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A look at security in Blender

A few moons ago secu­ri­ty researchers at Cisco made waves in the Blender com­mu­ni­ty after dis­clos­ing a num­ber of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties that could allow an attack­er to run arbi­trary code. All the of them were fixed by 2.79a but it’s still pos­si­ble to make Blender run arbi­trary code. 

Extracting subtitles with FFmpeg

FFMpeg is the swiss army knife of video edi­tors and motion artists world­wide. Let’s take a look at one of the less­er-known features.

Mirage 3.1 launched

Keeping up with the pre­vi­ous deci­sion to make small­er, more fre­quent releas­es here’s Mirage 3.1.

Left Click in Blender: Redux

Many moons ago I shared a keymap I was using to have LMB to select and per­form most actions in Blender. No, I haven’t changed my mind 🙂

Black Light V2

Here’s a new and improved ver­sion of my old Black Light theme. Now with 100% more orange.

Render+ 1.7 released

Christmas comes ear­ly for Render+ users! This new ver­sion focus­es on improve­ments for ren­der jobs based on exter­nal files.

Mirage 3.0 is out now

That’s right! The next ver­sion of Mirage if final­ly out in the wild. It’s been a lit­tle while since 2.1.

Meshes with Python & Blender: Rounded Cubes

Unlike the pre­vi­ous part, this tuto­r­i­al will be lighter on math and focus more on the “Blender stuff”. We will look at adding and apply­ing mod­i­fiers, read­ing a mesh from a file and man­ag­ing complexity.