Interview: François Beaune on Appleseed Renderer

François Beaune is the project founder and team leader of Appleseed, which is a render engine that is completely open source like Cycles or Luxrender. Appleseed is MIT-Licensed, which is probably the most liberal license in existance. It is availabe for Maya, Blender, Gaffer and other programs.



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It´s good to know about the volume rendering implementation.
I hope it will work faster than Cycles Volume rendering.

exciting to hear him talking about tighter intergration into Blender (I do realize this is probably not going to be done quickly), and will be interesting to try out their SSS-implementation.

Appleseed has a lot of potential but it is still young and I hope they do get a chance to work on the Blender integration. What’s there right now is decent, but it’s over a year old and can’t access most of the newer options.

Gaffer would be a nice alternative, but so far I haven’t found a way to export animations and objects so Gaffer can use them. If only the Blender devs weren’t waffling so bad on Alembic…