Software

Durian/Sintel concept artist David Revoy and the Blender Foundation have decided to publish the 3rd chapter of  ‘Chaos and Evolutions’ - Digital Painting Course Using Free/Open Source Software, for free on YouTube for everyone to enjoy!

What generous people!

EPHERE has announced that Zookeeper 1.3 for 3ds max has been released!

The brilliant scene management plugin has been updated to include numerous feature additions and improvements!

A selection of plugins for the dedicated UV unwrapping application Ultimate Unwrap3D Pro have now been updated.

 A new release with an awesome feature set!!  http://area.autodesk.com/3dsmax2011

Here are some of the new features:

Slate Material Editor

Quicksilver Hardware Renderer

Local Edits to Containers

Modeling and Texturing Enhancements

Viewport Display of 3ds Max Materials

3ds Max Composite

In-Context Direct Manipulation UI

CAT Integration

Ribbon Customization

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Updated OpenEXR Image IO Plug-in

Save to Previous Release

Windows 7 Support

Laurens Corijns multi-part mammoth tutorial for our friends over at CGTuts+ has now been updated with Part 4!

The whole tutorial goes over creating a HotRod in 3dsMax, Baking textures and texturing in Photoshop, with some great results!

Campbell Barton, Technical Director of Durain/Sintel and long time Blender Dev., has implemented ZApplink like image re-projection for Blender 2.5.

Fraps 3.1.2 has been released!

A minor update to the benchmarking/screen recording software has now been released with a few bug fixes.

The Blender Foundation have announced that the third official Alpha release of Blender 2.5 has been made available for download  today.

The release fixes a bad bug that was inadvertently introduced into Blender 2.5 Alpha 1

Ronen Bekerman has published a great tutorial on his blog about adding hair and fur to objects using Max’s Hair & Fur modifier.

Artist Jason7 has posted a fantastic demo of the new Indirect Lighting features that were recently released with Blender 2.51 Alpha.