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At Saturday was officially announced Blender 2.59 release. This is the third stable release of the Blender 2.5 series, representing the culmination of many years of redesign, development and stabilizing work. This release contains the 1000s of fixes and feature updates since the 2.5 beta versions were published. So the Blender Foundation can be proud of it. 

Autodesk, the leader in 3D technology and the maker of 3DsMax and Maya got five-year exclusive license for Disney’s Xgen Arbitrary Primitive Generator technology which was used by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The technology for Xgen was presented back in 2003 at Siggraph in a white paper by Walt Disney for creation of generated fur, feathers, and foliage. From that time the technology was used in several Disney’s animation like Tangled, Toy Story 3 and others for simulating foliage, flowers, grass and trees.

Jama Jurabaev published on 3DTotal his new making of called „The Beast“, illustration made in Photoshop. In this step by step tutorial he detail explained workflow. Also he shows some his preferences and tips such as why he works with the silhouettes or how he sets up a composition of whole picture or what he adds in post-production to do picture more realistic. 

Portal Blenderguru brings again helpful tip for blender users. There is a video tutorial, where is explained how to create realistic ice. In this 45 minutes tutorial you will discover how to quickly add imperfections using displacements, an easy way to add air bubbles and how to create realistic ice material. Due to the complexity of refractions and and relections of ice, it generally renders better using unbiased rendering engines (like LuxRender or Cycles).