Suzanne Awards and Blender Conference animation festival for 2010 were annouced. They are inviting film makers, artists, animators, designers or scientists to submit their works to be awarded in 3 categories,

1. Best short film
2. Best character animation
3. Best designed short film

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nawabz wrote us about a nice video tutorial by David Ward from BlenderCookie.com. The video started by adding the default human meta-rig template then adding basic IKs for the arm and leg and a fews constraints to the palm and fingers to make them form a perfect fist. The tutorial uses b-bone for nicely twisting forearms, spine and neck. Check out the video from his site.

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Doug Hammond, the author of LuxBlend25 has compiled a screencast showing some of its core features and how well it integrates LuxRender into Blender 2.5.

Thanks Doug!

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Lukas Tönne is bringing the node system to the next level, by representing almost everything as nodes. From his previous work, his goal seems to be the improvement of the particle system but this new improvement won’t limit itself to that as it is going to be very useful in the other areas.

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Here are 2 games with different styles, Monster Truck Hero (PC/Mac) and No, Human (iPhone). Both games are Unity based.

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An enjoyable little time-waster: test your Blender 2.5 knowledge with a Blender quizz. Right now there are four quizzes to take, and more will appear in the future.

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Reynante Martinez has published 4 very impressive detailed particle tutorials that cover if not everything you need to know about particle system. From getting start with basic parameters for both hair and emitter, into creating advance effect like fire and disintegration of mesh object. He also gave the blend files!

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Many readers sent leading stories of this use of Sintel trailer in a demonstration of a mind reading hardware.

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Blendm3 is a Blender plugin to work with StarCraft 2′s m3 files being developed by Alexander Stante. While animation and exporting aren’t yet supported, they are already in their development goals.

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The developers’ meeting notes this week, only one main topic was discussed, “Blender 2.5x todos and beta release”
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