From the Krita team:

The Krita team is proud to announce the release of Krita 2.4. Krita 2.4 is the second release of Krita that is ready for end users, and the first that is ready for professional digital artists. With many powerful brush engines and unique features as multi-hand and mirrored painting, Krita supports creating concept art, storyboards, textures, matte paintings and illustrations. Krita is already used by artists around the world.

Krita 2.4 adds new brush engines, many improvements to the existing brush engines and new productivity features like mirrored painting, plus important improvements in performance and compatibility with other applications. Ramon Miranda and Timothee Giet have assembled a brand new pack of patterns, gradients, brush tips and brush presets. Artists can exchange all these resources through the Get Hot New Stuff sharing server. Your strokes now can not just be influenced by tablet pressure, but by many more options, ranging from perspective guides to time and distance.

For an in-depth look at Krita 2.4 and more examples of art created with Krita, you can download the About Krita 2.4 PDF. For reviewers, the Krita press kit contains the PDF plus high-res screenshots featuring artwork and new features.

Krita 2.4 is already packaged for many Linux distributions, and there is an experimental installer available for Windows as well. Check the Download page for more information.

With this release, we are also releasing the contents of the Comics with Krita DVD. You can watch the tutorial videos on Timothee's Youtube channel, or download the entire contents using BitTorrent (or grab the torrent directly). You can also support Krita and order the physical copy!

Check out their dA group or art forum, where you can see some nice artwork!

Hey guys!

I am Zsolt from Freezing Moon, and I'd like to ask you a simple question:
What was the most common issue for you, the biggest problem really, when you started modeling with/using Blender? Let it be the old-school 2.49, or the awesome new 2.6, or even an entirely different modeling app!

(We can't really help with other modeling package's technical stuff, so if it's technical, stay with Blender questions).

My biggest issue was, that how much tris/polys can I use for a game object? Another one is still bothering me sometimes: how to group stuff properly?

If you guys had some questions bugging you, or you still have problems like those, feel free to share your thoughts, lets talk it over! If we get enough feedback, I promise to do an in-depth tutorial video explaining things.



Edit:
I'd like to create the Top 10 newbie questions and issues about Blender 2.5, 2.6 list. So, whatever you came along, saw in forums, or did yourself, don't hold back. (Not having stuff on 0;0;0, applying modifiers all the way, oversizing, orientation problems, etc)