http://www.blendernation.com/2015/09/17/cosmos-laundromat-blu-ray-film-hardcopy-delays/ "Producing blu-ray discs (BD) means you have to make a master that survives the strictest (into the extreme) tests with Sony software in a reproduction factory. No way you can do this with free/open source software. So we tried it with Adobe Encore first – it gives a good working bluray video disc – but to our dismay we found that it’s made in a way Sony doesn’t allow mass duplication. For copying BD in factories, you have to use their own (extreme expensive) authoring sw. We then hired a mastering studio to redo this. They now already ran in issues too; – having a dual layer (50 GB) disc that’s 20% HD video, and 80% BD-ROM is very non standard, sw warnings all over. This now seems to be in a working order though. – films encoded or muxed with Adobe encore also fail to be accepted. They need the original ones encoded by us (Ffmpg). Lesson learned – don’t attempt to make a quick ‘n dirty low cost BD ever. It’s just a ridiculously expensive and tedious medium – and actually the worst medium for sharing data. Anyway, we don’t give up. It still has a certain coolness to get a BD of your own film :) I keep you informed. Currently the mastering company thinks they can get this ready for the factory end of this week. Duplication then can start – but I have no info what the delays mean for the final delivery. Feasible is to expect to ship around 5th of October… I keep you informed, -Ton-"

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http://www.cgchannel.com/2015/02/this-free-blender-shader-turns-3d-models-into-pixel-art/ "Japanese artist Toshihiro Kushizaki has released the Pixel Art Shader: a free Blender shader that should convert any 3D model into old-school pixel art. To render out a pixel art image, you just need a 3D model in .x format and a palette texture, which defines the set of colours to be used; but you can augment the result with standard texture maps, even including AO. The image is generated in BMP format, and the results look pretty good, at least in the demo scene. There’s a detailed online manual, but like the rest of Kushizaki’s site, it’s in Japanese, so if you’re a non-Japanese-speaker, you’ll need to navigate Google Translate. "