LA.Blend Meeting Celebrating Blender 4.4

Greetings LA Blenderheads!

Blender 4.4 has shaped up to be an excellent release with numerous new features and improvements. Including: Improved quality / stability, action slots for better animation workflow, new VSE codecs / text editing / performance enhancements, extensions platform now with 500+ addons / themes, better modeling with a pole finder, new tris to quads influencer, more accurate edge / vertex dissolve, updated benchmarking tool, new plane sculpt brush, UI refinements, CPU compositing speed-up, glare node revamp, and VFX Reference Platform 2025 compatibility. And lots to look forward to in 2025!

We have secured a meeting room in Culver City to socialize, share information, and show off cool Blender-based projects. Meeting topics include Blender new features along with AI mesh creation/training, combining normal maps, using Graphite with Blender, and more.

We are shifting the usual time of this meeting to accommodate venue availability and can meet for nearby lunchtime pizza first (click to join our Discord for details). As usual, we will host/record the meeting via Microsoft Teams (click here to join) so you can attend even if you cannot be there in person.

See you soon!

Stirling