Ton just posted the following dates on the Peach blog: May 17 or 18: Release of Blender 2.46 May 20th: DVD Arrival, shipping May 30 or 31: Internet release of Big Buck Bunny

The dvd gold masters were sent in time to the printer, with as aim the may 15 release. Of course the day after we sent the discs some errors were detected…  like stereo sound in the ntsc movie, where 5.1 was more appropriate! New gold masters were sent, but it means that the printer needs [...]

If you always wanted to know, what was going on at the Blender development commits, now you can! A really cool script now listens to the commit logs! Here is a description of the system by Nathan...

Sterling Roth [mexicoxican] started a challenge over at Blender Artists: what can you make with just 10 cuboid shapes? This very limiting rule is opening up a *lot* of creativity. The rules are...

What can you do to make Happy Blender Institute much more happier ? You would order a cake for us ! An Apricot cake. Today one person from Blender’s community surprised us with apricot and rise cakes ! Thanks a lot ! Really appreciate What community can do for us except coffee machine [...]

We’re doing the last bits on the dvd set… encoding and authoring a video DVD and collecting and testing all files for the DVD-ROM is just a bit too much work to be really fun… especially for people suffering post-BBB fatigue! :) Even after about 6-8 manweeks of work on this DVD we could easily [...]

Currently we're testing the final builds for 2.46. Some bugfixing is in progress but we're close...

I’ll be at Libre Graphics Meeting in Wrocław/Poland (Thursday 08th May - Sunday 11th May). This is third edition of this event where people interested about free graphic tools like for example Gimp, Scribus, Krita, Inkscape and ofcourse Blender can meet together. You can expect Blender workshop also Apricot and Peach presentation. Apricot presentation will be [...]

If you want to help Apricot and are not afraid of Crystal Space, C++ code, and in particular Crystal Space’s C++ code - take a look at the Development page, I slightly expanded the Crystal Space section.

The day after the BBB premiere Ton was a member of a panel at a conference called ‘Economies of the Commons’, where topics as ‘financing open source and open content projects’ were discussed. Before the panel started Ton gave a presentation during which he also showed material from BBB. During the panel discussion there was [...]

Today the 2nd Blender open movie project premieres in Amsterdam.

You can download and test the candidate for 2.46 now. Use the link above for download links and...