Blender

Blender development Guru, Brecht van Lommel,  has been busy working on new rendering goodies for the upcoming 2.5 release

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

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

The milestone release has reached the second Alpha stage and has many new exciting features and improvements that have been in development since 2007.

We could be seeing a new official Blender 2.5 release this week as it was mentioned in the weekly development meetings that a new testbuild should be made available.

Blender users Alfred and padfoot7726 have devised a cunning way too use Zbrush MatCaps within Blender!

Due to the recent improvements in the sculpting branch, Blender now has the ability to sculpt massive amounts of polygons.

Some very interesting new concept art has been released for the upcoming open movie Sintel.

The movie is being made as a catalyst to further improve and refine the tools within Blender 2.5 and increase its awareness to the 3d community.

Blenderguru.com have released a short but informative tutorial about using Blenders node system to create Depth of Field within a rendered scene.

The Blender Foundation has released the first official turntable of the lead character for the the forthcoming Durian project.

Chairman and Lead developer Ton Roosendaal has announced an updated development schedule for Blender over the next 11 months, in which he lays out the release of 5 beta's, the possible 2.6 release date, the Durian Premiere and much more.