Blender Institute Podcast #026 - Freddy

Get ready for a fully packed podcast with Blender development news on Cycles, PBR, hair, Alembic, dependency graph updates, new textures and personal texture collections on Blender Cloud, heart-warming stories about turtles and even stormtroopers talk. Welcome to Blender Institute Podcast episode 26!

• 01:30 - Freddy the turtle
• 05:00 - Logging in Python
• 07:40 - Node Wrangler
• 10:30 - Procedural Textures & Bump/Displacement in Cycles Viewport
• 20:05 - Hair in the Viewport
• 24:00 - Dynamic Paint speedup by Bastien Montagne
• 25:00 - Cycles optimization by Brecht
• 25:54 - Dependency Graph
• 29:50 - Tips for fast playback
• 31:05 - Alembic work by Kevin Dietrich, funded by Development Fund
• 34:25 - Blender Cloud: Create your own Texture Library!
• 38:25 - New door and brick textures on the Cloud
• 41:05 - Shaders Library?
• 43:17 - BlenRig Vincent Timelapses
• 43:50 - New Tutorial: Posing Vincent
• 46:53 - Blender Store upgrade
• 49:00 - AMD sent us a Radeon Pro Duo!
• 53:08 - Agent 327 updates: Annecy!
• 1:03:45 - Stormtrooper funfacts
• 1:05:40 - Q&A: Why remaking the Agent model?
• 1:07:21 - Q&A: Assets Library on the Cloud?
• 1:08:20 - Q&A: Sharing Textures
• 1:08:50 - Q&A: Annecy
• 1:09:46 - Q&A: Tutorial on Min/Max mouth rig?
• 1:11:58 - Q&A: Art of Blender vol. 2?
• 1:13:25 - Giant bomb dropped by Sergey

In this podcast: Sergey, Hjalti, Andy, Pablo, Sybren

Music: Blabetté de Metz (Psy-Jazz Mix) - (cc-by-nc) keytronic

Leave your questions for next week!

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