I was pretty excited about this, so I had to post the new version of 2.5. It now has a splash screen with a cool picture of Sintel from Project Durian. Go check it out for yourself with the new version.

Also: I was just informed that emulate numpad is back in the latest revision for all you notebook users (myself included).

The downloads section has been updated with the current versions of 2.5 for everyone to download and enjoy.

Our weekly revision of our Linux and Mac Blender 2.5 builds are up. We ran into some issues with the Windows 7 version, so we will have to wait on that, as we have other modeling priorities to work on. But go ahead and enjoy the current builds we have up in the downloads section.

We now have Blender 2.5 builds in our downloads page for OSX 10.6.1 and Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.10. We will be updating the builds periodically and blogging those updates here. A Windows 7 version will be up soon, hopefully.

For those of us who weren’t at Siggraph (sadly), the Tube trailer was shown at the Blender booth. It wasn’t completely finished, as that is what we are doing right now. Hopefully we’ll have it up and online very soon. But in the meantime, here are a few screens from the trailer. Enjoy!

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