Autodesk buys SolidAngle, Cycles is even faster, new characters on the Cloud, BlenderPT Conference, Blender Cloud Services announced and much more! What a week, join us for the Blender Institute Podcast #021!

• 00:00 - Intro & Community News
• 01:15 - Webby Awards!
• 02:20 - Cycles Material Vault
• 05:42 - Realistic Lighting in Blender
• 07:40 - OpenToonz Freehand drawing
• 08:28 - Blender XSI preset
• 08:58 - Cycles speedups!
• 12:04 - Cycles Microdisplacement
• 14:33 - BlenderPT Conference 2016
• 18:55 - Autodesk buys Arnold
• 26:40 - How to start our Windows machine in the studio
• 27:53 - Studio News
• 28:14 - New Character: Vincent!
• 34:35 - Sintel updated
• 44:35 - New Tutorial: Wiggly Hair
• 45:38 - Agent 327: Hjalti on Story Development
• 53:10 - Bryan Mills jumps a fence
• 56:40 - Blender Cloud Services Announcement
• 1:02:40 - New doctor in the house: Sybren!

In this podcast: Sergey, Hjalti, Francesco, Andy, Pablo.

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

Leave your questions for the next episode in the comments below!

See you next week!

The Blender Institute team