Smokescreen

Blender 2.5 is coming. I've been exploring the alpha version on the Blender website: both exciting and frustrating. Not all the features from 2.49 have been activated yet, there still seem to be a lot of bugs, on my system the program crashes every other time I hit "render" and some of my favourite features, including the telepathic spacebar (which always used to give you exactly the submenu you were looking for) don't seem to be included.

On the other hand the advances are looking great. Having struggled in the past to create smoke and fog using the particle system I'm enjoying playing with the new smoke simulation:

They Lurk

The Sci-Fi Gene blog will be 1 year old on the 23rd October. It's been a good year. I'm also currently gathering a crew for an entry in the Movieum's zombie-themed 48 Hour Film Challenge next weekend - more on that story later.

For now, here's the result of slightly too much time with Blender and Voodoo: