Blender 2.8 Workflow Workshop Video
Here is a little video documentary of the Blender 2.8 Workflow Workshop that took place in Amsterdam between 25 and 27 November 2016. It’s great to see that after a few months since that meeting Blender 2.8 development is picking up quite some speed!
Eevee Roadmap
In the last post about the Viewport Plan of Action we ended briefly covering the upcoming realtime engine of Blender 2.8, nicknamed Eevee. Eevee will follow the (game) industry PBR (Physically Based Rendering) trend, supporting high-end graphics coupled with a responsive realtime viewport. Sci-fi armor by Andy Goralczyk –...
Improving Alembic support in 2.79 and 2.8
Blender 2.78 saw basic Alembic support for both import and export. The initial patch was provided by DwarfLabs, and was then integrated into Blender by Kévin Dietrich. For the previous month, I (Sybren) have been working on bringing Alembic to the next level, and that...
Dependency graph proposal
This post is all about dependency graph design for the Blender 2.8 project.
Viewport Project – Plan of Action
December, the time of the year for hot chocolate mugs, bright decoration lights and, of course, development roadmap. In the spirit of the season, the following document is the plan of action for the viewport project in Blender 2.8. Throughout 2017 we are expecting to...
The Blender 101 Project and You!
What and Why? With the upcoming 2.8, Blender is going to be an amazing tool for artists. However, not everyone is a professional working in a studio environment. Many are casual users. Some use Blender just for 3D printing, some to make models for games,...
Highlights of Workflow Workshop
Blender Institute had 3 days of coder/artist workshops on 2.8 designs and targets. Having 12 brains going over all aspects of usability and technical concepts has been extremely useful. The team is gathering all notes and designs currently and will make extensive reports for everyone...
Blender 2.8 project status
The main topic of my Blender Conference 2016 keynote was the Blender 2.8 project; where are are and what to expect from it in the coming year. The biggest news is that we are really going to start working on it, with more developers than ever –...
Layers and Beyond
Disclaimer This document was built on top of the development and research lead by Julian Eisel (Severin) as part of the Google Summer of Code 2016. This proposal is a usability amendment to his design with the viewport project in sight. See the original documentation...
The Collada Case
This is a story about Collada, its current status and what we possibly can do in the future. Where we are The current implementation of the Blender Collada module is based on the OpenCollada C++ Library. OpenCollada’s goal is to fully implement the Collada standard....
Asset management and Pipeline
Here is a quick report/summary of work and discussions about Data-block handling, Assets management and Pipeline, that happened at the Blender Institute during my four days stay in Amsterdam, in September 2016. Reconfirmed Principles Maybe the most important point is the clear separation between low-level...
Blender 2.8 Viewport Development
Introduction Blender 2.8 original design brought to the conversation a workflow-based usability mantra. Within those constraints we went over the ideal pipeline for a few well defined workflows. Here is an excerpt from a recent viewport development design document which is still valid for this...
