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Tutorial, Texturing a Head with GLSL

Lile Hanson has created an excellent tutorial on using the new GLSL preview feature. He shows you how to combine different layers, by painting them onto your model in Texture Paint mode using the...

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Tour of SIGGRAPH 2008 Expo center and art exhibits

I put together a video tour of the SIGGRAPH 2008 Expo and some of the electronic art to try a give those of you who have never experienced SIGGRAPH a taste of it. The Expo is like a one giant collage...

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Using the MAP Exporter

Would you like to learn how to export your scenes to the MAP file format? This is a format supported by some Id software's games like Quake. If you want to create scenarios for these games with...

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Commercials by Petri Rantanen

Petri Rantanen aka Falgor of Finland,  a freelance animation artist, made  three commercials , one for TV and the internet, and the other for showing in clubs. They where made with Blender and...

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LuxRender 0.5 released

A new version of LuxRender, the unbiased open source render engine was released a few days ago. And this release presents a lot of new features. Here is a word from Tim Suess, about the release and...

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Blender DVD Seminar by Carsten Wartmann

Well if you've been around Blender for a long time, you may recall "The Official Blender 2.0 book put together by Ton and Carsten Wartmann several years back. I know that I wore out that...

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SIGGRAPH 2008 The Making of "Big Buck Bunny": An Open-Source Evolution

SIGGRAPH 2008 Wednesday, 13 August, 8:30 - 10:15 am Petree Hall C In May 2008, the Blender Foundation released their second open-movie project: "Big Buck Bunny," a funny and furry 3D short...

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Call for participation, SIGGRAPH Blender Birds of Feather

The artist's showcase is always a great way to see what other people are doing with Blender. If you like to show work during the Monday afternoon of the Blender Birds of Feather, contact Ton...

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Le Petit Papillon / The Little Butterfly

I was intrigued about this animation by David Liger, it's his first animation and I enjoyed the use of the cartoon edges. An avid Blender user, he created this piece in celebration of the birth...

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Lighthouse by Promotion Studios and Exopolis

Here is a fantastic work from Promotion Studios. Great job guys! James Neale (producer), Stefan Wernik (animation director), Matt Ebb (lighting/shading/td), Tristan Lock (lead modeller), Jeremy...

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Article on Grid Computing Planet about BBB Rendering

There is a interesting article on 'Big Buck Bunny' from the render hardware perspective on a news letter regarding grid computing: "Network.com provided the more than 50,000 CPU-hours...

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Two TV Commercials by Tomas.

Tomas Clergiot of France created two TV commercials. He used blender for the Healts Vision Santé commercial, using Blender to model and map the bottles and kitchen. For the Miss Hawaiian Tropic 2007...

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Spanish Translation of Blenderart Magazine Underway!

We are always happy to support and encourage translations of Blenderart Magazine into other languages. So I am happy to announce that Juan C. García has written in to let us know that he has started...

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Bits of Blender

If your in the process of learning Blender, John R. Nyquist has created a series of videos on tips in using Blender. You can check them out at YouTube.

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Blender Foundation and BBB At SIGGRAPH 2008

Ton Roosendaal of the Blender Foundation has just announced that he will be attending along with Andy Goralczyk and Nathan Vegdahl, the SIGGRAPH 2008 conference. It's finally on the official...

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Note from Shawn Kelly, cofounder of Animation Mentor and senior animator at ILM

Just wanted to send a big hello to all you Blender Nation folks! I had the opportunity to meet Ton Roosendaal last year at Siggraph. While we were talking, I remember mentioning that with the...

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Eunice Park of Animation Mentor now on BlenderNation

I'm happy to announce that Eunice Park of Animation Mentor will be writing for BlenderNation about the industry and as a liaison to AnimationMentor.com. She will be giving us first hand...

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Dunga The Caveman

This animation by Jorge Rausch is short, at only 33 seconds long but a very funny gag. Also check out his Negrito Returns. I don't know what he's saying, but it's commical just the...

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Introduction to Nodes

Apollos has two well written tutorials for using nodes on his site. You can check them out at at BlenderUnderground

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Norwegian Blender site

Gaute Neslein Korsnes wrote to tell us about a Norwegian blender community site. Blender3d.no. It's certainly fun to see all these Blender sites popping up around the world. I was just looking...

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Free models from Montage Studio

We all know very well the great tutorials from Montage Studio. And now they are offering some free models to download as well! The first one is a male body model. Here is a description from Jonathan...

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Blender DVD training: Creature Factory by Andy Goralczyk

This extensive tutorial set, created by the renowned Blender artist Andy Goralczyk, teaches artists how to craft a fully finished 3D animated scene. Tracking the evolution of an idea from creation to...

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Llorona Project

News release from Oscar Alvarado of Mexico: "This is an animated short film inspired by Mexican folklore and people's cult to death. "Llorona" is a typical folklore song that...

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Architectural Visualization Book

Just a quick note on the release of a new Blender book about architectural visualization from one of our editor's, Allan Brito. The book is called "Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings, and...

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Camera tracking tutorial with Blender and Voodoo

Here is a great tutorial on how to do camera tracking in Blender, using the Voodoo camera tracker. The Voodoo software can estimates camera parameters, like position and rotation and reconstructs a...

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Big Buck Bunny Score Available

Jan Morgenstern, the composer for Big Buck Bunny, has released the complete score for Big Buck Bunny. Also completing his first post on the BBB Site! You can check out the whole post by following the...

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Call for articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 17 of Blenderart Magazine.

It's time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 17 of Blenderart Magazine. In this issue we are focusing on the ‘Lights! Camera! Action!’. We are looking for...

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An Animation from Arondix Animations

I think that as an animator that while we all struggle to perfect our craft, one of the hardest things to do, is to come up with a good, complete storyline. What I've noticed over the years is...

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Home Brewed 24 Core Render Farm!

BlendMaster pointed me to this site of a home brewed render farm made from small IKEA filing cabinet. It has an insane 24 cores, running at 2.4 Ghz each with 48 GB of ram. Pretty ingenious method. ...

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B-24 Liberated!

Fweeb reported back in April about how TurboSquid had been served with DMCA takedown requests for 3D models. Well good news from the EFF regarding the B-24 The central mark at issue was the term...

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Render Farm in a Box

The research group ASTRA, part of the Vision Lab of the University of Antwerp, has constructed a computer "made completely from consumer hardware and contains four NVIDIA 9800GX2 graphics cards,...

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PapaSmurf has been busy uploading his video Tutorials!

Theres a wealth of information in video format put out by PapaSmurf. You can check them out at Vimeo. Magic Ball Video SFX:Manual Keyframing and Match Moving SFX: GreenScreen using Channel Key SFX:...

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Big Buck Bunny slated for internet release

From the Blender Foundation: Big Buck Bunny Internet release Friday 30th May, around noon! [UTC/GMT +2 hours] The official release of the BBB movie files will be friday at noon. Will be big fun! If...

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Happy Birthday Blender Materials!

I was in need of a snow material for a current project when I remembered the Blender Materials site. I hadn't been there in quite a while and I found exactly what I needed for this project. It...

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Blender training life-changing in Nigeria

Apart from the fact that Blender is extremely good software, I also view it as a very strong enabling technology: Blender is able to provide people – who would normally not be able to afford 3D...

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Apricot builds available to download

I know you are probably waiting for your Big Buck Bunny DVD or the internet release, but don't forget about the Apricot project, which is still running. If you want to take a look at some of the...

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