Blender 2.5 Alpha 1 Released

The Blender Foundation has just released Blender 2.5 Alpha 1, the second official testing release of the Blender 2.5 series.  The list of improvements and new features is far too extensive for me to cover here, but some of the highlights include:

• The Sculpting system has been improved, Thanks to the Durian Open Movie project
  
• RAM usage has been improved
  
• New “Solidify” Modifier
  
• Improved workflow for Brush Textures
  
• Improved Keymap Editor
  
• “Rigify” Rigging System so go check it out and download it and help out with bugfixes and improvements.

Head on over to the Blender.org site and download it, and help them out with bugfixes and improvements.

blender.org – Blender 2.5.1.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .