Sybren A. Stüvel

Blender's Singularity premiere stream is streaming!

https://www.youtube.com/live/T6rIuMKYxww

#b3d #blender3d #animation #studio #release #premiere

Flamenco 3.9.1 was just released.

Grab yours from https://flamenco.blender.org/download/

It fixes a few issues with Blender Asset Tracer v2, including a case where some files were silently ignored. If you're on 3.9, upgrading is strongly recommended.

Flamenco is Blender's Open Source render farm system.

#Flamenco #YourOwnRenderFarm #OpenSource #devfund #b3d #blender3d

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-05-05-animation-rigging-module-meeting/45215

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #development #meeting #notes #devfund

3 May: International Leopard Day. A day that draws attention to the leopard. Although an all-rounder, this animal is increasingly under pressure. Including due to poaching because body parts are sought after in traditional medicines.

Photo: Africa Wildlife Safaris

#leopard #InternationalLeopardDay #BigCats #cat #CatsOfMastodon

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-04-30-animation-rigging-module-meeting/45139

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #module #meeting #notes #devfund

Today, 23 April, is International Pallas’s Cat Day. A day dedicated to raising awareness of the Pallas’s cat, also known as the Manul.

This animal, which looks so very different from other felines, has a special place in our hearts. I think it’s absolutely adorable! 😻

#cat #PallasCat #Manul #CatsOfMastodon

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-04-21-animation-rigging-module-meeting/45055

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #meeting #notes #devfund

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-04-16-animation-rigging-module-meeting/45024

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #meeting #devfund #notes

Flamenco v3.9 was just released!

It now uses the brand-new Blender Asset Tracer v2 (also just released) for a faster and more future-proof file submission process. And it has some other nice new improvements & fixes.

https://flamenco.blender.org/

Flamenco is Blender's render farm software. Of course Open Source & free forever.

#b3d #blender3d #YourOwnRenderFarm #Flamenco #devfund #renderfarm

🔔 I just released Flamenco 3.9-beta1

Please help testing by grabbing your copy from https://flamenco.blender.org/download/#go-experimental

You can read about all the changes since 3.8 at https://projects.blender.org/studio/flamenco/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md

#Flamenco #YourOwnRenderFarm #OpenSource #RenderFarm #devfund #b3d #blender3d

🔔 Flamenco 3.9-alpha7 was just published 🥳

Please download it from https://flamenco.blender.org/download/#go-experimental and give it a good test.

v3.9 is slated for release soon, and we need all the testing we can get. This version will include BAT v2.0, a complete re-write of Blender Asset Tracer (the code that figures out which files are needed for a render job). This means lots of new things that can go wrong, so your help is most needed.

#b3d #blender3d #flamenco #YourOwnRenderFarm #OpenSource #devfund

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-03-24-animation-rigging-module-meeting/44766

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #meeting #notes #devfund

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes from last week:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-03-19-animation-rigging-module-meeting/44733

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #meeting #notes #devfund

I just released Blender Asset Tracer v1.22, which is going to be the last release in the 1.x range.

It just has a single bugfix compared to 1.21, no new features.

https://pypi.org/project/blender-asset-tracer/

#b3d #blender3d #assets #Python #release #devfund

Upcoming Animation & Rigging features in Blender 5.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwGkQkxnos4

Thanks @cgdive for the nice video!

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #OpenSource #features

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-03-10-animation-rigging-module-meeting/44580

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #meeting #devfund

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes from last week:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-03-05-animation-rigging-module-meeting/44533

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #meeting #notes #devfund

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-02-24-animation-rigging-module-meeting/44425

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #meeting #notes #devfund

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-02-19-animation-rigging-module-meeting/44381

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #module #meeting #notes #devfund

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-02-10-animation-rigging-module-meeting/44314

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #meeting #notes #devfund

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes from last week:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-02-05-animation-rigging-module-meeting/44272

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #module #meeting #devfund

Why oh why does VSCode on Linux manage to render these two + signs so differently?

And the differences are even different depending on the surrounding code, or the indentation level, or whatnot. It's not always the same.

#vscode #fonts #linux #rendering #ugh

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes of this week:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-01-27-animation-rigging-module-meeting/44164

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #devfund #meeting #notes

I ordered two blu-rays from the same seller at bol.com. They were sent in two different packages, but both via PostNL, to the same pickup point.

WHY did one get delivered to the pickup point, but is the other rerouted to a shop much further away? Because it needs my signature, that's why.

The movies in question? Flow and The Wild Robot.

Why would the latter need my sig?

#PostNL #weirdness

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-01-08-animation-rigging-module-meeting/43954

Happy 2026 everybody!

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #meeting #nodes #devfund

I made a little "dynamic DNS" tool for my domains.

https://stuvel.eu/post/2026-01-02-transip-dynamicdns/

I'm moving all my websites, from a hosting party to a server at home. That means it has a dynamic IP address, and now that's updated for me automatically. No more brain required 🥳

My DNS is hosted by @transip , and their API made this super simple to build.

#Networking #SelfHosting #independence #NerdStuff

We verkopen onze banken! Een 2-zits en een 1-zits. Tegen elk aannemelijk bod, kom ze maar halen.

https://link.marktplaats.nl/m2345555271

#marktplaats #tweedehands #NL #Amsterdam

Re-make of the Day of the Tentacle intro, with Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LYPfMBie9Y

DOTT is still one of my favourite games ever 😻

#b3d #blender3d #animation #dott

I'm selling my Valve Index VR headset. It's complete (headset, controllers, lighthouses, power supplies), including two extra face masks. For €490 it's yours, but feel free to place a bid.

Located in Amsterdam, NL, but I can send it wherever.

https://link.marktplaats.nl/m2314990543

#VR #ValveIndex #Marktplaats #SecondHand #SellingStuff #MakingSpace #Gaming #Amsterdam

𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲 #𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲 #𝗗𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗵𝘂𝗹𝗽 2025! 4 Oktober is het #dierendag, daarom verdubbelt DierenLot alle* giften in de collectebussen van de Erkend DierenLot Beneficanten!

Vraag vrienden, familie en vage kennissen via whatsapp, messenger enz. ook een gift te doen! Zie https://dierenlot.digicollect.nl/

Blender Conference was amazing again. I got some really nice responses to my talks as well. Here's the one on add-on development:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP53gDHGiIQ

#b3d #blender3d #bcon25 #BlenderConference #development #bpy

Blender's Animation & Rigging module meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2025-09-09-animation-rigging-module-meeting/42295

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #module #meeting #devtalk

Lunch at Marios, with Blender on my iPad.

#b3d #blender3d #ipad #development #siggraph #siggraph2025 #vancouver

Fish Shell question.

In Bash I can do "rm prefix[0-4]*.md", which means "remove all files that start with 'prefix', then have a digit in the 0-4 range, and end in '.md'". How can I do this in the Fish shell?

The docs (https://fishshell.com/docs/current/fish_for_bash_users.html#wildcards-globs and https://fishshell.com/docs/current/language.html#expand-wildcard) don't mention this type of path matching at all.

#fish #FishShell #unix #linux #questions #NerdStuff

Donating plasma, of course donning some Blender wear.

#donating #plasma #BloodIsLife #b3d #blender3d

Who knows why I see `rustc` running when I run `pip install --no-binary :all: --no-compile jsonschema`?

Shouldn't that be avoided because I said "do not compile"?

Edit: I was using these options in the hope to get an overview of binary vs. pure-Python packages.

#python #development #DependencyHell

Donating plasma

#bloodIsLife #donating #donatingPlasma

Donating plasma this time. 🩸

The machinery is impressive. Feels just as good.

#BloodIsLife #donate #SavingLives

Pretty please with sugar on top, never, ever do this in Python.

Don't use a bare `except:` (it catches more than you may think), and especially never use it to silence errors. This makes bug hunting super, super hard. Instead, catch only those exceptions that you _know_ will be raised, and let the rest bubble up.

#Python #FootGun

New panorama: Halveradsbeek

https://stuvelfoto.nl/panorama/halveradsbeek/

A beautiful area in Gelderland, Nederland

#panorama #NatureIsAwesome #nature #photography #sphere #spherical

Ik verkoop mijn DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone!

I'm selling my DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone!

If you're in The Netherlands, and you're interested, check https://link.marktplaats.nl/m2131158192

#Marktplaats #DJI #Drone #Mavic2Pro #DroneForSale

This is so CUUUUTE!

https://studio.blender.org/blog/baby-suzanne-in-grease-pencil/

#b3d #BabySuzanne #Suzanne #Animation #2DAnimation #GreasePencil

Last Thursday's #Animation & #Rigging module meeting: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2024-05-02-animation-rigging-module-meeting/34493

- Discussion about key selection behaviour.
- Use of namespaces in our C++ code.

#b3d #blender3d #meeting #MeetingNotes #devfund @blender

Yesterday's Animation & Rigging meeting notes:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2024-04-25-animation-rigging-module-meeting/34369

More talk about project Baklava, mostly about merging the new Animation data-block into the existing Actions.

#b3d #blender3d #animation #rigging #devfund #meeting #meetingnotes @blender

Here's the probably-final UI, as a sub-panel of the Copy Global Transforms add-on.

#animation #2d #3d #b3d #blender3d #2s #3s #AnimatingOn2s #devfund

Still one of the better songs & video clips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsbP13xu6k

#MrOizo #FlatEric

And this is why I don't buy cheap electronics. Same for USB chargers, be careful when you buy off-brand ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENFxBLoQjIM

#ItsOnFire #FireHazard #Safety

And another oldie. This was actually a blog post, and I managed to link it into the Electronics section as well.

https://stuvel.eu/post/2020-07-06-simple-amplifier/

#electronics #diy #SharingKnowledge

My electronics projects have a new home! I added a new section to my website so that I can showcase their designs, and explain a bit about the how & why.

The first project: bicycle lights! https://stuvel.eu/electronics/2022-03-bicycle-lights/

#electronics #diy #SharingKnowledge

Yesterday's Animation & Rigging meeting was very nice again. Among other things, we've gone over a whole bunch of operators ported from Animaide.

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2023-08-03-animation-rigging-module-meeting/30552

#Animation #Rigging #Blender3D #b3d #devtalk #meeting