Instal Blender 2.74 Di Ubuntu/Linux-Mint, What's News?

Blender, sebuah program animasi 3D yang bersifat open source yang memiliki video compositor dan integrated game engine yang tidak diragukan lagi. Beberapa waktu lalu Blender telah merilis versi terbarunya yaitu versi 2.74. Tepatnya versi tersebut di rilis pada 31 Maret 2015.

Pada versi terbarunya ini, Blender melakukan banyak perbaikan bug yang terdapat pada versi sebelumnya dan melakukan beberapa penambahan fitur untuk lebih memanjakan penggunanya. Lihat selengkapnya tentang bug fixed yang dilakukan Blender.
Berikut adalah fitur utama pada Blender 2.74:

Cycles Render Engine
Motion Tracking
UV Tools
"Carve" Booleans
Remesh modifier
Game Engine
Collada
Python API
More Features.

What's News ?

Cycles got several precision, noise, speed, memory improvements, new Pointiness attribute.
Viewport has new cool compositing features, outliner now manages orphan datablocks better.
Modeling now allows custom normals, and transferring data layers between meshes!
Massive improvements to hair dynamics and editing tools: a big step forward with more to come…
A new tool "Cavity Mask" was added to sculpting/painting, along with other improvements.
Great memory consumption optimization in Freestyle NPR stroke rendering.
Grease pencil and Game engine improvements, and more…
Several improvements for BVH like making it watertight, solving several precision issues and reducing noise
Optimizations: black world backgrounds are now removed from the shader graph, resulting in great speed improvements, many great memory optimizations
Nodes: new Pointiness attribute for the Geometry node, control texture space of one object by another
New Viewport Compositing brings Ambient Occlusion and Depth of Field right into the Viewport!
View-depth can now be picked using an Eyedropper
Outliner: orphaned Datablocks Mode was added for datablock management, now allows deleting of entire object hierachies, drag & drop objects to groups.
The Node Editor can now show text-blocks in frames
Customizable camera safe areas
Tools: UV handling for Edge/ Vertex Slide was improved; new inverse-square blending for proportional-edit-mode; "Fit Camera View" now works for orthographic cameras as well; new "Split Concave Faces" tool to ensure a convex geometry was added.
Hair dynamics and editing tools were massively improved:

Support for hair collision with meshes
Simulation now happens using volumetric calculations for more realistic results
Strand bending uses a more realistic approach
Controlling of child hair shapes using curve widgets
New "Spiral" kink mode to generate spirals at hair ends
Toggle buttons for render and viewport visibility were added to the particle settings in the Properties Editor

Brushes/Strokes: Improvements to rake and random mapping; Line strokes now support constrains to 45 degree increments
Texture Painting: Support for dithering for painting on byte images; A new tool "Cavity Mask" was added that creates masks based on mesh cavities or hills
A great memory consumption optimization in stroke rendering was done.
Grease Pencil: New Editing tools like copy & paste strokes, duplicating active layer, …; Enable eraser on the fly while drawing with "Continuous Drawing"; Various UI tweaks such as color swatches for Stroke and Fill colors; Grease Pencil data layers are now shown in the Outliner
Improvements to the action management to reduce the cases where unused actions are deleted
Pasting keyframes can now be done flipped
Using a new "Follow" option, the animation editors can now follow the time indicator
A new Auto Tile Size Add-on helps setting up the fastest tile size for Cycles rendering
Import images as planes now works for Cycles as well
POV-Ray Renderer now supports volumetric rendering
FBX and OBJ now support custom normals import
New Python API functions
Blend Files & Libraries: generation and saving of previews for materials, textures, lamps, world and images datablocks.
Background images can now be rotated and flipped.
Compositing: Plane Track Deform, Multilayer EXR nodes improved; memory usage optimization.
Sequencer: Slip tool, Setting proxies improved; preview individual strips (feature back from Blender 2.4x)
Added gamma node support for Blender Internal
Added MotionTracking operator to filter tracks based on how smooth their motion is
Many other small Improvements. In addition to the new features, hundreds of bugs that existed in previous releases have been fixed.

Bagaimana cara instalasinya?

Jika anda menggunakan Ubuntu 14.04 atau lebih tinggi dan atau Linux Mint 17 atau lebih tinggi, anda bisa menggunakan Blender 2.74. Namun, jika anda menggunakan OS yang lebih lama, saya sarankan untuk menggunakan versi sebelumnya. Old Blender.
Berikut cara instalasi Blender 2.74 lewat PPA: