Linux for Designers

Of course you can read through "Blender 3D: Noob to Pro", try out a lot of tutorials and watch detailed video tutorials for getting a pro in Blender - but you can study the step by step issues of "Bits of Blender" too

Those haven't seen it yet, today Big Buck Bunny has its internet premiere

I get it! Today my DVD copy of the Blender Open Movie Big Buck Bunny arrived! Whoohoo, i'm so happy about it. This evening i will celebrate the first view of the movie at home with my girlfriend and chips!

More then a year ago i wrote a post about the project CGSphere. Today i visited the website again and it is still amazing: During all the time new spheres where submitted every week. Now a huge collection of spheres are available. You can browse them by 3D software, month/ year, category and rating. Take a look its awesome!

The final of Blender 2.46 is very close but there are some todos on the list before releasing it. The 4th release candidate of Blender 2.46 is now available for download. Take a tour of the new features of Blender 2.46 in the Wiki or as a video too.
If you found any bug report it. The funny video of Chris explains you how to report bugs.

The last and final release candidate of Blender 2.46 is out now. Check out the new features of Blender 2.46 in the Wiki or as a video.
If you found any bug report it. Check out Chris funny video about how to report a bug.

Blenderstorm opened his doors for saving and rating ideas of the development of Blender. If you are a Blender user it is now up to you add your ideas or vote for your wishes

Nope, the final of 2.46 isn't out yet but there is a lot of other good news about Blender:
* The Blitz3D Toolset for Blender is available, Blitz3D is a toolkit for game creation.
* There is an interesting thread at Blenderartist.org about the Renderman exporter RibMosaic and it's teamplay with Pixie and Aqsis.
* Andrey Izrantsev has developed an Blender exporter for the VRay renderer too.
* Glenn Melenhorst, creative Director at Iloura, created a game using the Blender Game Engine:

The wait comes to an end, on April the 10th then secound open movie has its premiere in the Studio/K in Amsterdam. Read more about the premiere and the party at the Peach Movie Blog.

A first release of a SVG texture plugin for Blender is published. So you can map your Inkscape work directly on 3D objects in Blender. You can download the VecTex plugin at the Google code page. Like procedual textures all is 100% scalable - that means no more oversized textures for logo types and typos. It is a first public release so it's not 100% bug free.
Check out the demo video:
More about the VecTex 0.9 plugin can be read at Blenderartists.org.