec8 * support adding keymap items for operators https://developer.blender.org/rBe90340 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxeLqgShH54