Blender Modernizing Rendering
Blender has been a great 3d suite and it is better now with its 2.5x releases. What does it take to be better in the 3d scene? Portability, python api extensibility, and much much better user experience. Do we still need more from these? Yes, brecht is doing an awesome thing on renderer side. So awesome that I want to work again with blender, :((. See video below and let your mouth drool.
via Blender Developer Blog - Brecht
I do think there’s still a place for a “small studio” production render engine, that sits between a render engine with a focus on complete realism, and a totally programmable and customizable Renderman style engine. Over the past months, I’ve been working on a new engine called (codename Cycles), that I hope will fit that space. Here’s a sneak peek:
