Mayaseed 0.1.4 Released

Jon just released Mayaseed 0.1.4, a complete rewrite of his Maya-to-appleseed translator. Check out the announcement on his new blog for the release notes and the download link.

Blenderseed 1.1.4 Released

We just released Blenderseed 1.1.4. This is a minor release fixing translation of transparent/refractive materials and export of dupli objects.

You can download Blenderseed 1.1.4 by right-clicking here and saving the file to disk.

appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-11 Released

We just released appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-11. This is a minor release featuring improved display during progressive rendering and a few important bug fixes.

Check the release notes for the full list of changes. Read more...

Stuff Keeps Coming!

We decided it was time to get the conversation started so Jon, now the "voice" of appleseed, plugged his mic and made a couple of screencasts covering the basics of appleseed. We'll get onto more advanced topics over the coming weeks so stay tuned.

We also started to upload some test scenes, you'll find them under Downloads→Test Scenes.

WRECK Sources Released

As promised a month ago, we're releasing the entire source data of WRECK, a short test animation we did to celebrate our acquisition by /*jupiter jazz*/. Read more...

Blenderseed 1.1.3 Released

We just released Blenderseed 1.1.3. This is a minor release improving compatibility with appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-10.

You can download Blenderseed 1.1.3 by right-clicking here and saving the file to disk.

appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-10 Released

We just released appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-10. This release introduces many new major features (camera motion blur, render layers, a Maya-to-appleseed translator and a new BRDF model) and lots of smaller features, tweaks and fixes. This is also the first release available on 64-bit Mac OS X!

Mayaseed Demo Scene

Check the release notes for the full list of changes. Read more...