diff --git a/blender/PKGBUILD b/blender/PKGBUILD
index 37ba1df4b..2d9c3cfc2 100644
--- a/blender/PKGBUILD
+++ b/blender/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,36 +1,64 @@
 # Maintainer: UtG  <utg[dot]chakra.linux[at]gmail[dot]com>
 # maintainer: Neophytos Kolokotronis <tetris4@gmail.com
 
+_gitcommit=d42c08
+
 pkgname=blender
-pkgver=2.70a
-pkgrel=3
+pkgver=2.71
+[[ -n ${_gitcommit} ]] && pkgver=${pkgver}.git1.${_gitcommit}
+pkgrel=1
 epoch=1
 pkgdesc="A fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite"
 arch=('x86_64')
 license=('GPL')
 url="http://www.blender.org"
-depends=('libpng' 'libtiff' 'openexr' 'sdl' 'python3' 'desktop-file-utils' 'shared-mime-info'
-         'hicolor-icon-theme' 'xdg-utils' 'glew' 'freetype2' 'jack' 'openal' 'libsndfile' 
-	 'libsamplerate' 'ffmpeg' 'fftw' 'openimageio' 'boost-libs' 'opencollada' 'opencolorio' 'llvm' 'pcre' 'libbluray')
-makedepends=('cmake' 'boost' 'mesa' 'subversion')
+depends=('libpng' 'libtiff' 'openexr' 'python3' 'desktop-file-utils'
+         'shared-mime-info' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'xdg-utils' 'glew'
+         'freetype2' 'openal' 'ffmpeg' 'fftw' 'boost-libs' 'opencollada' 'llvm'
+         'openimageio' 'libsndfile' 'jack' 'opencolorio')
+makedepends=('cmake' 'boost' 'mesa' 'subversion' 'git')
 screenshot=('http://www.blender.org/index.php?eID=tx_cms_showpic&file=uploads%2Fpics%2Fblender_screenshot3_03.png&width=800m&height=600m&bodyTag=%3Cbody%20style%3D%22margin%3A0%3B%20background%3A%23fff%3B%22%3E&wrap=%3Ca%20href%3D%22javascript%3Aclose%28%29%3B%22%3E%20%7C%20%3C%2Fa%3E&md5=cddc8ef0fbe1e90d0d22e78b4911860b')
+options=(!strip)
 install=blender.install
-source=("http://download.blender.org/source/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz")
-sha1sums=('44c597285972a6042f50b6709b6640d688a878d2')
+#source=("http://download.blender.org/source/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
+source=("git://git.blender.org/blender-addons.git"
+        "git://git.blender.org/blender-addons-contrib.git"
+        "git://git.blender.org/blender-translations.git"
+        "git://git.blender.org/scons.git")
+if [[ -n $_gittag ]]; then
+    source+=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}::git://git.blender.org/blender.git#tag=${_gittag}")
+else
+    source+=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}::git://git.blender.org/blender.git#commit=${_gitcommit}")
+fi
+sha256sums=('SKIP'
+            'SKIP'
+            'SKIP'
+            'SKIP'
+            'SKIP')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
+
+  git submodule init
+  git config submodule."release/scripts/addons".url "${srcdir}/blender-addons"
+  git config submodule."release/scripts/addons_contrib".url "${srcdir}/blender-addons-contrib"
+  git config submodule."release/datafiles/locale".url "${srcdir}/blender-translations"
+  git config submodule."scons".url "${srcdir}/scons"
+  git submodule update
+}
 
 build() {
-  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-v$pkgver"
+  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
   
-  [[ -d build ]] && rm -rf build
   mkdir -p build && cd build
 
-# enable again -DWITH_OPENCOLLADA=ON when 2.71 is build!
+  # enable again -DWITH_OPENCOLLADA=ON when 2.71 is build!
+  # Still does not work. Does opencollada need a rebuild or a new version?
   cmake .. \
     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
     -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
     -DWITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE=OFF \
     -DWITH_PYTHON_INSTALL=OFF \
-    -DWITH_OPENCOLLADA=OFF \
     -DOPENIMAGEIO_ROOT_DIR=/usr \
     -DWITH_GAMEENGINE=ON \
     -DWITH_JACK=ON \
@@ -38,20 +66,25 @@ build() {
     -DWITH_CODEC_FFMPEG=ON \
     -DWITH_CODEC_SNDFILE=ON \
     -DWITH_CYCLES=ON \
+    -DWITH_LLVM=ON \
+    -DLLVM_VERSION=3.4 \
+    -DLLVM_STATIC=OFF \
     -DWITH_FFTW3=ON \
     -DWITH_MOD_OCEANSIM=ON \
-    -DPYTHON_VERSION=3.3 \
+    -DWITH_OPENCOLLADA=OFF \
+    -DPYTHON_VERSION=3.4 \
     -DPYTHON_LIBPATH=/usr/lib \
-    -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=python3.3m \
-    -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/python3.3m
-
+    -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=python3.4m \
+    -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/python3.4m \
+    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE="-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -DNDEBUG" \
+    -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE="-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -DNDEBUG"
   make
 }
 
 package() {
-  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-v$pkgver/build"
+  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}/build
 
   make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
   python3 -m compileall "${pkgdir}/usr/share/blender"
+  python3 -O -m compileall "${pkgdir}/usr/share/blender"
 }
-