After a week of consideration, I have come to the conclusion that it is best for me and the branch to discontinue my involvement in the Freestyle integration work. I am currently trying to focus on my software engineering career and unfortunately cannot devote enough time or energy to the branch.

Tamito has told me that he will continue to bring the branch forward. We have migrated the development blog to http://freestyleintegration.wordpress.com. You can update your RSS reader to point there, to stay in sync with the latest developments.

I do feel now is the right time to pass the torch to Tamito. Even though the overly ambitious plan was not realized entirely, I do feel that our work is in a state good enough to be brought to new heights by him and fresh blood. Sure, a lot of work has to be done to make it more robust and production-ready, but at least Freestyle can run independently without any external bindings within Blender. If anyone is interested in being involved in the branch, please contact Tamito or me. We will be glad to get you started.

I want to thank Ton Roosendaal, Jean-Luc Peurière and Stéphane Grabli, for giving me the opportunity to work on this fantastic project. I also cannot forget all of the beta testers from the BlenderArtists thread who have shared useful bug reports and constructive suggestions, the GraphicAll builders who have made the branch available to the whole world and the Blender development team who have patiently helped me on the IRC. The Blender community, both on the developers’ and the artists’ sides, is made up of many inspiring people. I have learned a lot from this project and I have nothing but thanks for your help and your support.


Carpe diem,

Maxime