Eric Back, the author of the MOSAIC plugin for Blender, has created a stunning example of the interoperation of Blender and Aqsis via MOSAIC. He's produced a fantastic animation showing depth mapped occlusion to great effect.

UPDATED: The Windows installer has now been fixed, with all downloads now updated as of 29/09/08!

Thanks to a lot of hard work by many developers around the world, and a focus on more frequent updates, Aqsis 1.4.1 has been released!

Aqsis 1.4.1, due next week, will be made available as a 'Universal' binary for OS X users... meaning a single disk image (*.dmg) is all you need, irrespective of architecture.

After a great deal of effort on the part of many people, we can finally present the latest stable release of Aqsis, 1.4.

This is a very significant release, including some major changes to functionality such as a complete rewrite of the texturing system, a new framebuffer, and many many more changes and fixes.

We've also managed to work closely with some key industry players to ensure Aqsis works well with the tools that the major studios rely on, such as Massive.

The final release date for 1.4 has been set:

Monday 21st July!